The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Jenny J:

Readers might be interested in current debate here in the UK about the introduction of something called (unnervingly) 'The Spine', a nationwide patient records database. The Spine is intended to be accessed by relevant medics only.
Its official website is here: http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/spine

whilst related stories can be found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6167924.stm

and here: http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,,2034557,00.html

As a crazy person, I will be opting out. Years of doctors not bothering to read, completely misunderstanding, and entering misleading - and sometimes bizarre - things into, my paper notes give me reason to believe centralised data is unlikely to be all that useful, and I cling stubbornly to that romantic idea of privacy.

And for the record, I am not the kind of crazy person to kill my classmates. The press (over here, at least) seems to be insinuating just a little that we all are, and this makes me a bit uncomfortable (and yes, I'm well medicated, thank you).

Of course, the idea of buying a gun is pretty alien to me and my friends.

All that need happen now is for the BBC to pick up on all this (and for Making Light to tell us) and TNH might well be responsible for the great Hamster News Snowball of 2007.

Also doubtful of the advantages of training raccoons to be helper monkeys - I can't help but imagine strange nocturnal murders and enslaved humans. In fact, are you sure the raccoons didn't put the idea in your head in the first place, Charlie?

Raccoons? How did I miss that one? Seriously, that is worrying, even to a Brit like me who's never experienced them first-hand. Where are they? Help!

Andrew; Fragano. You've got it all wrong, I'm afraid. I wonder if perhaps you have been reading the Daily Mail and watching Fox (coincidence, or something more sinister?) News, when to uncover the truth you must of course buy and read everything David Icke writes.

It is a truth backed up by All The Facts that the grey squirrels (HQ: Hull) are quickly but quietly taking over England in a bid to eat all the human brains there available, in preparation for the final push into Scotland (which has better brains, but a final stronghold of reds which could prove diifficult to win over). The ducks are in league with the squirrels, having been promised the bits that aren't brains and an end to swan tyranny, but so far the swans, who are the real opposition at least for the time being, are just about managing to thwart the evil squirrel plans. Except in Cambridge, of course.

Stoats have nothing to do with it. Hamsters are apparent newcomers into the war, and we would do well to monitor their activities closely.

(all this, it goes without saying, is part of the master plan of the Jewish lizard illuminati, who aim to sweep in when all the brains are gone and dance round fires naked in peace at last).

Is the apparent year-on-year increase a real effect? If so, should we be worried? Are hamsters taking over Britain? Or perhaps the BBC?

They'd have a job fighting off the squirrels, I suspect.

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