moron corner

The obnoxious Tony Bliar has been speaking again, according to the Beeb:

Radical Islam is world's greatest threat - Tony Blair

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has described radical Islam as the greatest threat facing the world today.

It's alarming that someone who for so long was in charge of a moderately powerful country still doesn't know that the "greatest threat facing the world today" is in fact climate change.

Or perhaps he's erecting a smokescreen in the hopes that we'll not remember how at huge expense to the British taxpayer he abetted, against all international law, the invasion of a country that had no connection to "radical Islam" but did have inhabitants of appropriately dusky hue, while at the same time, despite much froth, he did absolutely fuck-all to help the world cope with man-exacerbated global warming.

What an embarrassment he is to us all. And how much more than that he's going to be to the unfortunates who're trying to stay alive on a hostile planet in a few decades' time.

August bukes part one

I've counted, and it seems I've read in excess of half a million books this month. Behind the cut can be found the first part of my informal notes on these; as usual, apologies for all typos, howlers, food-stains.

A couple of nonfiction books consumed during August aren't here because it'll be a few more days before I have the time to describe them. So they'll go into the September heap.



( So, here goes . . . )

August bukes part dukes

And here's the other half of my notes . . . assuming LJ doesn't moan that the post is too large (as it did during my first attempt to post Part #1).



( Is this fun or what? )

August bukes part last

Sure enough, LJ thought that even Part Dukes on its own was too big, so here I am with an unprecedented




( PART TROILISME!!!11!! )