Four runs

Here they are:

> The Stoical Stoa is back from France. Pay him a visit. He's blogging like there's no tomorrow.

> Dear readers, labouring in the vineyard on my Momma 'n' Daddy series, do I kid myself that there's a huge interest in it out there? I do not. I know you often skip past those posts, saying to yourself, 'That damned country music thing again.' (Yes, it's you I'm talking about.) Imagine how pleased I was, therefore, to come upon this. Somebody noticed! And all thanks to Emily. Thanks, Emily.

> Then, via their link to Andy Anthony's piece on The Line of Beauty yesterday I came across this blog - by 'a gang of people who like books'. Check them out.

> Finally, I'm seeking help from anyone who can offer it on this bizarre matter. Tim Blair links to a paragraph from a report in The Age:

On July 7 three trains and a bus in London killed 56 people - including the four suspected suicide bombers - and wounded 700.

Can anyone offer a hypothesis, speculative as you want, about how that came to be written and then got through whatever editorial process The Age uses? I mean, if it's an effort in dissipating human responsibility... well, it surely can't be; it would be too stupid. So how did it come about?