(andy) a brief but needed apology - to say mat p's jumping on a bandwagon is of course highly inaccurate - i vaguely remember mat p blogging looonngg ago, when i barely new what the internet was... so he's not so much jumping on a bandwagon as blazing the trail it will follow.

well anyway, friday is upon us and the weekend is nigh.


actually, some odd things've happened to me in the past few days. if you remember a while ago on this very blog i demonstarated my complete lack of knwoledge of current affairs with the firestrike in particular. this did shock me a little, and although i didnt do anything about it at the time, reading the blog bea made recently mentioning the guardian website, i thought, maybe i could spend a few minutes a day going there and reading the headlines. and given that the whole country is going on about the war in iraq, i thought it might be a good idea to find out what all the fuss is about.

so i went to the website, and read a few headlines about the al-queada (sp?), bin ladens message from the grave, the bali bomber being as pleased as punch, a pentagon hawks slating of europe for being too liberal, scary-ass warnings sent to any country that sides with the "butchers in the whitehouse" or whatever they said, blair saying about all the bomb threats we get everyday. once i got over the fact not a lot of them were as antiwar as i'd expect from the guardian, i found myself thinking things that i maybe shouldnt and getting really opinionated.

fortunately i wont be airing them here... other than that, now i've read the papers once or twice i've found i'd rather be ignorant than opinionated and judgemental.