An avalanche of new taxes was announced today in Athens, Greece. Politicians printed 7,500 separate pages for each one of the 300 members of the parliament in an effort to save our children. Yes, 2,250,000 pages in total, and maybe made some extra copies. Backup. Then, without reading them of course, proclaimed that the taxes will affect only those who smoke, eat in restaurants, drink alcohol and coffee. Nuns on nicorette, as well as select species of herbivorous birds, are expected to survive when the taxman cometh.
In other news: An Egyptair flight crashed in the Mediterranean. “There were only three children on board.” For someone they were the only ones.