London

Looks like the Olympic-bid celebration will have to be cut short. Not to make light of the situation, having spent many enjoyable nights in London myself, but the pall this puts on all the recent events (G8, Live8, Olympics, etc.) is pretty staggering. One wonders how Blair's government will respond. I found his televised statement infinitely more sincere than any of Bush's tough-guy post 9/11 speeches, but after what happened in Spain in March '04, who can say which paradigm will be followed in Britain.

One thing I do know is that whenever there is terrorism we should blame it on a shadowy network of Arabs and use it to justify ideolically motivated expansionist war... Because that is a totally effective way of stopping future terrorist attacks. Oh wait...

Instead, perhaps we should fight the real enemies, who are, of course, homosexuals seeking to marry. Sorry. Wrong again.