-last week,hawkers protesting in Mombasa burnt down a fire-truck.& this was not your usual fire truck.its computerised & is valued at 50 million.what an investment,a 50 million computerised fire truck that cant put itself out.i guess it wasn't programmed to Stop,Drop & Roll.

-the Tamil Tigers finally admitted that their leader is dead.they didn't admit earlier 'cos they thought it was embarassing that he had died of a heart attack after watching the American Idol finale.

-Maendeleo Ya Wanaume are claiming that 48% of married men admitted to pollsters that they're abused in their marriages.of course this shocked everybody.none was more shocked than Chris Brown.they said that the most abused are professionals,including politicians,lawyers,doctors & at least one president.

-remember that 23 year old Kibera boy that was shot during the post election violence?he's been in the news alot lately.alot of of people really responding to his plight now after it was highlighted in the news.support is pouring in from everywhere.people are pledging food,cash & to offset his medical bills.& Maddona offered to be his girlfriend.

-& the trial of the captured pirate is going on on New York.Interpol describes Pirates as with just basic education,poor & with access to guns.which is also how we describe our police force.

-North Korea has been testing nuclear missiles this week.& those missiles did a good job at knocking the Swine Flu stories off the headlines.I think all these things that are supposedly supposed to kill us are all in the minds of hypochondriac western media editors.last week we were all supposed to be killed by a disease that came from the union of a pig & a pigeon & now we're all going to be killed by the short crazy guy with heavy glasses,the same guy the same media reported a couple of months ago was dead.

-PLO Lumumba has released a book.i believe its called Conglomerates Against Obfuscate Maleficence & Barbiturate For Dummies.

-& back to Maendeleo Ya Wanaume,the spokesman had also called for the removal of the statue of a nude boy at the High Court entrance.this drew alot of interest.Madonna is already trying to adopt it,some catholic priests want to turn it into an altar boy,& Michael Jackson is asking if he can borrow it for the weekend.

-& yesterday there was a special edition of Larry King Live where all of the top 10 American Idols were interviewed by Ryan Seacrest.he got deep with the questions.he asked Anoop about his initial friction with Kara.he asked Lil' Rounds about coping with the genres.he asked Randy about the future of Idols,& then he asked Adam if he could borrow his lipgloss.

-& there's a new crime wave involving a group of people posing as police & robbing people after tricking them into believing that they need them to help out with investigations.the public is being warned to be wary of these fake cops.the commisioner is educating how to tell a real cop from a phoney.if a real cop wants you to help in investigations,they shoot you first.

-& Kimani Maruge,the world's oldest pupil got baptised over the weekend.i respect this guy,he's reaching milestone after milestone.i mean he enrollrd in school,can now read,learnt to write his name.achieved his dream of finally reading the bible.i think losing his virginity is next in line.