Left and right

I'm right-handed but I've long realized that I do some things with my left hand. I hold my glass or cup with my left hand while eating; I prefer to pour water from a bottle or pitcher using my left hand; and I type text messages on my cellphone using the thumb of my left hand. Then I carry my shoulder bag over my left shoulder. I also know that my dominant eye is my left eye and that I hold the phone receiver to my left ear. Then while driving home today, I discovered that I actually steer the car using my left hand and just use my right hand to hold the steering wheel steady.

Justice Pinoy style

I am disappointed--though not entirely surprised--about the way authorities have handled investigations into the recent brutal murder of ten people during a bank robbery in Cabuyao, Laguna: As part of their operations to nab those responsible for the crime, they have gone out and killed four suspects during a shootout. But as news articles say, the police have yet to determine whether the suspects were actually involved in the murders!

And sad to say, that is very typical of criminal investigations here. As inexcusable as the original crime was, doesn't killing alleged suspects also bring down the police to the level of the murderers? Aren't police trained to give the alleged or suspected criminals a chance to surrender peacefully before resorting to deadly force even in extremely dangerous situations (unless of course there is an immediate threat to life)? Isn't it also downright stupid to kill the suspects when we could have obtained more crucial information about the actual perpetrators had they been taken alive? (I could rant on but my "30 seconds" have long been up.)