I have just read a great article in News.Com.AU about a journalist who has been training her husband using animal training techniqes. That is, now when he misbehaves she does not loose her temper any more, she just ignores him. And she has found that this is significantly improving their relationship. The theory goes is that any attention is good attention in a relationship, and the bad stuff will therefore feed on itself. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on your view), being a male I am far more likely to have this tried on me than to use it myself.

Also in the paper is a story how the Vetrans Affairs minister got the wrong impression on POW Camps from watching Hogan’s Heros when he was a kid. In essence the series coloured his view of what prison camp life was like… And didn’t make it sound as bad as it really was.