I think the thing to do is to sock my Gentle Readers with a flurry of short pieces, because I haven’t the sustained time to write long ones. I could, as is my usual wont, gather the short pieces together, but then the compilation note would take a long time to get onto the web, and now that Your Humble Blogger has completed the fifteen-day suspension, it’s important to get the juices flowing again. Ahem.
So, about the two billion rats ... Xinhua doesn’t seem to have made up its mind whether there are two billion rats or two billion mice. The picture appears to show field mice.
In other news, spokesmen for the Province of Hunan said that the Hunan No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court carried out the execution of the Piper. So the children are safe.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.