I think it’s very encouraging that the American media seem to have lifted the veil of partisanship that’s cloaked them throughout the Bush presidency. One example would be this excellent interview with Dick Cheney from CNN, in which Dick Cheney is basically made to bend over and apologise for being a naughty boy in Iraq. Well, maybe not quite that bad…

I didn’t see much of the State of the Union last night, but Greg Palast has a pretty insightful take on some of the minutiae of the speech, which is well worth checking out if you’re into that sort of thing. Which I am. The whole thing just makes me miss having the West Wing to watch.

I would comment on the Oscar nominations but to be honest, as interested as I am, I really haven’t seen enough of the films to comment, and I am slightly narked that because I don’t have Sky, I don’t get to watch them. By combining these two topics into one friendly post though, I do get to post this picture:

Right, i’m off to go and watch the last few ever episodes of Lois and Clark on DVD. Be truthful, you envy me don’t you?

First, the typical. Thanks to my good friend Jonic, this (alarmingly good looking) blog has been recieving some very welcome attention recently, and as the good man told me, now would be a good time to start attacking the notion of posting regularly with the same fervour that my housemate’s snakes attack their mice. But of course my wonderful and in-no-way-soul-destroying McJob decided that this would be a brilliant time to deny me any kind of access to said blog. Couple this with Orange’s continued mission to charge us for an internet connection they have expressed no interest in supplying to us, and it’s all had to fall by the wayside. Bah. To any of you new people who have stuck around, Hi. Normal service shall resume soon enough.

Now, for the atypical, to which I refer of course to the American Mid-Terms. What joy to wake this morning to hear the words ‘The Democrats have won…..’ Of course those words would have sounded a lot more pleasing two years ago, but maybe its time we Johnny Foreigners started to give them damn Yanks the benefit of the doubt. It may have taken them six years, but they have finally realised their mistake. Also, has anyone else noticed that in the first election without Karl ‘the fixer’ Rove for the last six years, this has happened? Strange.

Anyway, cheers for sticking around if you have done so.

Went to finally go see SUperman Returns last night, and was so increadibly delighted by it that I couldn’t stop talking about it for hours afterwards.  Brilliantly shot, written, performed and directed.  Brandon Routh just is Superman.

Other than that, not a lot to report really, just watching the news and the escalating middle east crisis with a growing sense of unease.  It can’t be too long before this ends up with us all ducking and covering in a futile attempt to save ourselves.

And whre the hell has my abc1 gone?  Freeview goddamn you! I’m missing Home Improvement!

It looks as though the whole sorry Israeli invasion of Gaza may be coming to an end. I hope so.

It’s quite pitiful how little I am doing with my Saturday evening. I’m going to watch ‘When Harry Met Sally’ soon, for the first time in years. I hope it holds up to my memory of it.

Edit:  I was going off a New York Times Story, but now the BBC is saying the Israelis are wholesale rejecting any offers of ceasefire.  Oh well.

I normally wouldn’t talk ill of the newly deceased, but in Ken Lay’s case I’ll make an exception. It seems the man who can weasel out of pretty much anything has weaseled out of his corruption charges for the final time. Next, Karl Rove.

Another thing that’s depressing me recently is the lack of depth reporting about Israel and Gaza at the moment. Is it just me or is this a situation that threatens international security more than any other at the moment? Israel has already buzzed the Syrian capital once, and if the surrounding states get sucked into this conflict, it’s not going to be long before Bush decides to get trigger happy. Maybe the news organisations are hoping that if they don’t talk about it, the Americans won’t notice. I know the Israelis want their man back, but what happened to good old investigation in such cases? Carpet bombing Gaza seems likely to end in only one result for the fella in question.