h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, it's sunny wet and almost warm! Certain people think I am obsessed with the weather - happen I am?
The Council are digging up our street again, we had to hover to leave the house today. Or - did we?
Dubya wants an excuse to invade Iraq, dammit, and what Dubya wants, Dubya too often gets. Will we actually *have* global nuclear war within our lifetimes? I don't believe so, thank God!
On a sick and ultimately selfish level, at least I wouldn't have to worry about job applications!

"Will we actually *have* global nuclear war within our lifetimes? I don't believe so,"

'Fraid I'm not quite as optimistic as you, Della. I believe it's quite possible. If 280 million, otherwise sensible, people can allow a drunken criminal megalomaniac to sieze the reins of their nation, then procede to act with impunity and absolutely no regard for human life - then anything's possible.

Warning Warning Warning! This is not a drill! This is real!

Scared? you should be!

Mostly harmless? You must be joking!

Oh yes! Did you see the interview with Steve Earle in the Herald t'other day? Thank God for people like Steve Earle, Noam Chomsky and John Pilger!

Empty Sky, talking of John Pilger, (not that anyone was..) did you see the documentary 'Palestine Is Still the Issue' on Monday night? (21st October, TV1). It was brilliant!

No, I didn't see it. What was it all about?

According to many, it was anti-Israel, which it wasn't - it was simply an examination of the situation in Palestine/Israel as it is now, and how that situation is the real cause of destabilisation in the Middle East. Not that nothing else matters, but that Israel/Palestine is the most important issue. It was about Palestinians dying at roadblocks because they can't get to hospitals, Israelis living in gated and armed comminities - all sorts of similar things. He interviewed a number of fair-minded Israelis and a few who weren't..