fools

The other day, Harriet Harman, a Member of Parliament, visited her constitution of Peckham in a stab-proof Kevlar vest. Peckham, in the south of London, not only has a bad rep but also corners you wouldn't want to visit during the day and areas you'd avoid at all cost at night. Gang violence runs high, and every now and then, teenagers are killed in brawls. The Member of Parliament likened her wearing a protective vest to "wearing a hairnet at a food factory or a hard hat at a building site" as if violence was the way of doing business there. Wouldn't you think someone on an official tour was safe, especially if surrounded by police, as was the case? Maybe the appropriate protective gear would have been a pair of diapers. Given how afraid she was, she might have wet her pants. In any case, she certainly made a fool of herself.

I was gonna add something about the funny folks at Citroën who fool no one by claiming that they've finally, after decades of trying, created a large sedan of exceptional quality, one liable to make the German competition wet its pants. Unfortunately, their website doesn't work without glitches. How you extrapolate that to their cars is up to you.

The BBC, on the other hand, are no fools, and their site works. Here's an amazing video showing footage never before seen of penguins going the way of the peregrine falcon. It turns into a sort of fake-life Madagascar towards the end, but the beginning is incredibly well done. Get ready to be fooled.

And yes, all of this should have been posted yesterday.