I've been having a lot of fun with this lately. Especially the prank phone calls section. Thanks to Mike Morrison for the tip.

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] This site is a coalition effort of bloodthirsty hawks and
] ineffectual doves united in admiration for Mohammed Saeed
] al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on
] administrative leave).

Wasn't sure whether to put this in the humor or current events topic ;)

We Love the Iraqi Information Minister

"Iraq has a new regime, and that regime is love, baby" "These arms are fo' huggin"

-- I might add that there's another version of this picture that appeared on FoxNews where she had the rifle pointed at him, which I found particularly ironic.

Operation:Iraqi mackin'

] Pound for pound, who's the biggest, richest media mogul
] on the Web? Terry Semel? Nope. Sumner Redstone? Not
] exactly. Try Matt Drudge. Years after his big "scoop" --
] leaking that Newsweek was sitting on a story about the
] tryst between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky --
] Drudge's website is bigger than ever. Run on a
] shoestring, the Drudge Report, a plain-Jane page of news
] links and occasional scoops, clears, by our
] back-of-the-envelope estimate, a cool $800,000 a year.
]
] While other news sites make money, they don't mint it
] Drudge-style. New York Times Digital scored an operating
] profit of $8.3 million last year. But it has 237
] full-time employees, meaning that each worker accounts
] for about $35,000 in profit. (And that doesn't take into
] consideration the fact that the site's reports are
] actually generated by the newspaper staff, a cost
] allocated to the paper side only.) By any calculus,
] Drudge's site might be the most efficiently run on the
] Web; it makes the Times site look bloated. Drudge's is a
] two-person operation (although he never mentions his
] right-hand man); that means it makes $400,000 per
] employee. And he never has to leave the comfort of his
] Miami condo.

Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - The Secrets of Drudge Inc.

] The intelligence officials offered a tantalizing coda for
] conspiracy-mongers. They said the "crude forgery"
] received by U.N. weapons inspectors suggesting the Iraqis
] were trying to buy uranium from Niger as part of their
] nuclear program was originally put in intelligence
] channels by France. The officials wouldn't speculate on
] French motives.

Last paragraph of the article which I found particularly interesting.

Tipping Points (washingtonpost.com)

] A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that a lot of people
] seemed to be pretty unhappy with the BBC's coverage of
] the war, and I linked the BBC's attitudes - odd, I
] thought, for the national network of a nation at war - to
] the shared prejudices of the "New Class" of
] state-supported bureaucrats and their ilk.
]
]
] Since then, things have only gotten worse for the Beeb.
] Andrew Sullivan has kept up the pressure. The BBC has
] even been forced to respond, taking the absurd position
] that:
]
]
] The BBC is not state-funded. We are publicly funded
] through a license fee paid by every household in the
] United Kingdom. The British public, not the government of
] the day, owns the BBC, and it is to the British public we
] are accountable.
]
]
] Get that? They're not state-funded, they're just paid for
] by a mandatory tax that the government collects, and
] about which the taxpayers have no choice. Now if the
] British television viewers got to choose whether their
] "license fee" went to the BBC, or to some competing
] service, things might be different - and so might the
] BBC. But that's not how it works, and quite a few people
] - by no means all of them on the right - are unhappy with
] the BBC's slant....

TCS: Tech - New Class Crackup

] BEIRUT (Reuters) - Salaam went to Iraq to do battle with
] Americans and die a martyr. He returned home with
] shrapnel wounds and tales of fighting U.S. military might
] with a rifle.
]
] From a Baghdad hotel he moved to a training camp where
] volunteers practiced shooting and trench warfare. Then
] Salaam, 24 years old and unemployed, was sent to war.
]
] "I was sleeping behind mounds of sand and firing from
] Kalashnikovs on helicopters. It was craziness," he said.
]
] "We stayed at the front five days and we didn't eat
] anything. I saw two dead bodies shot in the head."
]
] Thousands of volunteers from across the Arab world are
] thought to be in Iraq to fight advancing U.S. and British
] forces. On Wednesday, jubilant Iraqis welcomed U.S.
] troops in Baghdad.
]
] Salaam, a Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim, said he was unprepared
] for the hostility of some Iraqis to volunteers like
] himself.
]
] "I went there to be a martyr, not to be murdered by a
] brother," he told Reuters. "We went there to help them
] liberate their country, and all they did was shoot us in
] the back."
]
] "I am not afraid of the Americans. On the contrary I want
] to fight them. But I was scared of the Iraqis,
] specifically those who call themselves the Iraqi
] opposition," he said.

I love how he says he went to Iraq for jihad and then later he says he's not normally religious.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

] At Macworld, out-of-work dot-commers pose as marauding
] clowns. The authorities are not amused.

Salon.com Technology | Send in the iKlowns

] BAGHDAD (AFP) - More than 100 children held in a prison
] celebrated their freedom as US marines rolled into
] northeast Baghdad amid chaotic scenes which saw civilians
] loot weapons from an army compound, a US officer said.
]
] Around 150 children spilled out of the jail after the
] gates were opened as a US military Humvee vehicle
] approached, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Padilla told an AFP
] correspondent travelling with the Marines 5th Regiment.
]
] "Hundreds of kids were swarming us and kissing us,"
] Padilla said.
]
] "There were parents running up, so happy to have their
] kids back."
]
] "The children had been imprisoned because they had not
] joined the youth branch of the Baath party," he alleged.
] "Some of these kids had been in there for five years."

Interesting to see stories such as this coming from the French press.

Yahoo! News - Jailed Iraqi children run free as marines roll into Baghdad suburbs

] Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) is at this very moment
] attempting to sneak the RAVE Act into conference
] committee on the National AMBER Alert Network Act of 2003
] (S151). S151 is a popular bill about child abduction and
] has nothing to do with drug issues. S151 has already been
] passed by the Senate and House and is now in Conference.
] In contrast, the RAVE Act has not passed even one single
] committee this year. It did pass a committee last year,
] but was so controversial two Senators withdrew their
] sponsorship after the vote.
]
] This means that if the RAVE Act passes the conference
] committee, it is likely to become law without ever having
] a hearing, a debate or a vote. Drug Policy Alliance has
] been told that Senator Biden has told other conference
] committee members, incorrectly, that the ACLU is no
] longer in opposition to the action. He also has told
] conferees that nightclub owners now support him (on the
] basis of one group that switched sides). If the act makes
] it into the conference language it is likely to become
] law. It must be stopped now.

TalkLeft: Joe Biden Trying To Sneak Rave Act Past Congress NOW