Sometimes, now and then, wonderful surprising things happen in the world around you - End of Apartheid, Berlin Wall down, Freedom and democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq (OK last 2 tentative, and not such good examples! )

It just shows you - there IS hope for this species.

Now it would be nice if we could have a Middle eastern solution, a cure for Aids - and a safe, carbon neutral, infinite energy source.

If anyone needs a little luck at the moment its Morgan Tsvangirai - he is a very brave man - and best wishes for him and Zimbabwe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6448559.stm

Mugabe is living (and extreme) proof that it is essential for a constitution to have the mechanism to kick out its leaders after a time limit or max number of terms. He seemed the benign lesser of many evils (for a military dictator) to start with - but soon became Mass Murderer. We have enough evidence that sooner or later, and to a MUCH lesser degree, even the democratically elected ones get too big for their boots (MT and A(T)B on this side of the Atlantic - and for Gods sake - no SONS! )

No, this world will never ever be boring