I saw Superman Returns on Saturday evening and it was really awesome. Great great great. I really like the fact that directors seem less afraid to make long films now. This is obviously only a good thing if the film itself is good, otherwise it’s just an expensive way to get a numb bottom.

But having more of a good film is what I enjoy. It’s nice having a slow build to the first big action sequence rather than something in the first five minutes.

Following on from my angry post about stem cells, where I mentioned in particular the specious list of “65 adult stem cell–based treatments”, that very list was invoked in yesterday’s Herald by the Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti.

So I got out my quill pen and finest sealing wax, and sent my servant off on the fastest horse to the presses in the West.

You can see I managed to write more succinctly than in my blog post. I also didn’t feel the need to tread softly. Surprisingly they hardly edited anything. (In the past they have removed whole paragraphs from some letters, so that they make a lot less sense.) The only difference that I could see was omission of the word ‘utter’ from the second paragraph.