On Top of Megawati, All Covered in Well-Preserved Cheese...

Jesus H. Christ. I go away for a week and everyone manages to miss all hell breaking loose in the world's most populated Muslim country. Yeah, I'm talking about Indonesia; but no, I'm not talking about anything having to do with cartoons. This one's all about the meatballs.

Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)`s general chairperson and former President Megawati Soekarnoputri is scheduled to hold a "healthy meatballs" and chicken-flavored noodle campaign along with hundreds of the vendors at the parliament building here on Tuesday (Feb 21).

"We will conduct this activity to help the thousands of meatballs and chicken-flavored noodle vendors and sellers in the country, whose business has collapsed following reports on formaldehyde being added to such products," Sumaryoto, member of PDI-P faction in the House of Representatives (DPR) said here on Sunday.

Formaldehyde? What the hell does Megawati -- (derisively known as Miniwati for her purportedly dim mind) -- think is wrong with formaldehyde? Isn't that the stuff that makes those preserved dead frogs, pigs and bugs in high-school science classrooms all so tasty? Or am I the only one who dissected the frog and then ate it?