Proof of 'reverse evolution'

I don't know if I should laugh or cry...


A Columbia man was arrested after he allegedly struck an acquaintance in the ear with a sword Tuesday during a fight over a beer at a Forest Drive gas station, a Columbia police incident report said.



(Pic is not from article. I had to crawl down a few of the intraweb tubes to find it.)


http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/15301733.htm

Brawling Monks...

From Reuters;
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-08-17T181046Z_01_COL276316_RTRUKOC_0_US-SRILANKA-MONKS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Protesters calling for an end to recent violence in Sri Lanka found themselves brawling with hardline Buddhist monks Thursday, after a rally dubbed a "peace protest" turned unexpectedly violent.
Organizers said there were around 1,000 people in a park in the capital, Colombo, listening to a range of speakers when hardline saffron-robed monks opposed to concessions to Tamil Tiger rebels mounted the stage and erected banners.
Some more moderate Buddhist monks, protesting for peace, were already on the stage when punches were thrown. Soon, monks' robes and fists were flying, although no one was badly hurt, witnesses said.

The "Peace" crowd never fails to amaze me.
Here are a group of Monks, fighting over peace... Who'd a thunk it?

I like this little gem;
"They were saying we should go to war," said pro-peace monk Madampawe Assagee. "We like to listen to other opinions so we let them do that but then they started fighting and we couldn't control some of our people. They tried to make it a big fight but we settled it in a few minutes."

Huh?
Lets get this straight.
We have Monks protesting violence, until someone protests them, then it's balls to the walls beat the tar outta whoever disagrees.

Sheesh, I thought Monks holed themselves up in mountain top monasteries, studied ancient text and chanted.

Maybe we should round up some of these fighting Monks and send them to Iraq.