In case anyone has wandered over from the Guardian‘s site, I thought I’d put on something to reward them: a quote from Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, on the crippling effect of oil price rises on the state: “the price of gasoline has gotten so high that Texas women who want to run over their husbands have to carpool”
(from Molly Ivins )
The reason there might by a few fresh readers this morning, is that my column on the Guardian’s web site finally got going yesterday. Since I spent all yesterday afternoon at the funeral of a close friend’s sister, watching his mother faint from grief, over and over, I’m clean out of jokes of my own.