Such a horror, oh such a farce!

Sunday. A day of rest. What better day than to talk about... peace on earth & goodwill to all men

Now, for those friends of mine who been living under a rock for the last XX days then you may or may not need a reminder that the publication of these pictures in a Danish newspaper have prompted such great anger and furious vengance that there has been the burning of Danish flags, Norwegian flags (?), the Swiss flag (?? - probably just because it's a white cross on a red field) and now the American Flag (???)

The comedian David Mitchell remarked last week they're not *really* just the countries' flags; they're the flags of the protestors who burn them! That's why guys like this are in business!

Anyway, burning flags is dangerous, it could have someone's eye out!

But it's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim. It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, DEAD!! (It's life, Jim. but not as we know it...)

And does unfortunately misguided humour really equate to calls for a real holocaust, threats of terror and actually setting fire to embassies? Well people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

The upside of this international debacle is that you could win a car or get your satirical retribution against the west published (yes all of the west, not just the evil Danes, but the Christians, Pagans, Atheists etc too) if you insult the Jews.

But don't worry, there will be no condemnation of the contradictions here, for freedom of speech is important but we must do our best not to insult, though I do wonder just how long this will go on for and whether I should rally my own militia of volatile hotheads against artistic impressions of global warming, the processes used in "farming" the land or even the r@pe of mother earth; all of these illustrations insulting to my own icon of belief. (Actually it's true, it's real, I'm standing on it right now. Can you see it too?)

Anyway, does anyone else see the utter irony in the term "Cartoon Riots"? It's like "Kitty Deathsquads", "Poofy Barbarians" or Harry Enfield's "Gay Hitler"

But I waffle, I digress, so back to the title of this post...

Back in 1987 I bought the 7" EP of New Model Army's fantastic single White Coats with the great B-Side "Chinese Whispers", a song whose lyrics have stuck with me for nearly 20 years, especially the verse...

"Such horror, oh such a farce,
a little bit of broken glass.
You should think yourself lucky that this was done
You'll have something you can whine about for years to come."

Now, whoever you are, if you've still got my vinyl I'd like it back please!