monkey buisness.

this morning in ap economics mitchell informed the group of us sitting at the back table of computers in the media center about the death of the governor of new dehli due to, of all things, monkeys.

here is the article from http://www.livenews.com.au/:


"The Deputy Mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.

SS Bajwa fell from his first-floor terrace home on Saturday morning, and suffered serious head injuries when he was trying to fight off the monkeys.

Dehli is well known for its problem with plagues of monkeys, who invade temples and government complexes, steal food and frighten passers-by.

The city has tried to curb the plague of primates, by employing monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests.

Culling the monkeys is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman.

Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), leaves behind his wife and son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency."


my first reaction was if people are getting killed, why not kill some of the monkeys lessening the population or do anything to improve the situation? of course the article answers this question for me in that the people believe it is hanuman.

let us not of course forget the great picture accompanying the article:


oh humanity.


what is god, a god, any god(s), whatever higher being you may believe in be telling us? maybe it's that we need to recognize that we are not alone and that we are affecting the lives of other things with our actions? but that's just a guess.