Ok ok,

I’m sure my avid readers have been absolutely devastated at my lack of posting of late.

Truth be told, between general life business, episodes of cold, and bouts of insomnia (I know, insomnia should add to the posting, not detract from it), I just haven’t had a lot of time left open for posting. Added to this has been my general weariness with world events.

It is not that I lack opinions on the cartoon cacophony that has deafened both mass media and blogs these last few days, but in many ways I simply feel like everything that can be said has been said and everything that can be done are still left undone. I mean, what’s new right?

Firstly there’s the Bee movie. It is truly a starling example of a B-movie. People are not bees and we do not have a hive mind. I certainly don’t feel just funny because the movie makers think it is. Spielberg is still dreaming about all things but possibilities and Jerry Seinfeld should have come back from season 10 instead. I really want to meet the man, more to give him a big “I TOLD YOU SO” more than anything else.

Nuke baddies are still active in the fair world and they are getting stronger. I just cannot get enough of them and if you ask me they are not getting enough air time on TV. The political situation in Pakistan is becoming really embarrassing and the next time I hear about Pervez, I am probably gonna nuke him.

On the light side, Elton John (Sir) is still gay, not to mention cool and rocking and Beckham still sucks.

It has become obvious that a certain country has just finished conducting a Summit a few days back. Its probably just a huge giant BS that is a socialising opportunity for the bigwigs and will not do anything useful for anyone.

I would like to question the motive of such a preposterous proposition but I shall hold my tongue in check, in fear of having my blog frozen, my family deported to Alaska, and me being assigned to a correction facility for a lifetime voluntary service. Add this to the recent freak deaths that occurred in the Cambodia dragon boat saga, which sucked by the way, and I just feel a little overwhelmed.

Nor is the first time, either that I have felt overwhelmed or that I have had to step back from news consumption simply because I had to give my mind a break. It is difficult being in a position of so little power with so great an inclination to make a difference.

Cheers.

ps: Still waiting for new powerhouse notebook.

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Ok ok,

Let’s say you’re the manservant to a really really rich guy who lives alone. The really really rich guy dies in his sleep. You know he owns a large piece of priceless antique that no one else has seen for a few hundred years, and you have access to it.

If you steal the piece of antique, sell it, and give the money to a charity organisation (exclude NKF please … ) or maybe a village in vietnam, you can feed an entire population for a year. The village would otherwise starve. If you don’t steal the antique, it will go to his surviving family who has so much money they won’t care about it.

Obviously it is illegal to steal the antique and feed the starving village in Vietnam. But do you have a moral obligation to commit the crime for the greater good?

And if so, do you likewise have a moral obligation to steal anything else you can get your hands, from other really really rich dead guys or living neighbors, if you can use the stolen property for the greater good?

ps: Helping yourself does not count.

ps2: Helping your mother does not count too

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