Back East

Some fun, interesting items coming out of some old haunts in the Balkans and Central Europe today:

Finally, Serbia's secret police agency launched its own web site. Guess Slobo wasn't cyber savvy enough to have his spies sporting a site online in his time.

And old pal Matt Welch made me home sick for New Year's Eve in Budapest with his brilliant belated notes about his December 31st.

Gulping down cheap & sweet champagne, even for a short while and mixed with better quality stuff, can lead to acute, projectile-style poisoning, for up to 20 hours. I did not know that.

Talk about drinking like a fish! A few Polish divers have gotten into some hot water for feeding champagne to a fresh water pike in a lake near Opole, Poland.