If Things Get More Irony 'Round Here

I won't be able to walk past a magnet store without stopping.

His Royal Incredulity, Bush the Lesser, has just cast his first veto. On a bill that would have opened up stem cell research in the US.

This he did because he considers life sacred.

Not Lebanese life, you understand. Nor the lives of death-row inmates. But the life of what is essentially frozen, non-viable fertility clinic waste.

In Lebanon, Israel continues to show how it respects the sanctity of life by determining that it's far too precious for their neghbours to keep. The White House offers no comment.