Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Many of us are familiar with the Childcare Action Project’s fundamentalist Christian movie reviews. On a similarly amusing note, via BoingBoing, we now learn of the Maoist International Movement’s video game reviews. Example quote:
Under capitalism, game-makers produce what is profitable. Under the joint dictatorship of the proletariat of the oppressed nations over imperialism, games glorifying […]

And to think it isn’t even April 1 today.
Yeah. The “WTF?” reflex combined with the bottlenecking of a big pile of smartass comments has rendered me mute, so I think I’ll do the merciful thing and leave you with that link.

Bush
demands Syria withdraw from Lebanon and also
extradite
all members of the Iraqi Baath Party seeking refuse in Syria.
Though it would be great to get Syria out of Lebanon without
a war, Bush’s bluster makes me think Syria ought to tell the US
that they expect the US’s full cooperation in advancing Syria’s
national interests.

Lebanon’s
opposition is demanding the government abdicate […]

Iran and Syria declare an alliance
John Negroponte appointed as National Intelligence Director
The new head of the House Ethics Committee fired the guys who investigated Tom Delay
Canadian PM Paul Martin’s speech in support of gay marriage
Anti-war preacher raises a ruckus at a Baptist college.
Interview with a Christian Democrat
Another Iraqi prisoner mildly physically abused to death
Iraq mercenaries […]

We talk a lot, we critique a lot, we float ideas a lot. We’re Democrats, we’re bloggers, that’s our thing. But.. what would you say if you were invited to a head-to-head match with a single Republican, each of you getting to bring your favorite ammo to the table, in something more than […]

We’ve got quickies…

The CIA reclassified and seized Senator Scoop Jackson’s papers, which were published over 20 years ago
Bush admin. forbids US Gulf War PoWs tortured by Iraq from collecting compensation
A judge in Tennessee ordered a Spanish-speaking mother to learn English or lose her child. NCCPR, a group I’ve never heard of, has issued a press […]

Crooked Timber has an article from economist Peter Griffiths on badly-run World Bank programs causing famine. I’ll just copy the same excerpt as xnerg did:

I read it incredulously. It was a formal agreement that the Government of Sierra Leone would immediately stop importing food — and this in a country where Government imported half […]

We interrupt this blog for this important announcement from Homeland Security [2MB; NSFW]

Just a bunch of quickies right now, mostly on media, terrorism, and science.

“Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Madame Secretary,
members of Congress, my Joint Chiefs, members of the military,
IRS agents, postal service employees, fellow citizens, fellow convicts,
illegal immigrants, illegal combatants, that guy from Cuba
that Jenna boinked last week, Canadians… We’ve been placed
in office by the votes of the people we serve, a privilege
we share with newly elected leaders […]