New Baghdad Hotness
Did you hear the newest joke going around Baghdad these days? It goes something like this:
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
JDAM.
JDAM w…
BOOOM!
Bias, Thy Name Is "Passive Voice"
My wife noted this morning that there's something wrong when CNN and Al Jazeera correspondents have been kicked out of Iraq and Newsday journalists have been thrown into prison, yet NPR remains in Baghdad. Today's disgraceful report on the suicide/homicide car bombing in N-central Iraq very nearly pushed me over the edge.
NPR is truly [...]
U.S. Troops Reach Baghdad Airport, forced to wait in line because they forgot to print their e-ticket boarding pass.
Monitor Coffee Spit-take
Today's Bleat by James Lileks just about made me spit my coffee out, particularly this line: [H]ow do you know a Ba'athist is lying? His mustache is moving. And we curse it! Also laughable was
Across the street is a gigantic assembly building of some kind, perhaps the National House of Enthusiastic Rubber Stamping. [...]
Priceless
I don't mean to rip this directly from The Corner, but it's too good not to repost here in its entirety:
THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION [Jonah Goldberg]
I don't want to risk any US soldiers lives for a photo-op, but wouldn't it be awesome if we could get troops inside that briefing room during one of this [...]
Kettle, This Is Pot, Do You Read Me?
I'm listening in on an al Jazeera interview (being rebroadcast on CNN) with Iraq's information minister. He just referred to the Coalition forces currently knocking at his doorstep as "racists, Nazis and fascists".
Wow. I'm laughing. Are you?
