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27 October

Depressed about John Peel dying. Funny how these things can get to you. I always find it depressing when people with integrity die too young. I remember being equally down when Douglas Adams and Kirsty MacColl popped their clogs. The world, as Morrissey so memorably put it, is full of crashing bores, and the last thing we need is any of the few interesting, genuine, creative souls dying before their time.

Especially when people like Dick Cheney are still alive. He has a history of heart disease, for God's sake. Why couldn't it have been him? Which would you prefer to lose - one of the last interesting and independent voices on radio, or a warmongering old fascist who can't even smile without looking like something out of a Hammer Horror film?

Which reminds me - did you see the complaint that the US Embassy issued about a column by Charlie Brooker in the Guardian last Saturday? Charlie Brooker is easily the best columnist in the paper. Not for him 800 words of dullness about fox-hunting, constitutional reform or Bloody Blair versus Bloody Brown. Instead, he writes every week about all the people on TV that he'd like to kill. A man after my own heart. Anyway, this week he recommended the assassination of President Bush and, following a complaint from the US Ambassador, who clearly has nothing better to do with his time (aren't there any Ferrero Rocher that need piling up into a pyramid or something?) the Guardian apologised. Apologised! Because their funniest columnist simply suggested a course of action that 99% of the world wants to see happen! It's shocking. These liberals have no balls at all.

Well, maybe some of them do. On yesterday's Newsnight, hat-wearing, self-appointed 'gumshoe journalist' Greg Palast produced a shocking report about what the Republicans are up to in Florida this time - yes, you guessed it, they're trying to prevent black people voting again. If you didn't see it I suggest you go to this site and watch it now. It's the kind of thing you know is probably happening, but that still doesn't prepare you for the shock of actually seeing how deeply vile and cynical these people are.

Great. Now I'm even more depressed. I'm going to have a cup of tea.

Posted by paul at October 27, 2004 07:02 PM

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