Bertrand Russell, writing in 1938:
“At the time of the Tokyo earthquake, the inhabitants of that city turned upon the Koreans living there and massacred them, not because they supposed these harmless folk had caused the disaster, but because terror and misery made them wish to massacre somebody. We and the French spread terror and misery throughout Germany in the years after the armistice; they could not massacre us, so they turned upon the Jews. It was a gesture of insanity; but if, as I firmly believe, terror and misery caused the insanity, it will not be cured by a further dose of the same poison.”
Same goes for Iraq/Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, same goes for Palestine. Same goes for Wriggles whenever he sees another dog.
A heartwarming ‘Forces’ story from the Sun:
Luke, a 22-year-old lance corporal, was on patrol in Nad-e-Ali in Helmand when an insurgent’s bullet hit his body armour and ricocheted into his face.It tore into his cheek, broke his jaw and came out through his mouth.
Mum Kim, of Torquay, Devon said: “He knows he’s very lucky but he’s trying to play down his injury.”
Was just involved in an amazing bit of street theatre. Some builders were delivering 2 sofas to our house, when round the corner comes one of those municipal car towing vans, and they can’t get by – “Waitcha turn, you caarnt!” suggests one of the builders. As the tow truck slips by, one of the builders holds up his middle finger and shouts “Cunts!” – the truck stops and out gets a 7ft high, eastern european giant haystacks in a shiny yellow jerkin. “What did you call me?” – “I called you a cunt” says the plucky builder, bumping into him with my sofa. This prompted all kinds of fuck offs and finger jabbing, until everyone realised that no one was *actually* going to start a fight. I played the peacemaker, and pretended to reason with the enormous parking attendant, saying as nicely as I could: “listen, I think you really ought to fuck off now.” The man mountain got back in his truck. The plucky builder was loving it. “He thought I was going to back down, but I wasn’t… I’d have kicked him in the balls, he’d have gone down…” – this met with general agreement. “Yeah, he’d have kicked him in the balls, and done him in the throat… what’s he gonna do? My van’s too big for his truck. Fuck him!”
Very excited about Steven Seagal’s latest movie project. Directed, co-written by, and starring Mr Seagal himself. It’s called Prince of Pistols, and I am intrigued and delighted by the latest casting information on IMDb:
Steven Seagal … John Prince
B.B. King … (in talks)
KoKo Taylor … (in talks)
NB. He’s also the executive producer. Four salaries! (and the decision to do the ghastly Prince of Pistols / John Prince reverse pun made so much easier).
Update: thanks to one of my readers, a Mr C.T. Onions for pointing out my ’saleries’ spelling blunder, and for recommending I try Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt energy drink with the added Policosanols, in particular the Asian Experience flavour. Thanks C.T. – I’m onto it!
From WrestleWhine. It’s so raw, you feel like you can smell the sweat in the air:
The cast/character listings for a cancelled TV show called ‘Love Monkey’ (whooo – that’s a properly bad name).
* Tom Cavanagh – as Tom Ferrell, 30-something single record executive
* Jason Priestley – as Mike, Tom’s buddy and brother-in-law (he is married to Tom’s sister)
* Katherine La Nasa – as Karen, Tom’s sister and Mike’s wife
* Larenz Tate – as Shooter a.k.a. Derek, Tom’s streetwise, moneyed friend
* Christopher Wiehl – as Jake, handsome baseball player turned sportscaster
* Judy Greer – as Bran, Tom’s friend who always tells things to him straight
* Ivana Milicevic – as Julia, Tom’s colleague and possible girlfriend
* Daniel Sunjata – as Diego
Hope I see it some day, if only to see Bran telling it straight and shooting from the hip. I’m a secret fan of Tom Cavanagh’s previous show, Ed, in spite of the fact that Cavanagh has one of the world’s most punchable faces:
Punch punch punch punch!
I may have to make a list.
From the forum of a website dedicated to the Alton Towers theme park:
We was on the field today during dinner and this year 9 chavs nicked our football, 5 minutes later we all ran after them to take the ball back. One of my mates Harry pushed one of them over while taclking the ball of them, he came upto him saying “You call that a tackle maggot?, you pushed me over maggot. What you looking at maggot, i’ll get my cousin onto you maggot”
I replied ” What the whole of Newark? ” and he looked nervous and shy then and walked of and once again called us all maggots 
annoying naive little sh!t
Dogs chase cats. That’s what dogs do, besides licking their balls, catching frisbees and mauling infants. The catching frisbees bit about dogs is fine – as anyone who’s seen the opening credits to Flight of the Navigator will testify – but the rest of it I can do without. And whatever happened to Joey Cramer…?
He was like the Haley Joel of 1986. The last IMDb hears of him is this:
It’s My Party (1996) (uncredited) …. Party Guest
“Party Guest” – that’s the movie equivalent of playing 3rd donkey in a school nativity play. Poor Joey, it hasn’t been his party since 1987 when he played Willie opposite Buddy Ebsen in Stone Fox (tvm).
So yes, dogs. They chase cats…
A dispute between two Catoosa County neighbors Sunday night ended in a shootout with one man suffering gunshot wounds to the head and chest. According to Catoosa County Sheriff Phil Summers, Terry Dewitt McDaniel of 48 Mark Lane, shot his neighbor’s dog. He claimed the dog, which belonged to William Beyer of 93 Campbell Circle, was chasing his cat.
Summers said Beyer’s wife told him the dog had been shot and he got a handgun and went to McDaniel’s residence to confront him. “During the altercation, Mr. McDaniel and Mr. Beyer exchanged gunfire,†Summers said.
“During the altercation” they “exchanged gunfire” – ? – it makes it sound so civilized, like an incident that might happen in Lady Windermere’s Fan. Have you seen the 1925 Ronald Colman version? It’s got this amazing opening sequence with dogs leaping to catch frisbees.
Bed now.
I’ve just found out that a close friend of mine has a friend who has a friend who used to live in the same town in America as Sandy Denny and this friend says that one time Sandy Denny punched the woman who ran her local Off Licence in the face because she wouldn’t serve her any alcohol.
So there you go. Voice of an angel, but not afraid to use her fists when drunk.
