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The media over here is reporting that Barack Obama's younger brother, fully African, is living in destitution in Nairobi. I don't think people realise that there is so much poverty and deprivation in the world and that the United States, however imperfect, offers opportunities that are not available elsewhere. Anyone who's a candidate for what is still the most important job in the world will have his or her life put under the microscope. Even Socks, the Clintons' cat, became an "animal companion of interest" so a relatively new politician on the inernational scene such as Barack Obama has aroused even more attention than usual and that interest will extend to his wife and relations. Italy is the land of the "paparazzi" and it was an Italian reporter who found George (?) Obama living in one of Nairobi's shanty-towns.
The Net is like the monster created by Victor Frankenstein. He thought he could control it but found out the fallacy of that. Mary Shelley never envisaged the Internet but she grasped the essentials about unimaginable possibilities when she wrote her novel. That's the way we live now.
