When I started this blog roughly two years ago, I thought I'd just write about how technical innovations could help people live better lives. I'm not one of those who think that technology has made everything worse for the mankind. I do think that technical innovations have brought more knowledge, education, health and general well-being into the world.

In addition to technology helping people, I'm also interested in people helping people - that is, politics. I guess it's the same attempt to make this planet a better place for us and our children.  Politics is a sensitive topic so I thought I would leave it out of this blog, in order to keep the message in essential and not have the blog turn into an arena of bigotry. Perhaps I already opened the door a bit with my entry on Vatican, and perhaps I'm now opening another one by comparing a cat to a murdered journalist. But I take the chance.

I read two very disturbing articles this past weekend, and comparing the two is drawing a strange picture of us humans.

First, two kids in Oklahoma torture their cat in a shower and post a video in Youtube. Viewers of this video get appalled, and quickly form a community of investigators putting together pieces of information from the web in order to identify the kids. Withing a few hours, the young criminals were given names and faces. Police went over and rescued the poor cat.

Then, a journalist criticizing the Russian regime is murdered in cold blood in October 2006. Russian government says they will do everything to find the killer. More than two years after, on Thursday February 19, Russian court acquits three men suspected of aiding in the murder. The fact that both Russian's president and former president, now prime minister, have said to do EVERYTHING  to find the guilty, hasn't done anything to get the murder mystery solved.

So, finding masked unidentified cat torturers takes the web community a few hours. Finding a killer who shoots a humanitarian angel in plain daylight takes more than two years and still no results.

(PS. I love cats and I have one of my own. His name is Mr. Cat, pictured here below Anna).