Entered the BRFCS Premier League: The Morpheans Friedel Mellberg Carragher O'Shea Svensson (M) Barry Thommo Legwinski Jenas Van Nistelroy Bellamy Subs: Coyne Samuel Flitty Ormerod

Really enjoyed "Stupid White Men", would well recommend it. On a footballing theme, "Football Against The Enemy" by Simon Kuper (I think) was a very interesting read, and did a good job of putting the global game in it's socio-political context (honestly, it's a lot more interesting than I just made it sound). If you like your sci-fi, Ian M Banks or Alistair Reynolds are my current faves. Makes me wish I was going on holiday this year. Bah!

Saddam says they're either in his sock drawer or in the bathroom cabinet (please try not to leave a mess in the bathroom). Failing that they might be in the cupboard under the stairs, or Abdul next door may have borrowed them again to help power his lawn mower/ clean the swimming pool out. Now that you mention it, I did find half a dozen scud missiles with depleted uranium tipped warheads down the back of the sofa the other week, but I thought they must have just fallen out of my pocket when I was pi**ed. Knew I should never have asked Saddam to feed the cat when I was on holiday, the rascal.

Unjustified, unneccesary and illegal under international law. Laughable that America keeps harping on about bringing terrorists and tyrants to justice when it breaks every international law going - keeping prisoners without charge at Guantanamo Bay for eighteen months, then selecting four of them at random and telling them "plead guilty and we will lock you up for twenty years, plead innocent and we will execute you". Flagrant violation of it's own constitution and the Geneva Convention. Then invades a country which it knows doesn't have WMD with the intention of removing by force the sovereign head of state, securing Iraq's oil supplies and pandering to the will of the military / industrial complex which bought Bush the White House. Oh, and we can't accuse US soldiers of war crimes either (even though they have certainly perpetrated war crimes in Afganistan and Iraq) because they refuse to join the International Criminal Court unless we grant them carte blanche amnesty from prosecution! P.S. I voted "no" btw...

This week I have mostly been listening to DJ Shadow. Next week I will mostly be listening to Fila Brazillia.