When will it stop?

Human beings are probably the most destructive force the planet has ever seen. Not only do we go around killing everything else, but we also kill each other.

It starts with a taunt, then maybe a few blows are exchanged, and suddenly everyone's falling under gunfire. Internationally, it'll be a politically incorrect statement or a country moving to strengthen its military force and other countries are "forced to retaliate". The rest of the world, for all its social and economic divisions, finds themselves in an "us against them" situation.

All it takes is one person to ignite the catalyst of human pride, to give people a cause to fight for and twist it to fit into their own malicious powergames. Soon people forget what they're fighting for - if it wasn't for that one person airing their sentiments every half hour, drilling their masterplan into the putty-like brains of their followers, and even though the fighting wouldn't stop, in the lulls, they'd find themselves staring at the ground, shuffling their feet, with a sheepish look on their face.

The "War on Terror" is a tragedy in the making. It started out because someone didn't like the US, and proceeded to kill thousands of civilians to make that point - that's what I think, the real reason has probably been long lost in the annals of media coverage and political spitfire. Then suddenly religion came into play - the very essence of what makes us human, humanity's only good contribution to our ailing planet. Suddenly it's wrong to practice what you believe in, religion has become the scapegoat, just like so many times before, and the delicate ties of goodwill and tolerance are completely severed.

Naturally it becomes another cause to fight for, though I know of no religion that promotes fighting, that they should "convert everyone under threat to life, and shoot everyone else that doesn't". Then again, no sane dictatorial leader will face the might of the US army head on, so innocent people get pulled into the bloodshed. They become the bargaining chips, the pawns in a ruthless game - the US army cannot protect every single civilian, they even have trouble protecting themselves.

It's not a wonder that extra-terrestrials haven't made contact. We're too busy destroying ourselves to be of any use to them. Lives seem to get cheaper and cheaper with each passing day. There's no such thing as good and bad in a war, no such thing as honour or martyrdom, each person is just as guilty of the atrocities committed as the next, and the violence only serves to bring an unending shame to humanity.

The Looney Saga

There once was a not-so-goodlooking boy, but he play football not badlah. Then Man Utd signed him for a fee large enough to pull three African nations out of poverty. Unfortunately, Man Utd's talent at judging player potential is more like an anti-talent, so like all the flops before him, he'll produce enough hot air to float a ship backed by enough shitty performances to fertilise the whole Trafford pitch (hurhur); at which point Ferguson (if he hasn't got sacked yet) will proceed to throw a shoe at him (throw accurate accurate can or not?) and then Looney will move to Real - who are nothing but a bunch of lucky buggers because they oso cannot beat the small small teams wan.

There he'll spend season after season warming the changing room bench, cleaning Raul's boots, and hoping he'll get to see even one blade of grass (sob sob). Eventually his ass will be numb from all the sitting, and he'll move to Man City citing "irreconciliable differences" (yea rite) to begin fading into obscurity (like David who?).

The End.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people

Three news sources gave three different figures today, but all the same story. A school was taken hostage by terrorists in Russia. The new school year had barely started and teachers, parents, and students were celebrating this. There were no political motives to the celebrations, they just happened to be 'convenient'.

Why do these senseless acts of violence always filter down to the children? 200, 300, possibly even 400 lives are at stake, many of which haven't even begun, all depending on the whims of a bunch of delusional psychopaths. I'm sure our hearts go out to them.