TODAY WE COMMENTED ON:

Is banning plastic bags a side issue? The Government's War On Plastic Bags is nothing more than a diversionary tactic.

Whoops! She did it again has Cherie Blair SHAG! suddenly developed SHAGWANK! Tourette's syndrome or is she just trying to push herself SHAG! into the spotSHAG!light

Who Will Be McCain's Running Mate - Condi Rice? I think not Times Online speculates about a running mate for John McCain. What we noticed is the most obvious candidate is not in the list. But surely after all he has done for the Republicans they could fast track U.S. citizenship for Tony Blair and get him on the ticket.

Dizzy Thinks - Government's five-a-day diet
We - well fatsally anyway - were on the case of the government's latest five-a-day promotion a week ago, but this post from satirical blogger Dizzy is still worth a read.

MPs must stay out of family planning Simon Jenkins writing in The Times advises MPs to keep their noses out of family planning. Ian argues that with the country bulging at the seams is it right to be promoting IVF rather than birth control.

Crewsing for a bruisingHow bad a beating will Labour take in Crewe?

Erica Jong on why Brak Obama will be a bad candidate

All this week fataslly has been chronicling the cringeworthy sexual revelations in Cherie Blair’s memoir. Being an altogether less prurient individial (Ian raided the Pigs Might Fly box for that statement – JG) I have managed to avoid these tales of forgotten contraceptive equipment and the deflowering of young Cherie on the top deck of a Number 69 bus.
Today however, the Blair Memorandum did manage to catch my eye for a different reason. It was this quotation wot done it:
The one thing I know is Tony is a person of integrity and that he was absolutely doing everything he could to avoid a war.

Skipping over the dodgy placement of “absolutely” and the implicit suggestion Chrie’s book was ghost written by No. 1 International Bestselling Author Katie Price, and the small point that the “one thing” she knew is actually two things, we note that Tony was actually doing everything he could to avoid a war except for saying, “Look George, there is absolutely no evidence Saddam has Weapons Of Mass Destruction so I can’t commit British forces to an invasion.”
Or should that be in Cherie-ese; there absolutely is no evidence.”

TODAY WE COMMENTED ON:
Pajamasmedia - the backlash begins

Balloon Juice - Super Delegates