Okay, this is so not me, but it made me laugh when I saw it. Today it’s very warm and very muggy, but it was also very much about to rain like hell. So the thought of this imaginary me prancing around in a bikini is just ludicrous. Or maybe it’s lewdicrous; could be. However, it’s cute and of course the kitty is in it. Hi, kitty! And by the way, by the time I got home, the heavens burst open and I had to run around outside trying to cover up the one flower bed and protect it from…
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Reporters who entered the office compound after the raid found a scene of destruction. Computers had been seized, furniture had been overturned, doors broken down and framed photographs of Mr. Chalabi smashed. Aides to Mr. Chalabi said members of the raiding party had helped themselves to food and beverages from the refrigerator. What the hell are we doing in Iraq? Have we gone totally apeshit? What is our policy? Are we now the jackbooted bullies of the world? We go in for no good reason, we screw with people, we imprison them (see “no good reason” above) and nobody had…
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London seems really grimy – I never remembered it this way. The constant drone of the city is almost unbearable – the crawling traffic, the antique buses belching black smoke, the trains, the sirens, the car alarms, a million noisy conversations in a few square miles. There’s dust everywhere. It’s unbearably warm. My senses are amplified – it’s like watching a tv that needs the brightness, contrast, colour and volume turning down. Ben Saunders is off the ice. He was originally planning on skiing right across the Arctic alone, from Russia to Canada. However, ice conditions and a late start…