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So a couple of weeks ago The Fish and I are emailing each other. We have a weird way of starting our conversations each morning. We can not seem to be able to say hello like most normal people. We seem to try a new way of saying hello every morning. What can I say... We are bored... On this particular morning I say something along the lines of... "What's the magic word."

He replies with a word... I forget what it was at the moment... I could have been "tater salad" its not important. [For those of you who get the tater salad reference 10 points a piece.] I reply with a good to know comment. He then asks me if I know what one is supposed to do when they hear the magic word. Just being an angry bastard I state... "I don't know... Set a random Toyota Matrix on fire." Yeah I said that... I was so mad.

Well we laughed about that for a while and then we dropped the subject. Well a couple of nights later I am sitting in bed reading the news on the Internet like I do every night when I find an article titled as such. "Toyota worker arrested for torching cars." This makes me mad this guy is totally bogarding my idea. The article read as such... "TOYOTA, Aichi -- An employee of Toyota Motor Co. who claims to have set fire to several cars has been arrested, police said. Junji Kubo, 26, the Toyota employee, was arrested for willful destruction of property. He admits to the allegations. Toyota alone has seen 34 reported car torchings since the start of April and the Toyota employee is the prime suspect. It is not known whether his profession had anything to do with the vehicles targeted."

For those who do not know Aichi is a a prefecture of Japan. I know there are some out there who know all about the orient but for those who do not... Japan is divided into 47 sub-national jurisdictions known as prefectures. The land is then sub-divided into counties and cities and so forth. You could say that a prefecture is akin to a state in America. This political structuring system was established by the Meiji government in 1871, and is known as the abolition of the han system. These jurisdictions were meant replace the former provinces. There were initially over 300 prefectures, but in 1888 it was reduced down to 47. In 1947 The Local Autonomy Law gave more political power to prefectures, and provided for locally-elected governors.

Oh well... my dreams of having a good time were shattered. There you go people... A little fantasizing about arson mixed with some Political Science on the topic of Comparative Government seems to make a perfect post. All right I'm out...


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