Pegged to reservations

MI5, the British Security Service, is expanding. Sort of. It won’t hire men taller than 5’11” or women of 5’8,” because they stand out in a crowd.

The RNC threatens 250 tv stations, threatening that they will lose their licenses if they run MoveOn.org’s ad.

A statistician says there is a 67% chance that God exists. The Grauniad, being a British paper, immediately tried to find out if they could place a bet. No, but the odds are 1,000/1 on the second coming.

The temporary pointless Iraqi constitution was finally signed today, although the Shiites immediately said that they didn’t mean it--their signatures were “pegged to reservations.” See how many of the triumphalist news stories that last phrase makes it into.

The US has increased the number of countries in which its soldiers have killed locals under George Bush by one today: Haiti.

Monologist Spalding Gray did commit suicide.

The R’s are talking about Kerry voting against 27 weapons systems. Most of this was a single vote in 1991. Some of the systems on that list were considered useless pork at the time by President Bush (the Bush whom you can call president without using quotation marks) and then secretary of defense Dick Cheney. Hasn’t stopped Cheney attacking Kerry on these grounds.

Remember Shrub’s Thanksgiving photo-op with the troops? Turns out the Iraqi sub-contractor that provided that meal still hasn’t been paid by Halliburton (and for $87m worth of other meals for the troops).

I haven’t mentioned Cyprus much, but there will be a vote April 20th on a reunification plan. It was originally a different date but had to be changed to one that wasn’t the anniversary of a coup in Greece. Which can’t have been easy to find.

55% of the Dutch prison population is foreign-born.

Afghan Puppet Prez Karzai, on International Women’s Day: “Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.”

The Republicans on why Kerry is a North Korean stooge, or something (and they caught up with him being related to a French environment minister, which I mentioned weeks ago).