Even in my darkest recollection/there was someone singing my life back to me – Neko Case

How times change…

John Adams, yesterday, a thorn in the side of the current administration. Wandered around the city centre yesterday. Found the Waterstones and galloped right up to the Mind, Body, Spirit section like I always do. I’m drawn toward that otherwise dingy section of books because there usually tends to be a diamond buried amongst all that New Age dogshit. In [...]

  Paida huaa vakeel, to Iblees nay kahaa: ‘Allah nay mujhey Sahib-e-awlaad kar diya.’ (The day a lawyer was born, Satan exulted: ‘Allah has blessed me with progeny of my own.’) – Akbar Ilahabadi   (Apologies to the nice lawyers out there, and there are one or two, I think.)

Will the Stones play Sun City after all?

  From the PACBI site, via Norman Finkelstein’s site  Boycott Israel – Don’t Play another “Sun City”! An open letter to the Rolling Stones regarding their planned gig in Israel Dear Rolling Stones, The Palestinian arts community received in disbelief media reports of your upcoming performance in Israel, at a time when Israel continues unabated with [...]

Vote SNP Tomorrow…

…and get Labour kicked the fuck out. Errr, if you live in Scotland and are eligible to vote that is. For Iraq if nothing else: