Intermission
I do have a couple of major blogs lined up, one on the past weekend and the other on the particular idiotic genius that lives and breeds inside facebook.com (NOT, I hasten to add, the genuine genius that is founder Mark Zuckerberg). But these will have to wait until the moment I'm not dropping with exhaustion. For sheer emotional and physical fatigue, try a round-trip of 200 miles to take your ex-boyfriend from his current flat to his new place, where he can leave his stuff before he moves in, and to then take him back home.
First, major applause for Europe's leathering of the USA at the Ryder Cup. This is becoming slightly embarrassing, and if the current trend continues the contest should possibly revert to US v Great Britain & Ireland. Here's a bit of fantasy: if that had been the case, the Americans would have lined up against the following:
Luke Donald
David Howell
Colin Montgomerie
Paul Casey
Padraig Harrington
Paul McGinley
Paul Broadhurst
John Bickerton
Kenneth Ferrie
Anthony Wall
even allowing for the same wildcard picks of Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood, perhaps on second thoughts we should stick with Europe for the time being. Or maybe we could play the Americas: what would the match have been like with, say, Angel Cabrera, Mike Weir and Stephen Ames on the opposition? Let me know, I'm interested.
And more full marks to Liverpool for beating Spurs 3-0, although how Jermaine Jenas contrived to miss from a yard I'll never know.
Quite how this came up I can't remember, but my father idly mentioned that 'very few people would now admit to voting for New Labour.' Well, ladies and gentlemen, I can and I did. I voted Labour in 2001 and 2005 and, were there an election tomorrow, I'd vote for them again. Rather like the Democrats, I'd happily join them if it wasn't for their supporters.
I only caught snatches of Gordon Brown's speech to Conference but it seems to sum up a party worth supporting. More on this later, but it beats seven shades of hell out of the massed ranks of idiocy who turned up in Manchester to protest against more or less everything, it seemed. Regular readers will know my thoughts on Iraq: it's a mess; it remains an entirely justifiable decision; leaving now would be gross negligance and stupidity; anyone who believes things were going or would otherwise have gone fine is on a different planet (just ask the ever-helpful French); it is not the fault of Israel, Wal-Mart or oil companies; it is not, pace Tony Benn, an imperial war. Would that it were.
Can one believe in a Wellsian World State and simultaneously perform the mental gymnastics required to die in a ditch for the national sovereignty of despots and homicides? (yes, I've read the latest reports on torture in Iraq - bits of Iraq - and it's sickening, I agree).
While we're on the subject, the sooner somebody goes into Darfur, the better. Do we have to wait for UN clearance this time?
First, major applause for Europe's leathering of the USA at the Ryder Cup. This is becoming slightly embarrassing, and if the current trend continues the contest should possibly revert to US v Great Britain & Ireland. Here's a bit of fantasy: if that had been the case, the Americans would have lined up against the following:
Luke Donald
David Howell
Colin Montgomerie
Paul Casey
Padraig Harrington
Paul McGinley
Paul Broadhurst
John Bickerton
Kenneth Ferrie
Anthony Wall
even allowing for the same wildcard picks of Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood, perhaps on second thoughts we should stick with Europe for the time being. Or maybe we could play the Americas: what would the match have been like with, say, Angel Cabrera, Mike Weir and Stephen Ames on the opposition? Let me know, I'm interested.
And more full marks to Liverpool for beating Spurs 3-0, although how Jermaine Jenas contrived to miss from a yard I'll never know.
Quite how this came up I can't remember, but my father idly mentioned that 'very few people would now admit to voting for New Labour.' Well, ladies and gentlemen, I can and I did. I voted Labour in 2001 and 2005 and, were there an election tomorrow, I'd vote for them again. Rather like the Democrats, I'd happily join them if it wasn't for their supporters.
I only caught snatches of Gordon Brown's speech to Conference but it seems to sum up a party worth supporting. More on this later, but it beats seven shades of hell out of the massed ranks of idiocy who turned up in Manchester to protest against more or less everything, it seemed. Regular readers will know my thoughts on Iraq: it's a mess; it remains an entirely justifiable decision; leaving now would be gross negligance and stupidity; anyone who believes things were going or would otherwise have gone fine is on a different planet (just ask the ever-helpful French); it is not the fault of Israel, Wal-Mart or oil companies; it is not, pace Tony Benn, an imperial war. Would that it were.
Can one believe in a Wellsian World State and simultaneously perform the mental gymnastics required to die in a ditch for the national sovereignty of despots and homicides? (yes, I've read the latest reports on torture in Iraq - bits of Iraq - and it's sickening, I agree).
While we're on the subject, the sooner somebody goes into Darfur, the better. Do we have to wait for UN clearance this time?
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