It is regrettable that I'm too old to help.

Unfortunately, I've heard from my international blogger friends that such things are happening everywhere.

We cannot bring ourselves to care enough. And sadly, that's the price of political stability and of peace.

But alas, several of the constitutional fixes on offer are designed to serve the interests of those in power.

Such genius in our country runs to waste, a waste, as pitiful, it seems to me, as that of pulling down a star from the firmament for use as a lucifer match.