Bring out your dead (with a supporting cast of wonder bras & various zealots)
It was another red carpet week for weird, wonderful and, as always, some less than heart-warming news as well.
So, we learned that Japan takes democracy very seriously indeed - and that even people who sniff at statues and ruins and all things cultural, might still enjoy going to Rome for a bit of fresh air.
It was, of course, very sad to hear that the Invisible Man was down on his luck. Still, one man’s blues is another man’s Ode to Joy. So, while the new Linux ad had Bill Gates frothing at the mouth, the rest of us can’t wait to see the rest of their campaign.
Talking of righteous anger, our lovable & loving right wing, fundamentalist Republicans were at it again, denouncing the White House as a save haven for those who want to advertise a loathsome lesbian life-style - which probably means that the Cheney family now finds itself on God’s hit list as well.
Meanwhile, that honorary Republican fundamentalist, president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, mounted his hobby-horse again. No, not another cartoon competition. Since that tasteless escapade didn’t lead to bloody riots, he probably will not bother with another one of those.
(He must have been sadly disappointed though that those war-mongering infidels weren’t as prepared to go out on the streets to commit bloody murder as all those peaceful Muslim hordes had been earlier.)
No, it was just another prediction that the end of Israel was nigh. You’d think his life would be much easier if he just denied the existence of Israel, like he did with the holocaust itself.
(By the way, while it’s true that the German parliament bravely discussed forbidding the Iranian football team entrance to Germany during last year’s world cup, it is rather unlikely that the German government will speak out against this latest attack on Israel.
The last thing the German government now needs is any kind of publicity, that touches on Israel or the Holocaust - not after the well-deserved public relations disaster, that came with the news that the German government couldn’t be bothered to spend their own money on the upkeep of those old concentration camps.)
Ending on a more whimsical note, in Australia it will now be against the law to open a brothel close to a graveyard. At first glance this would seem to be another boring case of NIMBY-ism but it might have been a union thing - a case of protecting the working girl, so to speak.
The life of prostitutes is not exactly one long whistle-while-you-work affair, so the last thing they need would be this new brand of customer.
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