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Still nothing interesting going on in my life. Still in pain, though not as badly. Although I did feel faint and nauseous on the way home this evening, just from the back pain. Blah.

I have some thoughts about various of the current news events, but they are too unformed to go out in public just yet. I am wondering, though... why does the press insist on calling Saddam Hussein "Saddam"? Do Iraqi names go with the surname first, like Korean? Or are we supposed to think he sits around saying "George and Tony are really pissing me off"?

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I have also noticed that this week, and I had thought of it being his surname without knowing for sure whether it was his "christian" (islam?) or family name. I also thought that if it said "Hussein" it would be more ambiguous and could potentially refer to Nasser Hussein the cricketer...
I am sure however if Saddam was the "islam" name that would be what the school-boy british press would call him because it contains the word "sad"!