I have to admit that I find karoke to be one of the most hideous of social obscenities but I truly do not blame this on any Asian anywhere, regardless of the fact that I associate the discovery of and subsequent exploitation of karoke with the far east. Is this in fact true? Did the Japanese invent this repulsive human convulsion? I suppose I could look it up but I will instead sit here quietly and appreciate the relative lack of karoke in this fine city of Montreal.