Oh bother. Oh bother.

A couple in China set the record for world’s longest marriage (85 years). [Mildly racist joke deleted here]

Al-Jazeera is suppressed in Kuwait as being not “objective.”

A good summary of the oil motivation in US foreign policy in Central Asia, Iraq, Latin America...

In all the stories about the assassination of several alleged Al Qaida in Yemen, I have yet to see any hint about whether it was with or without the Yemeni government’s permission or knowledge.

Ariel Sharon says that after the “free world” defeats Iraq, it should go after Iran. And then maybe Libya.

The Turkish electoral system was evidently brilliantly set up so that the votes of 47% of the voters, those who voted for any of the 16 parties that got less than 10% of the vote, were just thrown in the garbage. Because as we know from our own country, there really is no need for more than two parties, when the full spectrum of ideas is covered in a debate between, say, Gray Davis and Bill Simon (whose neck seems to be getting thicker by the day). Of course when we get a third party guy in office, it’s some moron like Jesse Ventura, whose neck is even thicker than Simon’s and whose skin is so thin as to put the princess and the pea princess to shame. Where was this sensitivity when Assistant Secretary of State Otto Reich implied he was going to Cuba for sex tourism?

I have just received a call from Martin Sheen asking me to vote for Gray Davis. Now is this the good President Martin Sheen from West Wing, or the bad President Martin Sheen from The Dead Zone?

In searching the IMDB researching that last sentence, I came across a short film called Apocalypse Pooh (under 8 minutes, they will make you see a 30 second preview first) which superimposes dialogue from Apocalypse Now over a Winnie the Pooh film. Hilarious.

Well, I will vote after all. Today’s Tom Toles cartoon suggests that my vote really will count, because the negative ads will have so turned everyone off that only 3 people will vote in the entire country.