The Age Of Farce
Sarath is looking up at the headline aghast for a reason, read it again if you don’t see. This is frontpage Island
The day I get appointed to the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons is the day I get my prostate checked. Dudes sound like the SuperFriends, or the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. As wise as they might be, I can’t take anyone who calls themselves eminent that seriously. Nor Excellency, or Right Honorable either. But I digress. I get these NGO reports cause Prabhakaran forwards them to me with my kotiya check. Pretty much everything I get from the NGOs boils down to ‘OMIGOD THINGS ARE FUCKED’. With more interviews, and a five paragraph intro containing 18 acronyms I don’t know. Not to poke fun at people trying to help, but the situation is just tragicomic now. NGOs are called traitors by the government and they don’t have access to the North and East. And Human Rights Watch just sits and watches anyways. The NGOs may have a bit of money, but they have no power; making them about as useful as a knife in a gun fight. Anyways, the IIGEP issued a statement yesterday. It was something along the lines of, ‘We have to go to the bathroom’.
What they actually said is that we’re getting nowhere, the government is full of obstructionist douchebags, and we’re leaving. Really, what can they do. The international community can’t do anything about Darfur, and Sri Lanka is nowhere near that fucked. It’s seriously not that bad. It sucks if you’re Tamil, but if you’re Tamil you somewhat tacitly support the LTTE, so sucks to you. It’s all very Karmic. We’re Buddhist.
My main problem with the ‘International Community’ is that their names are too long and acronyms too forgettable. It’s a bunch of diplomats trying to do Rambo’s work. The UN would be better off finding and training a superhero, perhaps with a talking car. Instead you get earnest kids who have neither guns nor muscles, nor bowie knives and grit. What they attempt to do here is beyond me.
At least we have the media. For entertainment.
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This is highly dubious. Miss Travel is a travel/social networking site that connects ‘Generous’ and ‘Attractive’ travelers. To, like, travel together, I guess. It all seems a bit like arranged prostitution and trafficking. This is part of a broader online trend to connect rich men to younger, attractive women. Sites like 
Sri Lankan domestics never say anything, they just stop coming. My maid just stopped coming and when I finally pressed her she said I needed to get a washing machine. I was hoping to ride this one out, but I’ve run out of underwear and I have no choice. I finally caved and bought a washing machine, from 
There’s nothing wrong with pornography, but there’s a lot wrong with porn. Nothing wrong with watching people have sex, but too often that sex is brutal, senseless and coerced. I mean how many couples are coming on each others faces every day? Hence, philosopher king Alain de Botton – after calling for a 
Sri Lanka is going to start offer 
‘Pubic Money’ and ‘Blow Jobs’ kinda sums it up!
that’s what you get in our “hell” – public money being used for blow jobs…did you see the article in today’s mirror about the “ltte spy networks take a beating”
Kind of proves the point – cop frequenting a whore becomes one of the ltte’s informants – public money being blown for information…
The blow job thingy was on Daily Mirror, is it?
TSVP-LPEV Lecture: “Righting Wrongs: Challenges Facing Human Rights Investigators in Sri Lanka”, a lecture by Prof. Bruce Matthews (Acadia) recounting the experiences of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), an international panel of experts invited to monitor the investigations of the Sri Lankan Presidential Commission of Inquiry into recent human rights violations in that country, on March 25, 2008 @ 6:00 PM at Hart House, University of Toronto. For more information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11141796127.