Pretty much everyone heard about the disaster which took place in Naxxar. Some guys were working on fireworks in a garage in a residential area, when something went wrong, and leveled not only that garage, but two adjacent buildings.
A mother of two young children, who had just come home from grocery shopping, was one of the fatalities.
Seriously, think about it. Fireworks are nice and all, but are we that dimwitted that we absolutely NEED fireworks for our village feasts to be enjoyable? No matter how much you love fireworks, you cannot argue that they are worth the lives of so many who have perished in the last decade in the country just because of them. It's not worth lives.
Either get rid of them altogether, or else, the government should put some really, really strict enforcement on the damn things, using spot checks. Not very dissimilar from the IAEA did to the Iraqis in the 1990's (they did unannounced spot checks for weapons of mass destruction). If we can't be responsible with fireworks, we shouldn't be trusted with them. Simple as that.
In other news, another U.S. politician was caught in a sex scandal. The governor of NY was caught with a prostitute. Seriously, does anybody really care? Who gives two shits if the guy can't keep in his pants? Should that really be something that becomes a public debate?
A politician involved a sex scandal is not our concern. It happens less often than sex scandals involving members of clergy, which in my opinion, is even more disconcerting.
If he can't keep it in his pants, that should be between him, and his wife. I'm sure she'll have her own ways of dealing with it.