Pick your favorite and insert here.

For some inexplicable reason, my favorite is this one:

I haven't posted in awhile. I was planning on working more on my chibi characters.

But I admit, this one is hard to beat.

Pimp My Roach

The ultimate fashion statement! A real, live giant Madagascar hissing cockroach! A roach you can wear! But this is not just any roach! No, when you step out, this roach brings the bling! Order yours today!

Via MetaFilter. (Click through for more weirdness.)

A lame joke, in poor taste.

Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) recently got the boot because of his fondness for "naughty" emails and instant messages.

What are his two favorite keys on the computer keyboard?

Why?

A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet estimates that 655,000 Iraqis have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion of and subsequent occupation of Iraq.

And those deaths have not made me, nor anyone else in the U.S., nor anyone anywhere in the world, any safer than they were before the invasion. On the contrary, we are all now less safe.

And all those deaths have been in vain.

Things that go "boom" in the night.

We woke up today to a world in which North Korea has demonstrated unambiguously* that it possesses nuclear weapons.

So how did we get here?

If there is any doubt in your mind, read what Josh Micah Marshal has to say on the matter.

* Update: Maybe it's not so unambiguous after all. Most bizarre.

Olbermann Redux

There is one word in Dan Froomkin's take on Keith Olbermann's "special comments" that sticks in my craw. Can you guess what it is?

If you can't figure it out, there's a hint in the comments.

Good luck, indeed. We'll need it.

Why aren't there any Democratic politicians* with even half the eloquence of Keith Olbermann?

Watch Keith take President Bush to task in his latest commentary. Part 1. Part 2. Transcript here.

Via LeisureGuy, whose blog consistently delivers the trifecta of no-nonsense politics, cat pictures, and shaving lore.

* with the possible exception of Barack Obama and the obvious exception of William J. Clinton, ret.

I said "Terraplane," not "Terror Plane."

Given that Robert Johnson is on the no-fly list, and there's no way he's getting off it, his decision to "catch a Greyhound bus and ride" seems very pragmatic.

Now available without a prescription.

When the time comes to do a rigorous scientifc study of this new cure for hiccups, what will they use as a placebo?

And that's not a euphemism.

"The nearly four-acre basin was constructed about two years ago and 'took some of the load off of the pipe downstream'. . . "

Via Grow-a-Brain.