A Man With a Hammer

"To the man with a hammer every problem seems like a nail"
Mark Twain, as quoted by Newsweek On Air (which I listened on the podcast during my Monday’s run)

Radio plays in the car on the way to work. This morning the operatic pop singer Josh Groban calls the station from one of his tour stops somewhere in Europe. He is often a guest on the show and has taken quite a liking to the hosts Mike & Erin. Besides, it's all great promotion for him. He is a likable kid. But, oh boy, is he talking fast! Like he needs to compensate for all the slow, mellow melodies he delivers on stage. His words come out welded to each other without the space between. I wished he would sing out in his melodious way whatever is that he's trying to say, so I could stop straining to un-weld his words and grasp the meaning.

It’s amazing how some news can grate on your nerves. There has been a cyclone which ravaged Myanmar this past weekend. Another freak weather tragedy, just like the freak tornado in Arkansas last week, which came way too early for the tornado season and killed a few unsuspecting Arkansans. Myanmar used to be known as Burma before its ruling military junta turned it into Myanmar with a single wave of its magic wand, or rather magic tank. The country is in densely populated southeast Asia and could count on higher numbers of casualties than Arkansas. But tens of thousands? And we find out about such astronomical number FOUR days later? Because the military guys, for unknown reason, decided to keep the numbers under the cover, until they became too big to conceal! At least, the ruling gang finally accepted offer of foreign help, which they declined last time when tsunami swiped the country.