Python Terry Jones steps out of drag and crunches the num­bers on the Iraq war (spot­ted on Neil Gaiman’s Jour­nal):

This will bring the total spent on the White House’s cur­rent obses­sion with war to almost $500bn — enough to have given every US cit­i­zen $1,600 each. I won­der which the vot­ers would have gone for if given the choice: shall we (a) give every Amer­i­can $1,600 or (b) spend the money on bomb­ing a coun­try in the Mid­dle East that doesn’t use lava­tory paper?

Of course, there’s another thing that George Bush could have done with the money: he could have given every Iraqi $18,700.

A dream inter­view, no mat­ter which way around: RAW runs the com­plete tran­scrip­tion of Alan Moore vs Brian Eno orig­i­nally on BBC Radio 4.

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