Smog alert!

Smog alert - no kidding! I can just about stand running in the heat and humidity but it becomes near impossible when crud exceeds oxygen in the atmosphere. That was just horrible.

ETA: Half an hour later and my lungs feel like I've just smoked a pack of really nasty cigs.

US bars Muslim leader

This is the sort of thing that makes me despair of the US government. Do they really want to send the message to ordinary, law abiding Muslims that in the opinion of the United States there is no difference between them and a suicide bomber? You know what? That rapidly becomes true. If you treat reasonable people as enemies that's likely what they will become. If Tony Blair had an ounce of sense and decency he'd be reaming Bush over this nonsense. I'm not holding my breath.