". . . whenever they were talking about the unions and the bosses and there was a possibility of a strike, the unions would always 'threaten to strike.' The bosses would then 'warn of the consequences.' It was never that the bosses would threaten to make all these cutbacks and the unions would then warn that the consequences would be a strike. The unions were always the aggressors and the bosses were responding. It's the same with Israel and the Palestinians. One is always depicted as the aggressor and the other is always defending itself."

"Python swallows Bush!" is an interview with Python (as in Monty's), Mediaeval scholar and author Terry Jones, by Laura Miller at Salon. (This link, among others, has been sitting in storage as a "draft" post at Blogger, so it's a little old; but it's still informative and stimulating reading. So.)