You cannot resist the Flying Spaghetti Monster Hat.
The Pope has a special hat. Rabbis have special hats. Rastafarians have special hats. Why not Pastafarians?
Bush threatens to veto non-Iraq overspending
Because, you know, we can only manage one giant money pit at a time.
Updates from my previous posts, in case you’re still keeping score:
- Weapons of Mass Destruction found before invasion: 0
- Weapons of Mass Destruction declared by US before invasion: LOTS
- US Cost in dollars: 275,000,000,000
- US military deaths: 2,390
- Iraqi civilians killed: 34,500
- Weapons of Mass Destruction found after invasion: 0
- U.S. timeline to leave Iraq: NONE
- Generals calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation: 6
full tables, empty pockets, and open Gates
I just stumbled across an odd little op-ed about a dinner that Bill Gates held for the president of China. The event itself wasn’t nearly as interesting as the author’s interpretation of it from a Chinese culinary (and gusto-political) standpoint:
…To us Chinese, eating is not just about filling up the stomach. It is an art that we love to overindulge ourselves with. It may be the only art form that remains legal and yet savoured by people across every social stratum.
The main reason we would overdo all these things is because we live in scarcity or constant fear of it. When one barely has enough to eat, he makes sure that once a year he can eat like there’s no tomorrow.
There’s a reverse correlation between abundance of food and conspicuous consumption of food…
For the pilot of a Jumbo Jet?
Izzard fans will get why I’m attracted to this recipe for a giant Jammie Dodger. (Grumble grumble Jammie Dodger…)
United States is no help to Iraqi women
Sigh.
United States is no help to Iraqi women
A new poll of leaders of Iraqi women’s-rights groups finds that women were treated better and their civil rights were more secure under deposed President Saddam Hussein than under the faltering and increasingly sectarian U.S.-installed government.