The War on Terror is over!! ... In th UK:

The words "war on terror" will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country's chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.

Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless "death cult."

The Director of Public Prosecutions said: 'We resist the language of warfare, and I think the government has moved on this. It no longer uses this sort of language."

London is not a battlefield, he said.

"The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers," Macdonald said. "They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way."

I really love reading the news posts on Penny Arcade (when I know what the hell Tycho's talking about.) Something about paragraphs like this description of Vista really grab me:

More than anything else, I think it was installing Vista that made me hate PC gaming. The constant, system-level interruptions, the impaired compatibility, and most of all the savage kick to my framerate's exposed groin made me wonder what precisely in the fucking fuck I was doing screwing around with this onyx monolith. I knew I was just going to have to upgrade eventually (no), and I wanted to see if there was anything to this DirectX 10 thing (no), and I wanted to see what the Windows version of Live was like (a warcrime) so I bit the bullet. I shouldn't have. It was a bullet! That should have been my first clue.

To be fair to politicians of all stripes and nationalities, that isn't exactly what you would call a "real" interview. The interviewer is Bryan Dawe and the interviewee is John Clarke. Apparently they've done this bit for a number of years, where they parody a politician in an interview (without so much imitating the politician). You can find more recent stuff here (bearing in mind that they satirize Australian politics, so the frame of reference may not be there so much.)

Which isn't to say that you have to give politicians more credit than that, but at least I'll be able to sleep at night knowing they aren't that idiotic.

oh my...



if ever there was circular logic, it's in that video... and it amazes me what politicians think they can get away with saying, and not realise how stupid they sound...

New Year's at Matt and Jess's place!!!

7:00 P.M. until 2008

I will have some alcohol (wine and beer) and some baking/munchies, but if you felt like bringing some of your own that'd be swell, as I have no idea how many people are coming.

Bring yourselves, your friends, any games you'll want to play, movies you want to see, or music you want to hear.

Email or call me if you need our address.

Alright Par I can go but my half boss isn't going to like this.

Sounds like fun Par
However- i have a job. therefore - must go to work

Monday, 3:00, Ball Hockey, Westbrook. Bring sticks if you got them.

Yeah, Garneau, 9:00, Juno.

Thank you sir!

I don't do anything half-assed.