NO NEWS ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Yes, it's quite true: There is no News hereabouts... at least none that I can think of, which might even remotely  be interesting...
Yes it started to snow. In fact, it is snowing like crazy.. It's coming down as if it wanted to catch up with the warm temperatures of the last few weeks. The skiers are literally "frohlocking"... The snow cannons have put down a solid base and now it snows, beautiful large flakes down here and dry, small ones atop of "the Petzen"..
This wonderful mountain which, were I a skier, would be my "house mountain"...:
So that's the News about the weather..
I have not heard of anything particularly dumb spoken by the Pope,
I also haven't heard of anything particularly smart, spoken by any of the politicians, Austrians or Canadians.
So, let me tell you a little story, which harbours a great deal of funny philosophical insight:
(By the way: get yourself the booklet: "Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar.")

Here's the tale:
An 85 year old man comes to his doctor and tells him, that his 25 year old wife is pregnant. He is overjoyed that, at his advanced years, he will be a father again.
The doctor quietly asks his friend to sit down, compose himself, because, he says, "I will tell you a little story: There was a man who wished to go bear hunting. He got all dressed up in his hunting outfit and on his way out of the house he intended to grab his heavy calibre gun, but, by mistake, he grabbed an umbrella.
He was no sooner in the forest, than a huge grizzly bear confronted him. The man raised his umbrella, squeezed off a shot and the Grizzly fell down... dead as a door nail..."
"But", says the old man, "that's impossible... somebody else must have had a gun of which he pulled the trigger and shot the bear"
"Precisely my point" says the doctor.

As I suggested: Go get this little booklet, along with two others:
"Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington" and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates."

Three books, written by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein, explaining Philosophy through Jokes. These publications will give you many hours of bed time reading, allowing you to fall asleep with a smile on your face. ... and that's always worth the price of admission.

that's the way that
Bertstravels
sees it.