2011 is shaping up to be quite a year isn’t it? There has not been a dull moment since we all counted down on New Year’s Eve. News, news and more news … so many options; what can I choose to write about this week? Hmmmm. I could so easily bash our politicians about the fiasco known as the public ‘Manatt’ enquiry and chastise them for taking up so much media time with a reality show that could only be described as a comedy of errors.

Oh the stand up routines that can be drafted from this saga are exponential; re-enacting all the sweating witnesses, frantic gulping of water and the political side-stepping of direct responses to extremely long- worded questions are just laying in wait like ‘turn’ Julie mangoes for the picking, but I won’t.

Firstly, everybody else is writing about that topic so I refuse to become another uneducated, loud voice in the wilderness and secondly, I know that all this chatter, called an enquiry, will go to the same place the $18 million that disappeared from the police vault went some years ago … into thin air. So why harp on about it? Naw, just a waste of time and my creative energy.

As one of our very honourable ministers said whilst he sat on the witness stand “I shall take leave of myself” (laughed until I rolled on the floor on my posterior), I will do just that and rely on the powers that be to make sense of what I think is utter nonsense. Maybe my brain is way too vapid to absorb all of the figures, facts and irrelevant data being presented in such an elaborately drawn-out fashion … yes, I think that is it indeed.

Moving forward, I see that Egypt has wormed its way back into the headlines. Years ago not many nations could best Egypt in topping the charts with breaking news. Deposed pharaohs, Red Sea partings, oil wars and nation building, made them infamous. However, in more recent times, they kind of just sat back and took a break from it all, leaving places like Iraq, USA and Jamaica to run with it. Well, it appears the coffee break is over, because the Egyptians have spoken and they didn’t whisper. In a loud voice they told their dictator to study Mr Vegas Chapter three verse four and do the dance called Tek weh uself. I didn’t even see it coming, well not surprisingly since I don’t follow current events, but they just rose up and took to the streets in a unified voice and low and behold the mighty has fallen.

I wonder if I could organise something like that in Jamaica and oust our leaders when they start getting too cocky and self-serving? I foresee one major problem with my plan from the get-go. Egypt is rich and can afford several weeks of rioting and loss of productivity, poor little Jamaica… it really wouldn’t be advisable for us to pull such a stunt. The cost of rebuilding physical infrastructure alone would work out to be much more than if we had allowed the power mad to run until the next election. Not to mention that acting in one accord has never been tried or tested on the Rock before so it would take a couple months before we got it… if we get it any at all. More power to the Egyptians as they take control of their situation and I pray they get re-settled soon, the last time I think they were faced with such a predicament, it took them over one hundred years to do so.

In more news at home: persons of interest walked out of lock up; Buju Banton made history for winning a Grammy whilst on trial and I’m trying to lose fifty pounds. Well, my mother always say “If you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything”, which basically sums up my rant for this week, since I have contributed nothing substantial to your daily lives other than offering a peep into my twisted mind and making you chuckle. Feel free to fill my inbox with mail correcting my historical references and your politically guided take on anything or nothing I’ve written about today. I’m open to learning new stuff. Stay blessed. elvachatalot@yahoo.com Twitter @ElvaJamaica