My Neighbors Keep Setting Off Explosives (Fireworks) In Their Backyard. It Makes My Dogs Bark

I don't know if you heard this or not- last week some English speaking people were inconvenienced by a couple of... well not car bombs exactly... Car devices. Some English speaking people were inconvenienced by car devices. It was all over the news. If you missed it check the links. I wouldn't recommend you search "London Car Bombs." You'd probably get a bunch of information on the IRA and other stuff you'd have to dismiss as crazy. I mean, white people- well, Irish people- as terrorists? That's absurd. But these almost events were all the rage on the 24 Hour news channels, newspapers, and the internets.

Really... you hadn't heard?

Well, in London, quick thinking paramedics identified a device that was releasing some horribly unpleasant odors and smoke. Police immediately responded and this led to the discovery of another device that might have caused some serious temporary ear ringing if it had worked like a bomb rather than a smoke machine. Phew.

Elsewhere, Glasgow specifically, a car was set on fire and crashed into a building by someone that wasn't necessarily a drunken soccer fan.

These may seem like near misses or part of the Global War On A Concept to you, but I don't think this was terrorism. It all needs to be put into context. England just enacted a rather stringent smoking ban. Seriously. Doesn't it make more sense that these people were protesting the smoking ban rather than to accept that we're fighting "them" over here- albeit a "here" across the Atlantic?

Whatever the reasons, it sure was scary. I saw live footage of club employees being evacuated from work. They were so strong in their hounds tooth pants and cooking jackets- waving at the cameras from behind the news correspondents- bravely talking and laughing with each other.

Heroes really...

Oh and some more people were killed in Iraq or something.