Like a virgin
It’s been another good week for all the homo sapiens watchers out there in the big blue yonder. We may not make very good TV programmes ourselves but we do make for great TV.
So, in a week that brought us news of an upcoming Lord of the Rings musical and the Lonely Planet Guide’s verdict on Great Britain, we also learnt that at least the UN is now in the Christ business, doing that swords into ploughshares deal - with a heavy New Italics‘ emphasis on ‘deal’.
Last but not least, the joyful tiding reached us that mankind has broken through yet another tasteless sound barrier: the first mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest. Surely, any day now the first mobile phone call from the top of some high rise building will come through:
“Honey, guess what: I’m standing on top of the Trump tower and right now I’m jumping off and it’s aaaallll yourrrrrrrrr faulllllllllllllt…!!!!!!!”
In the meantime, it was yet another lost and found luggage week for the great and the good. While Tony Blair is still kind of lost and Bush lost yet again another popularity poll, Bill Clinton’s statue was erected in Kosovo and John Cleese got honoured in New Zealand.
(Both Bush and Blair could have learnt wise lessons from Belgium’s latest wannabe senator: namely, that it is far better to delegate some things than to be seen doing those dirty jobs yourself.)
Then there were the inevitable stories dealing with man’s biggest obsession: sex. Like the Pakistani Tourism Minister, Britain’s Jeremy Clarkson found out that it doesn’t matter whether you live in a so-called enlightened society or a fundamentalist Hell hole: in either case you get stoned when you say or do something that the ‘moral’ majority disagrees with.
That’s not to say that you can compare free and modern countries in the West with those backwards and evil countries elsewhere, of course. We are superior in every way. We have freedom of speech - and that’s a good thing! Really! No, honestly, it is! We can bring the real world into every living room, through daring and informative TV programmes like this.
Ah well, small wonder even penguins and flamingoes drop out of the heterosexual rat race and go for different lifestyles. Still, to avoid any controversy, it might be better to take one step further and, like this shark, go for single parenthood, the Mary way.
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