The shock of it all

This is absolutely unbelievable. I've just read that George Galloway went to the House of Commons and voted today. Is this the first time he's voted since the session started? His voting record is the poorest of any MP, wish I could supply the link but I'm depending on my memory here.

That's the story, not Tony Blair's quixotic bid, which he knew he would lose, if not in the Commons, certainly in the House of Lords.

I'll bet the Prime Minister did this so we could see the true colours of the Tory party. They are as feeble an opposition party these days as the Democratic party is in the States.

The Penguin 'Great Ideas' series includes a David Hume booklet 'On Suicide' with this quote on the front:

"I believe that no man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."

While paging through it I found this quote:

"...when the mind operates alone, and feeling the sentiment of blame or approbation, pronounces one object deformed and odious, another beautiful and amiable; I say that, even in this case, those qualities are not really in the objects, but belong entirely to the sentiment of the mind which blames or praises."

"Except in this instance, when I am clearly right and you are clearly wrong." You didn't think I'd end with a Buffy quote, did you.