DIANAPALOOZA!

Seriously, why don't the boys make it a summer world tour?

In the meantime, the media have begun its sister tour, Candle in the Press.

The tour lineup begins with Matt Lauer. Prince William and Prince Harry have granted NBC a television interview, in which Harry skates perilously close to acknowledging the Diana conspiracies:

'I don't know for...for me personally whatever happened that night. Whatever happened in that tunnel. You know no one will ever know,' Harry said in the NBC interview, extracts of which were reported by Britain's Press Association Tuesday.

Aren't the royals supposed to be sticking to the party line, acceptance of the Operation Paget Report?

Ah, well...Prince Henry Charles Albert David Swastika-on-my-party-shirt Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Windsor has never been famous for his decorum.

Ad trailers for the Candle in the Press tour have already included People Magazine's May 24th story on the princes, followed by the article (with Diana's pic on the cover) in the June issue of Good Housekeeping. Then there was the flap with the video of the tunnel crash, which the BBC won. And the band plays on.

Why am I giving the tours blog space? I guess because the Diana saga deserves some coverage here, as it sparked Clyde's first foray into fringe reporting. So stay tuned. It's going to be a long summer.

Ground Zero articles of interest:

Bring the troops home...quarantined, please

More drug-resistant body-invading organisms rearing up:

Acinetobacter Baumannii: Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You

Now dubbed "Supergerms", they spread without warning and seemingly
without official notices since they are infections instead of diseases. The
government is taking advantage of this technicality.

Apparently, "diseases" require official CDC notices, but "infections" do not. What is supposed to be the difference between "infection" and "disease" is beyond my current knowledge, especially since the CDC has whole departments for "infectious diseases".

But the crux of it is that this particular bacterium is showing up in military and veterans' hospitals, carried by patients recently returned from Iraq, and it isn't getting reported to the public.

So first I go to the VA hospital and get an infection, then I come back when I'm dying and they experiment on me. So not liking this.

CDC information on Acinetobacter

It seems Acinetobacter has been around for a while. Are we to assume it's always been resistant to common antibiotics, or did it get that way in recent times?