Not all that looks like politics is

The subject is an early disclaimer that I'm not politically inclined. I'm not a lawyer, all characters and events -- even those based on real persons -- are entirely fictional, of course your mileage may vary, and you should eat your greens.

Anyway, so a good discussion today was brought up at lunch out of the blue. Usually we'd discuss... errr pretty much nothing, but somehow today we ended up debating whether punishment should be applied to "insane criminals" just as well as their sane counterparts, specially in a murder case where a sane person would've been sentenced to death.

The discussion evolved to include ethics, right and wrong, free will, what it means to be human, the philosophy of imprisonment and the death penalty amongst other things. And the answer is not 42 (a joke if you're a galaxy hitchhiker). Actually we never came up with any answers, as is often with such highly enjoyable and rare debates. I was playing devil's advocate most of the time just to fuel the debate more and it worked. Good mental exercise.

- Waking life
An excellent movie (beware the spoilers on that link), one that can actually be watched many times over always finding new hidden ideas to think about. Warning: it's not for the faint of mind and will make you ponder themes you might have never thought of before.

- Women vote in Kuwait
While this should be good news. I can't help but think of how sad it is that the date this news item is published is in the year 2006.

- Bogs
By complete accident I learned this is not just a typo people make when trying to type blogs. It actually is something.

- Typos
Open notepad (or kpad if you're on linux or something) and type the word ratio. Seriously, try to do it. I can safely bet that at least 90% of the people will type it 'ration' first before correcting it (or not). It is one of the most popular typos out there. It's probably because we're used to typing 'ion' as in "relation", or "nation", come to think of it. 'io' is an uncommon ending for an English word. I find the typo that usually results amusing.

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