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I used to have a fair measure of respect for AA Gill. His writing style is interesting, as, I thought, was his attitude to the world that he finds himself in.

However if this story is true;

Gill wrote: “I took him just below the armpit. He slumped and slid sideways. I’m told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life. They die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out.”

And this really is the sole reason that he shot that Baboon;

“I wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger. You see it in all those films: guns and bodies, barely a close-up of reflection or doubt. What does it really feel like to shoot someone, or someone’s close relative?”

Well then I cannot remember ever losing my respect for anyone as fast as I have just lost my respect for AA Gill.

That’s all, really, I have nothing further to add.

“Confusion is always the most honest response.”

- Marty Indik.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

- Blaise Pascal

By coincidence, I was watching the news last night just as the story broke that Michael Jackson had died.

To begin with, like most people I guess, my reaction was mainly; “How? Why?”, and then…”Wow”.

I wasn’t really expecting to have much more of a reaction than that, I’m pretty realistic, and people die. That’s the way it goes.

Yet I did have much more of a reaction, and I was surprised at myself by just how deeply saddened I was at the news. So I thought about it some more, and only then I realised that, at forty-five years old, I have known of, listened to, and danced with Michael Jackson for forty years.

Forty years. Since I was just a mere five years old. No wonder I found his death such a genuinely sad event.

So RIP, MJ, and thankyou.

“Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means … as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country’s dignity and sovereignty even a bit,” the state-run Minju Joson newspaper said.

You know, no matter how hard I try, I find it extremely difficult to believe that North Korea, whilst threatening a ‘merciless’ nuclear war, would tack on the end of it those two little words ‘…a bit’.

When threatening a nuclear war, you just wouldn’t say that, would you.

I mean, seriously, they really said ‘…a bit’?  Nah, it never happened.