Nor False Because Spoken Magnificently

Glasto

At long last, the line-up has been announced. Read it and weep.

And now for something completely different...

Something I was emailed today:

The words that I choose do not have the power to express how I feel about you, the love of my life.

The fact I now have found love has changed me, and my outlook on life, forever. All the things in life that i used to enjoy, have been replaced by you. Nothing bears meaning now apart from you, my love. Being only mortal, I give to you whatever time I have on this earth.

All I have is yours.

*Seb blushes a WHOLE lot*

(Vaguely) Relevant Quote of the Day

With trouble brewing both in the UK and on the continent over the proposed EU Constitution, many opponents of the document have mentioned proudly that they resisted "invasion" from Europe twice in the last century, and would be loathe to give up their sovereignty now. They should remember the words of that great statesman, who led the repulsion of one of those invasions; Winston Churchill, who said:

"We must build a kind of United States of Europe"

For now, I leave you with that thought.

Remarkable

There is no other way to describe this, a catalogue of the web of lies, deceit and falsities emanating from the Bush White House in their battle to swing public opinion behind the war in Iraq.
From "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised - G.W.Bush" to "They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer - Donald Rumsfeld".
We shall know them by their words and actions. Please, please, read the whole thing.

His friends call him Serena

From PopBitch, this excerpt from an interview after the release of Fellowship of Ring:

Journalist: Don't you think Gandalf should have had
a love interest?
Ian McKellan: He does, my dear. His name
is Orlando Bloom.

Amen to that, brother.

Aren't we all feeling better now?

According to a new report from Amnesty International,

The "war on terror" has made the world a more dangerous place and created divisions which make conflict more likely.

I'm not sure what to think about this, as I haven't had time to read the report myself, but some papers are merely reporting that the report says 'the "war on terror" has left people around the world feeling more scared than at any time since the end of the cold war'. There is a significant difference between the two statements, although they are in their different ways quite worrying. We don't yet know what impact the war on Iraq has had on international terror, although if the recent suicide bombings in Morocco (until recently a country famous for its fairly Western, moderate-Islamic tendancies, more on that later), Saudi Arabia and the continuing Intifada in Israel are anything to go by, we'll know soon enough. What times we live in, eh?

Look what happened...

Do you remember the run-up to the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan? We were told by the elected leader of the UK, and the unelected leader of the US that once the Taliban had been removed from power, they would not "leave behind" the ordinary people of Afghanistan. Now, more than a year later, a few Observer reporters visited the country to see if Messers Blair and Bush had lived up to that great promise. Look at what they found.

End of an era...

Okay, so I haven't blogged much lately. My fault, I'm sorry... Anyway, I am coming out of this blogging hiatus briefly to remind you all that Aaron Sorkin has just left The West Wing, which clocks in as easily my favorite TV show of all time, ever. He's left at the end of the fourth series, after creating the series and writing every single episode for the last four years. The American Prospect has a nice article commemorating his depature, go read.