Bush/Blair - the legacy lives on

So Medvedev sends his troops into Georgia. Who could countenance such an unprovoked brutal invasion of another sovereign state in this day and age? Oh, that's right, we've been there. I can here the tinkle of smashed panes in glass houses.
Still, I think what it really amounts to is a divertionary tactic by the Russian hierarchy to take their people's mind off the Olympic Games and make them feel they've got some clout in the world still. They're being tatered by Team GB, for goodness sake.
I do kind of like watching Medvedev on the telly, though, as I'm a great fan of Gerry Anderson's classic sixties series, the ones where you could see them pulling the strings. Here, of course, it's Putin who's the puppet-master. The invasion of Georgia: filmed in Supermarionation!

Beijing 2008

It's a load of old wank that the Games should have gone to Beijing, but now they're there I'm watching them, of course.
I must confess my admiration at the spectacle of the opening ceremony. I'm wondering how London might match, let alone top, that in 2012.
I figure that in order to get such well-choreographed excellence we'll need to install martial law at least 18 months before the Games begin, in order to get the participants ship-shape and Bristol fashion and all toeing the same line.

Strike it lucky

Ten-year old boy stabbed to death in frenzied attack around the back of his house while family parties out front - luck strikes once.
Chap wins 35 million euros on Euromillions - luck strikes twice.
Good luck, bad luck: strike it lucky.
Life - you've got to be in it to win it.