As a child, I used to watch many a sci-fi movie. Some depicted man fighting alien and some showed us a concept of the future where man is depicted as being more intelligent.

Over time, I have lived to see life reflecting art. I have lived to see the advent of personal computers, the Internet, cell phones and all the gadgetry and innovation that were once confined to shows like Star Trek and Space 1999.

The thing that confounds me is that the part of about man becoming more intelligent only seems to be partially true because, man, stupid people are everywhere these days!

Have you ever been in traffic, especially in Half-Way Tree and you're on a red light? The minute the light turns green the pedestrian crossings are filled with people. So, by the time the street is cleared, the light goes red again and, you know what, it's annoying as hell.

Don't these people realise that the green light is for the vehicles?

It seems as if drivers aren't the only ones who need to take a trip down to the Swallowfield depot these days. Clearly, there are many people out there, too many, if you ask me, who need remedial courses to understand that when the traffic lights turn red, that means vehicular traffic, repeat, after me, vehi-cu-lar traf-fic, comes to a halt and then people walk and, when the lights change to green, it's time for people to stop and the vehicles to go.

Incredible Sarah Palin

The thing that gets to me is that they all look at you like you're the crazy one. The look on the faces ask the question: "Where is he going, doesn't he see the light is green?"

That's the kind of question you'd expect to hear coming from the incredible Sarah Palin, the woman, who realistically could become the next president of the United States, given that the man she runs with has already seen his three score and 10 and has had as many bouts with cancer as Ali had with Joe Fraser.

This is also a woman who makes George Bush look like a genius.

I mean, did you all see that interview she did with Katie Couric on CBS the other day?

Before that interview, she didn't seem all that bad. After all, you have to be fairly smart to become a governor of a state, don't you?

But, then came this: Katie Couric: Why isn't it better, Gov. Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families, who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries, allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

Looking to bailout

Gov. Sarah Palin: That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bailout. But, ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the - it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track.

So, health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And, trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But, one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.

I guess not.

The scary thing for me and, should be for Democratic nominee Barack Obama, is that there are Republicans, way too many of them, who think that Couric is a liberal activist and it is all a conspiracy to discredit Palin.

These are people living in the so-called 'greatest nation on earth' where you would think that the colour of a man's skin should not be a factor in determining whether he becomes president but it is.

I guess there is truth to the saying, one fool makes many.

There is also a lot of truth to what I am now feeling that while life can sometimes imitate art, today's truths are a lot stranger than science fiction.

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