How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
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Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
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How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
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Why is it that people say they ‘slept like a baby’ when babies wake up like every two hours?
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If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
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Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?
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Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
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Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?
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If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
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If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
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Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your butt?
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Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
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And finally, if you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered rape or shoplifting?

 

The speed at which the financial and economic crisis has happened is mind-boggling. That the origins of the crisis is pure greed is no longer a secret. However, the bigger and the more devastating fall out if greed would be a climate crisis. Unfortunately, the speed of that would be even more mind-boggling. Don’t want to sound like a doomsayer (and would want to be proved wrong) but hopefully some governments would put their act together.

 

We are already talking about climate refugees. Maldives has become the first country in the world to use the term. The highest point of Maldives is 2.5 mtrs high, while the average is just 1 metre. A small rise in the sea level and wipe out the beautiful island of Maldives.

I was having dinner with folks the other day in a really nice restaurant. Next to us was a big group of people sitting and merrily enjoying themselves. I assumed that they would pay heavily, but did not know that they would literally do so. At the end of the dinner the host took out few bundles of notes, counted them on the table and paid off. More than the money, I was amazed at his money counting speed, which would put a cash counting machine to shame.

Good formula! No plastic, no accounts. No accounts, no income tax. No income tax, no government. No government, no hassles. One to oneself. And it shall be great fun.

I, ever the perennial plastic guy would keep being jealous. Can’t even give up plastic money, even though its environment unfriendly, and politician unfriendly. So no chance to see money only in demat form in my life time.

Sometimes I wonder what is really required to implement change. We bloggers and netizens can’t do much ourselves, except giving our opinions on everything under the sun. So here is another one.

 

Can somebody force environment ministers and environment department bureaucrats to travel without air-conditioned cars? They could also be asked to take a dip in the Holy Ganges, every once in a while. I am almost sure that there would actually be no need for any conferences to save the environment and poor Greenpeace (my fellow members) shall be really at peace.

 

I continue to have a premonition that the climate crisis might surprise everybody with its suddenness, which would put the suddenness of the economic crisis of 2008 to shame. Pray that I am proved totally wrong.