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INT. POLICE CHIEF ANNAN’S OFFICE - DAY
[Chief Annan, harried, looks up from his piles of paperwork.]
ANNAN: Captain Bush, get yer ass in here!
[Captain Bush, still dirty from his last heroic exercise in rough justice (see “RJ III”), saunters in. He casually slides into a chair, putting muddied boots on Annan’s desk.]
BUSH: Wanted […]

Only time will tell what turns out to be the Historic Image from yesterday’s Azores Summit, but as F.A. predicted, every effort was made to “get a Yalta.” Part of the problem, however, was the host, Portugese Prime Minister Jose Durao Barroso, who seemed intent on horning in on the photo op. [Of […]

“Leaders of the United States, Britain and Spain will hold an emergency summit on Sunday in a last-gasp diplomatic effort to bridge deep divisions in the U.N. Security Council over their troubled resolution authorizing war on Iraq. President Bush will travel to Portugal’s windswept Azores islands, 900 miles west of the European mainland, to […]

When we lost the Turkish Parliament vote, we demanded a do-over. When France signaled their intractability, we yelled, “Aw, nuts to you! We were only pretending to like you anyway!” And now that it looks like we won’t be getting those extra Security Council votes, well, we’re just gonna take our ball […]

I’ve got far too much to do today to treat this appropriately, so let’s consider this a mental bookmark for future fun, all right?
Prime Minister Tony Blair has offered a new set of conditions for Iraq to adhere to in order to avoid an international pantsing. Among these labors from Labour is the demand […]

Hot on the heels of a National Academy of Sciences study that alleges that current “clean” Alaskan oil drilling has caused significant environmental damage, Rep. Don Young is standing tall and preparing to reintroduce his bill to allow drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
Among the so-called “details” of the so-called “NAS’” so-called “report” are […]

From: George J. Tenet
To: All personnel
Re: Evidence
As most of you may have heard, some of our recent evidence against Iraq, vis a vis their correspondence with Nigeria, was just found out to be a complete fake.
I don’t need to tell you that this is a bit of a black eye for the […]

It’s been a couple of weeks now since the announcement of the creation of a liberal radio network to combat the conservative infestation of the airwaves. The network’s being planned by Anshell Media, and they’re still in the early stages of development.
Several of you loyal readers have written to me about this, […]

Wherein Our Blogger Once Again Simultaneously Breaks his Vows of Frivolity and Pundit-Blindness
As longtime readers know, I shy away from commenting on commentators. The infinite regress of the punditry echo chamber makes my head hurt, and a world where we actually have to debate whether Ann Coulter has anything responsible or non-toxic to say […]

“He was interested, he was listening to me. We were very frank and clear … of course I think he appreciates the efforts of the Holy Father…”
- Cardinal Pio Laghi, on his meeting with President Bush to express the Pope’s Iraq concerns.
LAGHI: …and that is why the Holy Father implores you to seek a […]