I apparently have a sinus infection, which is causing me all sorts of issues.  So I'm loaded up on antibiotics and staying on the couch for the weekend.  A day and a half in, and I'm feeling much better though.  

And at pretty much zero cost for exams and meds, I'm liking me some Kenyanmuslimsoshulizm at the moment.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

The name of the game was "Vem Aí A Troika," or "Here Comes the Troika." It's a card game with a darkly comic message about the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank, and their hand in Portugal's economic crisis.

When it came out in November, its creators, one of whom is a former university math professor, promised: "Now you, too, can bring the country to ruin." ...

In Vem Aí A Troika, players amass money and power in the form of "euro" cards and "assets" cards representing wealth socked away in offshore accounts. So-called event cards representing elections, general strikes or tax hikes -- each one an opportunity to shore up capital and influence -- determine the flow of each round. Until, that is, the fateful moment when the Troika card is drawn. With that, the game ends. The winner is the player left with the biggest bounty.

Swiss company chief executive officers, including Roche Holding AG's Severin Schwan and Nestle SA's Paul Bulcke, earn some of the world's highest salaries. That may soon change.

With more than 100,000 Swiss citizens having signed a petition to limit "fat-cat" pay, voters will decide at a March 3 referendum whether top executives should have their compensation set by shareholders. While a poll shows a majority may vote yes, the industry's lobby group warns that it will drive out tax-paying companies and is campaigning for a softer counter proposal.

"If you have this kind of limitation on executive pay, why should an American company put their European headquarters into Switzerland," Philip Mosimann, CEO of Bucher Industries AG, a Swiss maker of street sweepers with a market valuation of 2.1 billion francs ($2.3 billion), said in an interview. "They would leave. I'm certain of that."

The vote is the brainchild of Thomas Minder, a Swiss lawmaker and managing director of herbal toothpaste business Trybol AG, whose petition blames highly-paid "fat cats" -- "Abzocker" in German -- for the financial crisis. If successful, the proposal will give shareholders an annual ballot on executives' pay and block big payouts for new hires and for managers when they leave companies.

Drinking large quantities of Coca-Cola was a "substantial factor" in the death of a 30-year-old woman in New Zealand, a coroner has said.

Natasha Harris, who died three years ago after a cardiac arrest, drank up to 10 litres of the fizzy drink each day.

This is twice the recommended safe limit of caffeine and more than 11 times the recommended sugar intake.

Coca-Cola had argued that it could not be proved its product had contributed to Ms Harris' death.