Glancing at the local paper today I saw a piece on how some organisation intends to renovate the street I live in. In a sense that's a good thing. With a new shopping centre planned to replace the derelict college buildings almost next door, it hardly makes sense to build an expensive flagship development next to a run down street full of empty and vandalised offices.

Trouble, they intend to use offenders to paint properties and build flower boxes. Oh great. So the local burglars get a chance to see what everyone has in their house? I've no doubt that the little angekls who will eventually cause a crime spree in the street will offer the excuse that it was our fault for owning stuff.

Genetic Attraction

One item I saw today is about a man and his daughter having a child together. Apparently she wanted to track down her long seperated father and once they met, they... erm... got acquainted. Now they deny incest and claim instead to be victims of 'Genetic Sexual Attraction'.

Well I can understand them being happy to be re-united, but let's be blunt, regardless of mutual arousal in the heat of the moment they are still supposed to be responsible law abiding adults. That means sex was not compulsory, irrespective of how much they wanted to do it. Genetic attraction or not, they knew who each other were, and so committed incest. Sorry, but they did.

Not so many generations ago this would have been a dark family secret covered up and reducing peoples lives to misery. These days they offer excuses to the worlds media.

Having A Nice Day

It's no good moaning that I haven't found a job today, or that I haven't helped an old lady across the road, or returned some errant feline to its desperate owner. It's a nice sunny day. So I'm off to enjoy it.