I was on a roll a little while back posting o so frequently, and then like Icarus who flew too close to the sun, there was suddenly silence. There are many cogent reasons for my absence of almost a month, the major one being a back breaking, potentially earth shaterring amount of work that descended on my head in August. I had so many good posts pop into my head over the month, but there was no creative energy to blog when all was said done. I watched with anger and despair as these ideas faded into the mist never to be retrieved to form a coherent post.

However these were the feelings going through my head, until I fired up the dashboard and realised that this would be my 200th post. I said it 200, what!!! :D

Clearly I could not get over the hump. My subconcious did not want to cross the boundary that was the two hundreth post, not wanting to chart into new territory a path that has not really been travelled by Nigerian bloggers, who unfortunately seem to have the shelf life of a spermatozoa.

Still I persevered and crossed the hurdle with this post which you would all admit is stellar in its ability to take up a whole page while saying absolutely nothing. If you think its easy to do this, I dare you to try it.

In closing it is my pleasure to inform you that I have a new theory - The Theory of the Toasting Hour. What is the toasting hour you ask? I discovered this phenomenon quite by accident really. During the time period in which I was making such calls, I realised that during the week most of my calls to the opposite sex occured during the hours of 10pm and 11 pm. This was the perfect time because most people are at home, are likely to be awake and are able to talk for a while if so inclined. As any one with half a brain can see, all these factors taken together mean that a lot of toasting will be done. While I admit I have not done any random sample testing, it is clear that I have discovered a natural law of the working life in Lagos.

I must confess that this post comes to you courtesy of the New York Times (read the article and the post and it will all make sense)

Indiana Jones and the long arse name, was one of my favorite movies of the summer. It is entirely possible that some of my love for this movie was based on my childhood infatuation with all things Indy. However there was a particular action scene where my beloved Indy escapes a nuclear explosion by hiding in a lead lined fridge.

It's one of those delusions of grandeur that affect movies from time to time, think the invasion of Cuba in Bad Boys II.

Sometimes, as in Indy, the trangression is so bad that it becomes a descriptor for hubris. So when you say someone or something "Nuked The Fridge" you mean that he/she/it has ventured into "the realm of the ridiculous and stupid"

I am beginning to wonder if the Nigerian Political Establishment (all three branches of them) have "Nuked The Fridge"

First we have the Federal Court Judge that purported to halt the handing over of Bakassi to Camerooun by declaring "status quo" on the matter and ajdourning it to October, when the handover is middle of August. I suppose it's good to know that the Nigerian Federal High Court is an appelate court of the International Court of Justice. Hopefully he will get the same treatment as the last "status quo" though she only thought that a High Court was the appelate court of the Supreme Court.

Second we have the House of Representatives banning for the umpteenth time the reading of the FOI bill. These august members of the political establishment have not given ONE cogent reason why the bill should not pass. This reminds me of the refusal of the Anambra State House of Assembly to pass Gov. Obi's budget. This is particuarly infuriating when you realise that these guys have not done anything substantive over the last year.

Third, we have again the House of Representatives and their decision to establish a probe panel to probe the probe panel set up to probe the National Integrated Power Project. Ah for the love of probes. I think there is no other comment needed on this one.

Fourth, we have the PDP trying to fault the Tribunal's voiding of the Ondo State gubernatorial elections. This is the state wear the so-called professor of computing could not even boot up a laptop at the hearing. This is the state where the Deputy Governor was caught carrying ballot boxes himself, I guess he hasn't heard of delegation. This is the state where the fingerprint report of the ballot papers would cause even Mugabe to blush (ok maybe I nuked the fridge on that last one... )

Fifth... fine I'll stop. It's not like I want to be accused of nuking the fridge. It's just that I get mad when I read about all these rosy predictions of what we are doing to move the country forward, and then watching the actions that seemed to be premeditated to set it back. Maybe I am wrong, after all Nigeria has seemed to survive (and sometimes thrive) almost in spite of itself. Here's to hoping... but I am almost all hoped out.