OCCUPIED COUNTRY

With God on our side

"We are in a conflict between good and evil. And America will call evil by its name," Mr Bush told West Point graduates in a speech last year. In this battle, he placed his country firmly on the side of the angels. "There is wonder-working power in the goodness and idealism of the American people," he said in this year's State of the Union address.

Now, more than ever we need the likes of Francis Vincent, Gerry and John around to remind us that it might take a "genius to keep things simple, and any damn fool can get complicated.*", but sometimes, just sometimes you expect your leaders to comprehend the difficult bits. You know, the bits that take proper, fully-rounded and educated politicians years of study to understand and , hopefully, as a result, represent our interests in a way that won't revisit terrorist backlashes on us in years to come.

* I paraphrase Pete Seeger referring to Woodie Guthrie I believe. If you know different - let me know !

"Wonder-working !" - Straight out of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan book of rational thought.

In the meantime - I'll bless Michael Moore ! Keep it up that man !!

PS As I write (late), all the mp3s on my PC are set to random. At the moment - "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence"; before "Working Class Hero", Zoot Allures", "The Road to Hell" and "Morning Dew" (The Long John Baldry version - guess you'd have to be British). All buggered up and widdershins. Knowing what I've got on my hard disk (all legal BTW !), from Debussy to Tom Waits, its almost as though this hunk of beige crap in front of me can read my mind on account of the bollix I write in this blog !

Go on - who can feel a screenplay coming on ? Inanimate object (PC), picks up all the nuances and peccadilloes of an ordinary person's life. Hmmmmmmm ! Sounds a bit like Amazon.com to me.