Bickering, Slum Landlords, Graphicness

I have no idea who Jill Dunsmore is, but I must thank her for providing the first – and so far only – review of Johnny Hazzard on Amazon.com

Here is the review in all its splendour:

I found this book difficult to read because it was WAY too dirty for me!! It was a tale about a boy who lives temporarily with his dad and older sister in London, where he meets a beautiful young girl who he basically has sexual intercourse with. It’s very dirty, and is very difficult to read because of all of the graphicness of the book.

I am genuinely touched and delighted with this. Basic sexual intercourse and graphicness is about as good as life gets.

In other matters, I stayed up till 3am last night to watch the latest, and by far most farcical instalment in this year’s Presidential Circus. It was the Democratic Candidates’ debate, live from South Carolina, where the primary is held on Saturday.

Sideshow Wolf of CNN was back for more lily-livered debate-chairing, allowing himself to be run all over by Obama and Clinton inbetween crap questions such as “Was Bill Clinton the first black president?” You couldn’t make this stuff up if you smoked five joints, drank seven shots of Tequila and listened to early Blue Oyster Cult all night. America needs some proper political journalists, and fast.

As usual, Edwards wiped the floor and the CNN focus group, made up of 16 undecided South Carolinians, voted by a clear majority that he had won the debate. However, when asked who they would vote for on Saturday, they opted for Obama because he had ” a better chance of winning the Democratic nomination”. Hardly surprising they should think that, given the media blackout on John Edwards and the media love-in for the black man vs white woman pitch.

But the ugliest spectacle last night was the hideous bickering over nothing-very-significant between the celebrity candidates. Honestly, do Americans want either of these petty careerists running for office? Watch and weep (particularly fun bit at around 3:05):

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