The irony of it all

I was working on an article listing who should be fired over the power crisis and why, while listening to the energy minister explain why nobody should be fired, when my power gets cut and I’m once again reduced to my mobile. Maybe I should have written about why polar bears don’t deserve endangered species status instead. The greens aren’t quite as efficient as our Princes of Darkness. Sponsorships for a notebook computer, UPS and generator will be gratefully accepted. Meanwhile, watch this space. I’m going to go indulge a sense of humour failure at my local. Sing Tom Waits, perhaps: “Warm beer, and cold women, I just don’t fit in…”