Recent reading
Over the last 6 months, I have read Will Hutton's "The World We're In", Michael Moore's, "Stupid White Men" and I am currently devouring Naom Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival. America's Quest for Global Dominance." I defy any person with average intelligence and education to read these works and admit that they are not deeply concerned about where the Bush regime is taking the world. Americans should know that the world outside America is frightened by the outrageous behaviour of your government. We are normal law-abiding, peace loving people, who are shocked by a group of very dangerous people at the top of your establishment.
Perhaps we are lucky in that we are not yet assaulted by outrageous "shock-jocks", bullshit from Fox News and crazy media who accept every distortion put out by the Neo-con spin machine.
I have read other books too - including "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynn Truss, James Joyce's "Dubliners" (again), Don DeLillo's "Underworld" and "White Noise", and many British and US short stories.