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(Fremantle W.A.) Nov. 24, 2008  Sitting in Gloria Jean's coffee early this morning we dipped into today's edition of the Western Australian hoping to find some bit of inspiration since it seemed that neither the ghost of Graham Greene nor that of Joseph Conrad was going to find us in this Indian Ocean port and reward us with a brilliant idea.  Flipping through it, we stumbled upon an ad that proclaimed:  "It's not coz we can't. It's coz we can't be bothered.".  It was the slogan for Brownes Chill coffee.

Since there seems to be awards for everything these days, why can't the World's Laziest Journalist give out awards for indolence?

We could have folks e-mail (or use the comments section) nominations to us and pick the winner at random.  Putting a lot of work into such awards would defeat the whole purpose of the awards, wouldn't it?

Maybe we could have the winner already picked out and then just ignore the nominating process completely, eh?

What if someone started a war for all kinds of high-minded reasons and, after several years of letting his pals make a fortune on the endeavor, he just shrugged his shoulders and walked away from it leaving it up to his successor to clean up the mess?  Shouldn't that guy get an award for Indolence?

Is this column too short?  Should a columnist worry about the length of his column?

Robert Heinlein said:  "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

Now the disk jockey will play Hoagy Carmichael's "Up a Lazy River" and we'll drift out of here.  Have a "no sweat" type week.

It's easier to just run the related links here:

http://worldslaziestjournalist.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/we-cant-be-bothered/

http://www.lazybastards.org.uk/index.htm

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwCi8f3iuk

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/catalogue/B/186972.html

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