The Dwarfs! The Dwarfs!

(currently listening to: Eurythmics "Doubleplusgood". Ironic, isn't it?)

I've heard a lot about the Tiverton Dwarfs, yet - as surprising as this may be - I've never met one. Today way the day, we had some delegates in the parliament, together with some TV executive. I can just say, they are cute little buggers (the minipeople, not the TV guy, who was rather big).

They don't like to be called dwarfes, or little buggers, or minipeople, they prefer liliputans. Just imagine their troubles climbing on a bar stool, and you will agree that it's only fair to grant them that little wish. So it's liliputian, two 'l' and two 'i' total, remember that. There will be a test at the next elections (Just kidding!)

So of course they came to me with a wish. They want to be on TV! Specifically, they want to be on 'The Brash and the Backstabbing', which is a nice show (I like the young lady in the long skirt best). Well, now I am all for some more diversity on TV but if I let them have their way, who's next? That short skirted, potty-mouthed non-singer that is all the rage in more capitalist and less cultured countries? I couldn't forgive me doing that to you.

So I kindly tell them sorry, I can't decide that but I'll try my best to help them. I ask the TV guy if they could get an appearance on "Wonderful World", but he starts to splutter something about leaving him alone, and that quotas are bad and such things. OK, he may be a bit sensitive about this, but then he said: "Doesn't the government have something better to do?"

"Doesn't the government have something better to do?"
Let the arrogance sink in for a moment. Just because he knows how to yell at subordinates to work harder and make him more money, he thinks he also knows what is best for you? We listen to the small guy, too. And that's not only liliputans. After all, there are so few big guys, and so many small guys on this world.

Now I do ponder implementign a minority quota. But quota sounds so gravely serious, and the little bugger liliputians have put me in a good mood. Besides, I am advised that the B&B show is made by a private TV station. I am a bit surprised that we have such a thing, because I thought we are a socialist democracy, and anytime I meet a delegate of DouglasAdamia, he sneers that we need more private TV to become a real country. But as leader of the country, I can't show my surprise, and have to act all knowledged and insightful.

So I go all smirky, and announce that there will be a yearly prize. A prize for the positive portrayal of minorities. the lil ones nod in agreement but the TV guy is still fuming. I think I will finance the price by a little tax on potty mouthed singers on private TV.

Side note: I haven't seen that advisor Jessica, for a while, I am wondering if she did quit.