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Searching for Sanity

With Google we all got freedom to Search (unless you belonged to China).

In the old days (circa 1970s) people always wanted to search high and low.  Not sure for what but that was the expression du jour.   I searched high and low for you and just now you are appearing... c'mon man... it could have been to seek Ishwar or a guy called Ishwar.

Now you really cannot pretend to not know something because you can search.  Instantly.  At least as long as there is cell reception (sounds like a party thrown in a jail for new comers but its not).

Then again there are new types of search that we as people constantly embark on - for purposes known and unknown.

In the recent news was a cavity search conducted by border patrol on people wanting to cross the US borders illegally.  Said cavities were essentially variety of orifices on the human body that could be used as secure containers for transporting material that may or may not be suitable for storage in said cavities.

Then there was Khobragade who was a diplomat that got strip searched -no she was not in Vegas- as in first stripped and then searched which raised all sorts of furor over the rights of a sovereign to treat a person of another country.  Here the searching was for reasons unknown.

Then we get to the latest installment of what could be called a multi country, large scale,  24x7, coordinated search.  That for a missing airliner.

An entire large body aircraft vanishes - did Malaysia invent real Stealth Technology after all?

Regardless no one seems to be any the wiser after almost two weeks that 250 people disappear.  Even Las Vegas magicians are scratching their scalps off - searching for answers.

So what we learn from all this searching is that there must be a place in the Universe where all lost things or things we think we know but really do not go to rest - and that will only reveal itself when we do more Soul Searching!

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