The guy crooning at a karaoke
bar finishes, puts the mike down
on the bar and walks out into the

Thai night. The mike rolls off the
bar, hits the floor with a resound-
ing thud and the booze addled

crowd goes nuts with appreciate-
ion for the slow, easy German ren-
dition of a local favorite. It was

the sound of the mike hitting the
floor that got the crowd’s attent-
ion, just like anything that stops

you in your tracks, gets your at-
tention and then the now require-
ed environmentally friendly light

bulb comes on directly over your
head in one of those cute cartoon
bubbles and you get what only a

nano-second before was under-
stood only in a parallel universe.
Recent studies have shown that

99 percent of all Nobel prize win-
ners living and dead get that and
who listens to the one percent,

even Nobel one percenters, or any
one percenters, anyway? Don’t you
wish it were that way in politics?