The Weight in Grease of a Large Polar Bear

I'm in Dubai International Airport. It's about as unpleasant as it's possible to make a public space. It's full of piped noise, opulent bobbins (remote controlled Ferrari, yes please) and idiots dragging tiny suitcases around (If I owned an airport I'd definitely be a fascist about this - if you can't carry it, it's not hand luggage - check it in). And it's all slightly too close together to accommodate it all, especially the trailing cases. Everywhere there's people knocking things over and treading on each others' suitcases like some kind of vaudeville hell.

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I'd like to dedicate the title of this entry to Don Gorske, who has recently eaten his 25,000th Big Mac. The eating feat alone is fairly impressive but the fact that he kept count makes him a stone cold hero.