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Worried about the world? Do you fear that the US invasion of Iraq has failed to stabilize the region, diverted attention from Afghanistan, alienated our allies, and united our enemies? Don’t fret - it’s time to play It Could Be Worse (Middle East Edition)!
LONDON, England (CNN) — A deadly Israeli airstrike in […]

Yes, that’s right, all of the Fanatical Apathy personnel are either in transit or in meetings or indisposed. The only drawback right here is that your comments won’t technically be a digression, which will be a problem for all of you digression fans.
Have at it.

The release of “Schrödinger’s Ball” is now only three weeks away, and the literary world waits with baited breath. This might sound impressive (and, as siobhan points out below, incorrect), but if you’ve ever spent much time in a closed room with the literary world, you’d know that their breath is always baited. […]

Last week, Mo asked you to share good news. It was a good strategy - the news out of the Middle East is increasingly fallow soil for anyone looking to score some quick, topical laughs. Massive destruction, even impending massive destruction, just doesn’t get the big laughs. That’s why nobody watches ABC’s […]

From Reuters:
“Iraq as a political project is finished,” a top government official told Reuters — anonymously because the coalition led by the Shi’ite Muslim prime minister remains committed in public to a U.S.-sponsored constitution preserving Iraq’s unity.
Whoa. You hear that, over there? From under that plus-sized burkha? It sounds like slightly-muffled […]

Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards must be wheezing and rasping a sigh of relief today, now that that state’s Parole Board has approved an application for clemency submitted by Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee over a 31-year-old arrest.
A pardon will now be forwarded to Huckabee within 30 days. And he will no doubt sign this important […]

All right, everyone, I told you something big was in the works, and, well, here it is!
The Families for Life Eternal and Everlasting wish to pre-congratulate the President for his upcoming veto of the Senate’s stem cell research bill, and to help out, we are pleased to announce that FLEE’s new Foster Womb Program […]

My husband Bruno and I don’t have children, but we go and see each and every Pixar movie anyway. They’re good, and in LA, you never know when you’re going to run into John Ratzenberger socially.
Bruno liked “Cars.” It was zippy, and all the cars were actual cars, he tells me, each a cunning reference […]

This morning I boarded a plane in L.A., with the distinct feeling that the world is falling apart. I spent the next few hours reading through newspapers looking for news to make me feel better.
Now I’m sitting at O’Hare on a layover, my back turned defiantly to Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room, and I’m here […]

(NOTE: Dear Fanatical Apathy friends. This is a reprinted post from my other website, This Day In Mythstory. I thought it would be nice here too. Sorry we are so swampy of late. –CR)
Wish a happy birthday today to Gerald R. Ford, the notoriously clumsy, former Congressman from Michigan and former President of the United […]