Semi Truths

I would like to suggest a proposal regarding the Iran nuclear situation that, to my knowledge, has not yet been put forward.

The Administration is worried that Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear power generation are just a guise for developing nuclear weapons. Pundits are proclaiming that, once it is a nuclear power, Iran will threaten Israel. The International community favors diplomacy, the White House prefers saber rattling, and the rest of us think this all sounds awfully familiar and wonder whether the U.S. is going to invade Iran tomorrow or wait until the weekend…

I say: let ‘em have The Bomb.

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(This brilliant image was emailed to me and I don’t know the original source. If you know, leave me a comment.)

Nuts, I wanted to be the first…

Maciej Ceglowski of idlewords.com has created an inspired parody of the Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Preparedness Website (and I hope he doesn’t mind that I shamelessly stole his brilliant graphics).

Speaking of brilliant graphics, Mike Konopacki has created a marvelous flash animation at Solidarity.com updating the old Bert the Turtle civil defense films.

If you’ve been watching the news (or, indeed, if you live in the Eastern Time Zone and you’ve looked out your window) you know the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. has been blanketed with several feet of snow. Here in Virginia, everything has just ground to a halt for a few days while we dig ourselves out. Most folks have simply stayed home.

MY JOKE OF THE WEEK: “I just wrapped myself in plastic sheets and duct tape and walked to work...”

I love this piece by Andy Borowitz from his satirical website The Borowitz Report:

Bush Blames Blizzard On Saddam
Evildoer Drops Two Feet of Snow on Northeast, White House Says

President Saddam Hussein of Iraq dropped between one and two feet of snow on the Northeastern United States today, closing airports and creating hazardous driving conditions, President George W. Bush revealed.

“To those in the world who say that Mr. Saddam Hussein poses no threat, I�d ask you to take a look outside your window,” President Bush said in a White House press briefing this afternoon. “It’s a freaking mess out there.”