Taken from Curia Regis

why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she/he wears mismatched socks." I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.

P.S.: Trolls and wiseguys deleted on the spot.

Who loves you, baby?

Everybody agrees that Londoners showed amazing inner strength under fire two days ago, and that all the rescue services performed outstandingly. The town's performance may well be seen as a major defeat for the terrorists. So their allies in the media have swung into action. Today's edition of the Channel 4 early evening news used every moment it did not devote to crawling admiration of the terrorists' brilliant organization and remarkably successful butchery to a lengthy set of varations on horror, disgust and grisliness. We are at war, and anyone who saw this performance will be clear that they were trying to play up the enemy's power and skill and encourage their spectators to fear them. Why this sort of abject moral surrender should take place I do not know, but it seems clear that Britain's Channel 4 News should be retitled "Channel 4 - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Al Qaida".

Classical music

American classical musicians have a particularly bad reputation. Here is an account of how they get to be as they are:http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-notebook9jul09,0,5643462,print.story

Unthinking treason

We are at war.

The enemy has apologists among us, insisting that the war is our fault. That if we had not done this or that, our cities would not have been bombed and our people murdered.

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