Put the round peg in the round hole...

It seems the bulk of my readers have been arriving at this humble site via google. The search phrases most commonly employed have been "Johnny Wilkinson", "naked" ; "Johnny Wilkinson, nude" and, for some bizarre reason, "bartop dancing in Singapore".

Yes, quite.

Moving swiftly on... two short scenarios, not, in any way, of course, related to one another :)

Imagine you are a world-class politician endowed with the bountiful blessings of whatever multicultural Gods that inhabit the lush, verdant green sidewalks, and regularly-spaced refuse disposal units which line the streets embracing the gloriously shiney skyscrapers upon which your nation's everyday existence depends have granted you.. In other words, imagine you are playing "Black and White" meets "Sim City" :

1) Cunning linguists, fellonous fellatio, ad nauseum.
See post below for background.
Do you :
a) consider changing the all-encompassing law against "unnatural sex-acts", deemed archiac and outmoded by various members of the general public, and numerous hotshot legal eagles to boot.
b) maintain that the law is the law, and that changes to the law may bode poorly for the your country's future, citing the dangers of the ever-present slippery-slope argument : laws balance on the shoulders of other laws, and the fall of one law may bring the entire lot cascading down into the cesspool of immorality, decadence, anarchy and other things inherent in societies beyond your borders.

No question about it. We choose option b. The law is the law, we will neither bend nor break, and never shall we yield. What are laws if we go around changing them?

2) Slash, crash and burn
Disgruntled pilots of your Nation's Major Airline, in the aftermath of post-WorlwideKillerVirusSpreadByCockroaches paycuts and retrenchments rebel against your decision to further dock their pays by ousting their union leaders, who you have invested large amounts of time and money intimidating, cajoling and generally re-programming into becoming nice obedient pawn... err knight protectors to your ever-worthy visions of National Progress.
Do you :
a) respect their decisions which appear within the limits of the law, and urge for peaceful and mutual resolution to what appears to be a proverbial breakdown in communications between the executive board and staff of an apolitical company?
b) Denounce the traitorous heathens who have dared to challenge their authority-figures as subversive elements out to bring forth the four horsemen of the apocalypse, invoke chaos and terror to the nation, and pretty much Do in their Country, and threaten to Do them In first? (Bringing new meaning to the term "DIY")

pause. Naturally, we choose option b) - change the law, prepare to de-register the pilot's union, and clean out the nice little four by four jail cells for the uncouth, uneducated, unwashed rabble-rousers.
    # Re-minisce denies liability.12/07/2003 02:29:00 am