Weird Coincidence

I tend not to get too weirded out by things, but strange smells permeating Manhattan (I don't know what it is, but I'm sure there's nothing to worry about, says the Mayor)-

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/nyc.odor/index.html

- and dozens of birds mysteriously dead in downtown Austin on the same day

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/austin.birds.ap/index.html

sure strikes me as a little.....odd.

And I will be more than a tad concerned if Bush shows up on the teevee within the next few hours, wearing a gas mask and telling us to go shopping.

Now where the hell did I leave that duct tape?