Zaphod for President

According to Reuters: Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops [the surge]
According to Iraq coalition casualties, between June 15, 07 and October 12, 07 (the height of the surge; a period of 58 days), we lost 317 Americans in […]

Today, I’ve returned to the “Conspiracy Coast” as President Zaphod dubs it. Upon my return, we’ve hired a gentleman that has been staying at a neighbor’s house across the street to paint our house. This is no ordinary gentleman, this man happens to be a Vietnam era Purple Heart recipient.
My new neighbor wasn’t drafted […]

In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?

From Gulfnews.com:

Baghdad: Iraqi Interior Ministry sources have said that American and British security firms have started to leave Iraq.
“We have information from Baghdad airport saying that 90 to 120 individuals working for the private security firm, Blackwater, are leaving Baghdad every day in an American military aircraft, this is in addition to more than 44 […]

Imagine this: a montage of Joseph Stalin as the Cold War escalates into the Korean War.
I think it works.
UPDATE: I have no idea why this is playing in “chipmunk mode”. The original is here.

Elvis Presley, 1969. Possibly the most accidentally hysterical song of all time.