Points

1. Why do the politicians with principles and integrity die, and the lying bastard slimebags like Blair, Clarke and Blears survive? Proof positive, if it were needed, that there is no benevolent $DEITY watching over us.

2. Through the usual sort of semi-random LJ-Markoff-chain-reading-process I just came across the phrase: "Demographics do not create community". This should be branded into the forehead of every fuckwit politician and meeja "commentator" who feels tempted to talk about the "Muslim community" or such. There are communities that contain Muslims; there likely are communities consisting only of Muslims; there is no "Muslim Community", any more than there's a "Christian Community" or an "Anarcho-geek catslave Community".

3. I'm going downstairs now, to convert a wodge of Steve Rawlings' Dexter mince, a shallot, a chilli and some coriander leaf into burgers, to be consumed by ramtops and me shortly afterwards.

That's it.