Hong Kong Politician Bejeweled, Unrepentant

Thanks to GamersWithJobs for its story revealing the Hong Kong Education Secretary was recently caught playing a puzzle game on his PDA during a 'lengthy legislative meeting.' According to the original story in the Straits Times, he was spotted playing games by "student representatives, who were seated one row behind the education chief." In addition, GamersWithJobs is delighted to note: "Being the gamer that he is, [Professor Li] even refused to apologize for playing Bejeweled on his PDA, as 'no constructive opinions' were voiced in the debate."

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That's awesome. I wish more politicians would just say "you know, I did it, I meant to do it, and whatcha gonna do about it?" when this sort of thing happens. Professor Li didn't get elected saint, after all. When you can't deny it, and you can't really defend it, just say "screw it."

It's kind of like Clinton's whole "I didn't inhale" fiasco. If he'd just said, "It was the 60's, lots of stuff was going on, I tried it a couple times and didn't like it, and I don't think anybody else should do it either," it would have all blown over, and nobody would have cared. Gore admitted to smoking pot. I think several of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for 2k4 have (Dean I know admitted it) and nobody cares. Instead, Clinton told such a ridiculously obvious lie, and became a laughing stock. Live & learn.