"YouTube is not a very essential Web site, Is it?"

Great story on the Minister that Banned YouTube - Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom. Check out these great excerpts:

...Sitthichai persisted in detailing the euthanasia device, prefaced with an observation: "There are a hundred small ways to finally exit your life." Sitthichai calculated that the best way to do the job was a simple machine that pumps carbon monoxide into a room. "I'm sure you'd be dead in a half an hour," he said.

"Peacefully too."

"When he goes walking, he says he always carries a small gun with him."

When Sitthichai is asked to elaborate on this point, he is compelled to issue a clarification: He carries a .45-caliber pistol during his walks - "not a small gun," he said. He would carry a larger-caliber weapon, he said, but Thai law does not allow it.