Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

And, finally, necrophilia is *right* out.

(oddly, I can’t find a link to the Iraq prison / necrophilia scandal rumours)

Update: oops. For those of you confused about why I’m denying cannibalism in the US army, I’m paraphrasing a Monty Python sketch. Meant to explain that before…

Andrew Sullivan very nearly admits he was wrong about the war. At least, he admits that he was wrong to believe the Administration were sufficiently competent to fight the war without fucking it up.

While gay liberal Republicans make up a fairly small proportion of GWB’s supporters, it would be nice to believe that this meme could spread to more mainstream Americans. If John Kerry were elected because of his greater perceived competence in military and foreign policy, this would be a particularly sweet victory.

On the other hand, this relies on mainstream GWB voters being as intelligent and well-informed as Andrew Sullivan. Oh well…

I’m back to the 7-days-a-week, 12-hours-a-day working thing for the rest of May, so bloggage here may be limited.

Meantime, here’s a site encouraging you to vote in the European elections next month. Vote early, vote often, etc.

The jooglebomb seems to have lost impetus, with sensible definitions of Jew slipping somewhat and being replaced by more unfortunate ones. This is a Bad Thing, and whether Jew or Gentile, I urge you to do something about it…

On a related topic: should you happen to have found this site via a Google search, John Negroponte is not Jewish. Stop having stupid antisemitic conspiracy theories, and instead start hating him for being an evil bastard who backed murdering death squads. Also, to the Canadian who searched for “black people being shot” – you’re very weird.

Finally, Matthew Parris has some interesting views on the President’s re-election.

For those of you deprived of the benefits of living in the UK (chiefly rain, pies, dark beer and free access to the Times website), he believes Mr Bush needs to be re-elected and finish his plans, in order to demonstrate absolutely to the rest of the world how disastrous, wrong and certain to fail the neoconservative idea of imposing democracy through war is.

If ‘football’ hooligans decide that they want to have a fight with each other, at a deserted railway station, away from any football games that might be made unpleasant by their actions (and certainly well away from any non-consensual ‘victims’), why the fuck should we stop them?

Even if we do want to stop them, why the fuck should we waste enormous quantities of money sending them to jail for an average of two years each? You don’t get a much longer sentence than that for seriously battering someone who *doesn’t want to be battered*. Anyone sane would surely admit that consent is a pretty salient point…

The government has finally overhauled the law concerning sexual offences to take “consenting adult”-ness into account as the only important factor. It’s about time we did the same with all other offences.

They first came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me —
but hey, at least I was last…