Village People 'Cop' in Trouble With Law

I really, really hope for his sake that he doesn't end up in jail.

Canada says to hunt down al-Qaeda in Afghanistan

I bet they're scared now.

We're better than the British, says Chirac

Who needs terrorists with friends like that, n'est-ce pas?

Deadly parasites share common genes

Three genes are for small red, blue and green dots, another expresses itself as a long-range hunting appendage known as a 'remote control', and there is a whole sequence devoted to the new 'plasma screen' mutation. Scientists applaud the genome sequencing, but are not optimistic that the parasites' spread can be halted before the obesity they cause becomes an epidemic.

4 Fugitives Ditched Prison Garb Before Escape, U.S. Says

What a brilliant escape strategy! No wonder they haven't been caught yet.

Brad Pitt in hospital

Nurse shortage ends.

100 dead as three trains collide

This is all very sad for those who lost their lives, but shouldn't this year's Darwin Award go to the person or people for managing to achieve the spectacularly unlikely event of having 3 trains collide?

Departing Morgan Exec Takes Home $32 Million for Short Stint

This guy was co-president for 3 months, while a child dies in poverty somewhere on the planet every 3 seconds.

At White House, a Day of Silence on Rove's Role in C.I.A.

Oh, so it's okay for the Bush administration to say "no comment", while they put a reporter who does the same thing in jail...

Texans Disregard Latest Mad Cow Scare, Indulge Beef Appetite

If cows started engaging in witty repartee, knitting, or doing ballroom dancing, Texans would still eat them.

Bush says London attacks targeted civilized world

Doesn't this highlight the problem? Calling, by implication, the part of the world that the terrorists are 'from' (they may, of course, be British) "uncivilized" is exactly the kind of colonial attitude which created the terrorists in the first place. Unless you think terrorists are just jealous...

With No Leads, British Consult Allies on Blasts

Here's a tip: the terrorists did it. Here's another: it doesn't matter if you find them, because there will be more as long as they have a raison d'etre.

Sorry this one isn't funny...