I'm Off To The Souk to Buy A Hajib For My Camel

Hats off to Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashed Al-Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, who purchased a very comely and fetching camel for $2.7 million last week at the big camel beauty pageant held annually in Abu Dhabi.

As you can see she is quite the charmer.

But Oulsham, you say, how does this person qualify as a jackass candidate, aren't you a lassiez-faire free-marketer? Yes, in fact that is very astute of you to see the contradiction. I begrudge not the spending of $2.7 million on a camel, especially one as cute as this one.

What I find jackass worthy is the fact that there is a camel beauty contest in the first place. Let's think about this together. This is a culture that has covered up its women for reasons of modesty (or lack of self-control - take your pick), depriving itself of true beauty thereby forcing itself to hold camel beauty contests.

Oulsham, you xenophobe, you say, it's a cultural thing and it's quite obvious you aren't bright enough to understand cultural differences. Maybe, but you have to agree culture or not, admitting attendance at a camel beauty pageant, let alone buying one of the contestants for $2.7 million, opens one up for a lot of conjecture. I'm just saying.

Today's nominee for Jackass Week Champion: Camel Beauty Contest Organizers.