Down this twisted path one's fate becomes less clear I'm just fiddling about at the moment, trying to add a 'comments' link to this blog. But while I'm at it I will say that the recall election in California is beginning to look like a non-starter. At least I hope it's quashed when the electorate casts its votes.

And the dying continues in Iraq – today both sides of the forces, Iraqi police and American soldiers, lost people to bullets that should not have been fired.

But what the hell, mistakes happen in war, right? That's just the way it goes. Life is cheap when war is the venue.