I am developing super BS skills. I think I have my lecture on Byzantine intellectual culture, to be delivered before an audience of friendly philhellenes, ready after half an hour of scribbling on a piece of paper and making notes. My main points are there and I am ready to give them all my enthusiasm in the process of delivery. Speaking of delivery I am already dreaming of pizza and comfort food while I sit with friends to see whether mr cardboard, currently repackaged into the Goracle, will get an Oscar, proceed to Oslo for the peace Nobel and then run for president. Still the food is not here yet and it is not clear that one should even wish for Gore to run once again. My only company is a furball on my side and the desire to check the news once more for more insigt in what appears as an inevitable slide towards US war against Iran. So I leave this for more news.