Politics, government, & the military

Pentagon frantically tries to subdue a dove, in world's best symbolism

In response, a snowboarding and Harley-riding John Kerry kills and eats doves

Workers lose pay because Bush used their factory to speak about jobs

Bush/Blair nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Bush asks for repeal of small nuke ban; Senate consents

Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La) endorsed a book on tax evasion
(Second paragraph from the end.)

CNN writes obits for the pre-dead
(Cheney, Reagan, Castro, Pope John Paul II, and Mandela.)
The obit mockups

Iraqi Information Minister [carolyn]

...and his talking doll [robin]

Flowers for Bush

Kim Jong Il's blog [gnat]

Leaflets we dropped in Iraq

Greenspun's history of Israel (long)

Vatican might not be the smallest state in the world. Or even Rome. [jhi]

Spain has an enclave in France [jhi]

Saddam's Thursday poem
"Unsheath your sword and let Saturn bear witness"?

Elie Wiesel is pro-war

Get Your War On 22

Largest Iraqi banknote worth $0.0008

Blog from Iraqi in Baghdad

National Guardsman names himself after a Transformer

Best erratum ever (New York Times, February 14, 2003):

Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about diplomatic developments in the Iraq crisis misidentified the Bush administration official who said about the weapons inspectors in Iraq, "At some point it will become obvious that it's time for them to go." It was an administration official speaking on condition of anonymity, not Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser.

Navy Sea Lions

Army Chickens

Country with one of the world's highest per-capita incomes now cut off from the rest of the world; no one knows who's president

There are radiation detectors in our subways disguised as telephone cell relays
(New Scientist coverage)

The coolest law firm ever

EU declares Britain is not an island

LAPD bomb checklist

Actually, the LAPD web site in general is pretty awesome, if you're nine

Footage of AC-130 gunship picking off people in Afghanistan like a video game

In February 2001 Enron presented an imposing facade, but insiders knew better: they were desperately struggling to keep their Ponzi scheme going. When one top executive learned of millions in further losses, his e-mailed response summed up the whole strategy: "Close a bigger deal. Hide the loss before the 1Q."

The strategy worked. Enron collapsed, but not before insiders made off with nearly $1 billion. The sender of that blunt e-mail sold $12 million in stocks just before they became worthless. And now he's secretary of the Army.

Paul Krugman, Cronies in Arms, The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2002.

Law school in a nutshell (Legalese from a computer scientist's point of view)

Suicide bomb gambling (Jerusalem odds were 1.5:1 when I read this, and sure enough, Jerusalem was the next target.)

Israeli flying casinos(No word if you'll be able to bet on bombings.)

"Martyr necklaces" replace Pokemon among some Palestinian youth (Imagine the world reaction if Israelis did the equivalent.)

Finland fines speeders in proportion to their income

Press release about Reagan's death already written [gnat]

Library of Congress activates humor sequence (Sightings of Elvis cannot be copyrighted, but photos of sightings can)

Post office auctions off dead letters [gnat] (If they consider mail undeliverable, they can sell it)

Angry Art Deco eagle on new USPS postage stamp [rre]

Then-Senator Ashcroft argues that government should respect net privacy [gnat]

Get your war on

Journalist visits Camp X-Ray; humorous report on conditions

Bush sends yen tumbling when he mistakenly calls for "devaluation" instead of "deflation"

Bush defines "greenhouse gas intensity" as "greenhouse gas" divided by "size of the economy" [gnat]

iPod used to store New Jersey property taxes. (iPod = hard disk) [machack]

OSHA draws you a picture: "typical" workplace accidents [carolyn]

Kinder, gentler sharia to use smaller rocks for stoning

Bush unfamiliar with "Sex and the City", vegans

Post Office now lets you create documents online [mbertsch] (Now you don't have to leave your home)

Italian right-wing politicians seek hobbit vote [gnat]

New Chinese word for "death by overwork": guolaosi

In-depth profile of Saddam (as if there weren't enough reasons to hate him, his favorite wine is a Mateus Rose')

CEO of herbal multilevel marketing company named Bizzaro sees everything wrong. He not like air marshals wearing baseball cap backwards.

Is the military hiring adolescent boys as web designers? (Released shortly after the anthrax outbreak)

Who ya gonna call? The CIA seems to have a counterterrorism mascot.

Karl Rove powerpoint presentation about congressional races left on floppy disk in park [gnat]

Think tanks around the world [rre]

Humorous town mottos

Prince Philip offends with off-color jokes [gnat]