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[chanting] We're Number One! We're Number One!

^{Tuesday, 5 Falltring 2005}

Yes, that's right,folks - Detroit tops nation in poverty census. Since Putsch was installed in 2001, the poverty rate has increased by leaps and bounds in the city proper, and has also increased at a greater rate than the national average in the metro area. Coincidentally (cough), Detroit is also one of the bluest of blue cities, with 94% of the votes cast in 2004 going to John Kerry, and 95% of the votes cast in 2000 going to Al Gore.

Praise Koresh southeast Michigan isn't below sea level with some sort of government funds that could be diverted to the bulging pockets of greedy corpo-weasels unknowable, unreportable projects under way within the Department of Homeland Security. Otherwise we might have to be concerned about swimming home from work one of these days...

Exactly Who Are They Trying To Kid?

^{Sunday, 4 Falltring 2005}

Hurricane Katrina could slow US economic expansion. It's almost as though the corpo-weasels are so desperately trying to spin the blame for the crappy economy anywhere but in their greedy hands. Which is not much of a stretch when you consider that those hands have been constantly looting the economy and openly stuffing the money into the rich's pockets for over twenty five years now.

It also seems to us that there hasn't been much of an economic expansion of late. We haven't heard much of anything about the record numbers of discouraged workers* in the infotainment feeds from the media whores. And we haven't seen any increase in the consumer's buying power for some time - rather the bite being taken out at the pumps is driving some to distraction. Especially when they see it, for all intensive purposes, being funneled into the vaults of the executroids at the top of the oil processing pyramid.

Read the article. Look at the rest of the spin, and decide for yourselves. Then think about trying to do something about it, and tell us what you think in the comments to this post.

* - people who aren't counted in any of the unemployment figures any more because they have run out of employment benefits, yet still cannot find a job. They must be lazy (cough) or something...

Religious Insanity In Action

^{Saturday, 3 Falltring 2005}

Part of this post was caused by our reaction when our own brother, for whom until this weekend we held some small hope that his own religious insanity* would not entirely consume his intellect, started telling us how Intelligent Design is truly an alternative to evolution, and both should be taught in science class as being equally valid.

Another part was awakened when, via Pacific Views, we see that Christian Schhols Bring Suit against the University of California. Apparently they aren't giving textbooks, which support the unproven (and unproveable, which is somewhat of a problem in science class) theory (cough) of Intelligent Design, academic standing. Almost like they might be offering up a load of steaming kimchee to their students, and then getting upset that some of those pupils question the nutritional value of said course. Why does that suddenly remind us of the Theofascist in Chief and his God Squad running around telling us that 2 + 2 = whatever the state wants us to think it is?

Plus, we have been engaged in theofascist ditto monkey spanking over at T. Rex's place of late. Evidently ID and the theory of evolution can be taught as viable alternatives to one another, but Pastafarianism is right out. Even though it is held to be a viable (and more internally logically consistent) alternative to Intelligent Design. And even though both Pastafarianism and Intelligent Design have the same relative scientific viability.

Can somebody explain to us why it is that only certain flavors of religious insanity are considered to be acceptable? And why they should be considered to be statements of fact instead of the superstitious nonsense that they truly are?

* - which unfortunately seems to be inherited genetically** within our family tree - we are largely in the minority within the community of our relatives, both in the Intelligent Design as scientific theory and the Publicans can do no wrong areas of faith-based logic. Go figure!

** - if you believe all that science-based Theory of Evolution nonsense (cough) that is...

No, We Couldn't Resist This One

^{Friday, 1 Falltring 2005}

And we know that others must have made it here before we did, but our duties as Chief Punmaster and Stand-Up Philosopher-General at The Poor Man Institute for Freedom and Democracy and a Pony compel us to tell you that this article about the latest and greatest hurricane should have been enititled

[wait for it!]

Katrina Makes Waves!

[sound of one hand clapping]

Thanks! We'll be here all week...

Must-Read Blogtasticality

^{Thursday, 30 Sweltring 2005}

There has been so much going on out on The Fashionable Left Bank Of Blogistan, we're not really sure to begin. And we haven't every time we've checked out the internets for more than a week now. Which hasn't really been as often as it should have been since pResident Perpetual Vacation went into hiding.

But you absolutely have to read this blog post by Cindy Sheehan. You probably should then look at the picture at the top of this blog post by Steve Gilliard which AmandaPanda found and linked to here.

Digby has been on fire all this week. You should read all of the words on the other side of those links, and everything else he writes. But you already knew that.

Our cyber friend at Alternative Energy shows us Energy Efficient TV shortly after celebrating his first blogaversary.

Finally*, on some personal notes, our good friend YuyaJo asks us a Key Question at his new digs on the internets as well as our new digs. At which we have also posted our recent letter to BartCop.

And we've given our cyber friend Joey Vee permission to broadcast our demo version of Next Plane To Gitmo on his next broadcast of the Cup of Joe radio show to be linked to soon at Cup o Joe.

This is our 500^th post at our digs here at funnyfarmonline dot org.

Random guerrilla blogging may take place from undisclosed locations in the North American midwest. Hope you enjoy your weekend!

* - and the crowd screams with enjoyment!

Time For A Cartoon

^{Humpday, 29 Sweltring 2005}

Almost Famous

^{Tuesday, 28 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta), 2005}

We have decided to take the awesome responsibility of the Chief Punmaster and Stand-Up Philosopher-General at The Poor Man Institute for Freedom and Democracy and a Pony. Since this is a purely fabricated office that we created on the spur of the moment, we have to figure that the benefits and pay scale are somewhat lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut*. Then again, the perks are fabulous considering the nonexistent cash outlay to give them to us in the first place. And we only took the job for the free kittens.

View the blogtasticality of this post here.

(About the author: (: Tom :) is the Chief Punmaster and Stand-Up Philosopher-General at The Poor Man Institute for Freedom and Democracy and a Pony.)

* - to quote Robin Williams imitating quoting Walter Cronkite.

Pimping Hos For Koresh

^{Sunday, 27 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta), 2005}

Oops! We must have read the headline wrong on this article from the LA Times. Nope - it still says Grooming Politicians for Christ. As if this nation has ever seriously considered running the country with religious insanity. Not that a lot of us haven't worried about it - especially since Satan's Soldier has usurped the pResidency and his junta has cloaked itself in the mantle of deific righteousness.

Maybe some people will reconsider this sort of a stand. Especially considering the latest political policy directive put forth by a member of the christian community: Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of Venezuela's president. Just imagine if this godly warrior (cough) was actually in a position of political power...

Blog Like A Conservative Day

^{Saturday, 26 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta), 2005}

It seems that while we were off helping to put together a couple of new pieces of mind candy with a long time friend, a bunch of liberals are trying to channel the ruthless corpo-weasel Republic vituperation along with the sanctimonious Publican religious insanity inherent in the wrongwingnutosphere for twenty four hours. On purpose.

Looking at the cast of dozens who have answered the call (as well as only scratching the surface of the bloggy goodness encased therein), it seems to us that this day will be the stuff of internets legends for googles of nanoseconds*. We hope that the various indictments, death threats, and additional government scrutiny that accrues to these brave freedom fighters for courageously satirizing their Repugnicant counterparts will be worth the trouble.

In the meantime, we're queasily enthralled to show you Funny Farm fave (cough) the Virgin Ben in his latest publicity venture:

* - practically forever, blogistically speaking.

Update: Apparently, they're not just sounding like wrongwingnuts, now their blogs are acting like them too!. The trackback to Pandagon at http://www.pandagon.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1170 doesn't seem to want to be accepted...

Must-See TV

^{Thursday, 23 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta), 2005}

Here at the Funny Farm, thanks to the magic of Tivo, we are able to watch the very few television programs we enjoy these days whenever we want. This tends to cause us to viddy things some time after they are impressed upon the melons of yer basic viewer.

Which is why it has taken us until recently to see the excellent interview that Jon Stewart gave to Seymour Hersh the other day, as well as the equally wondrous John Irving interview the night after, and of course the comically surreal Steve Carrell interview. And a local Funny Farm fave will be on to cap off the week:

Regarding the Seymour Hersh interview, perhaps Jon was truly as stunned by what he was hearing as he seemed to be. But we think that Mr. Hersh spoke volumes of truth to power in his brief minutes on the Daily Show - so much that it was too much for most to take in at once. It almost seems to us as if tinfoil helmets could be this fall's fashion statement...

If you get a chance to view the Daily Show from this week, or Sy Hersh's interview with John Stewart either via reruns, recording, or the internets, it would be well worth your while to check it out - even if you're only viewing the internets via dialup and that's the only way you can get it.

Downing Street Minutes Corroborated!

^{Humpday, 22 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta), 2005}

We wonders how those shining turds spinmeisters stars of the wrongwingnutosphere will react to the revelation that there is an official government document* outlining BabyDoc Putsch and the Junta's plans to invade Iraq which was produced in November of 2001. Gee, whatever happened in the few months before that to make the PNAC dream of imperial America within the reach of the membership (who conveniently had just begun to manipulate the levers of power now available to them via stolen elections)?

Thanks to the good folks over at Blah3 for bringing this to our attention, and to Richard Cranium of The All Spin Zone for bringing it before Invictus' eyes.

Special Funny Farm News Burro Update: this story has been upgraded to Heavy Blogswarm status. It seems that tinfoil helmets are strangely prescient these days...

* - one of a number of documents that can be found here.

Irony Overload Alert

^{Tuesday, 21 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta) 2005}

It seems like The Oxycontin Kid wants to try and be a uniter, not a divider, just like his favorite Repugnicant fellatee BabyDoc Bush. After showing his true colors and making racist remarks about Donovan McNabb, Blush Limpdick wants Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens to settle their differences on his radio show. At least he's not going on about the White House dog any more...

We wonder how anyone with frontal lobe activity can take this clown seriously. And we wonder how he can get Darth Cheney to sit down for a three hour interview on his show. Then again, we seem to be wondering an awful lot about that sort of thing lately. At least we're not wondering how we can take all these pricks out without getting into trouble. Yet.

Reality-Based Faith-Based Programming

^{Sunday, 20 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta) 2005}

We see by way of cyberfriend War Liberal that there is now a version of American Idol for preachers. Seriously. To begin with, there is nothing reality-based about administering the faith - almost by definition.* Faith says that this is so because I believe that it is so, even though I cannot prove that it is so. Which sidesteps bothering with those pesky facts all the time when you're trying to engage in reasoned debate. Or so goes the winding thread of some of the more reality challenged faith based rationalists.

We would also like to point out that engaging in a competition to see who is the best preacher in order to win valuable prizes seems to us to be a tad, um, what's the word? - oh yeah - blasphemous. Sort of giving the lie to the saying money is the root of all evil - if that is the case, why are these supposed representatives of the Invisible Cloud Being vying for ill-gotten gains?

As some of you might be aware, we don't watch much of the swill spewing out of the idiot box**, and we haven't for some time. We still manage to catch some sporting events on ten second tape delay live, and we do still watch some of the pap oozing into our living room. But we've never been part of the survivor fanatics, and the whole reality show boom, coming right after an strike within the entertainment business, and conveniently forcing their salaries down so that more money could go into people like Eisner, showed us the way things were going in the television show building business. They were being Walmartized, the same way that the rest of those ensared in that boom (cough coughautoindustryfastfoodindustryrestofretailerscough cough) were in the nineties. So a reality (cough) show about snake oil salesmen desecrators of their own faith preachers? Hopefully they'll turn the cameras off when the little boys are led into the vestry...

* - we do realize that there is very little, if anything, that is reality-based within the current lineup of reality-based shows. We also recall having simliar discussions with ardent fans of the sport (cough) of professional wrestling.

** - a cherished family nickname for the television. We even had black and white idiot boxes in the day...

Technical Difficulties

^{Saturday, 19 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta), 2005}

We have been unable to publish for the last several days. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Bigots R US

^{Tuesday, 14 Sweltring (Wedmath), 2005}

We noticed an article in one of our hometown papers the other day about racial hate crimes that have been taking place around metro Detroit. Besides being completely appalled at the prejudice and hatred involved in burning crosses on peoples's lawns in this day and age, we find ourselves having difficulty understanding that this is a new generation of racist iceholes who want to continue causing hatred and bigotry amongst their fellow man.

Within the article we find a theory that could have come straight out of our tinfoil-helmeted melon:

A weak economy can sometimes contribute to upswings in hate crimes, said Shanna Smith, a national civil rights expert. In recent months, Michigan has posted one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.

Smith, president of the National Fair Housing Alliance, said in an interview last month that when white people are financially unable to leave racially changing neighborhoods, some may lash out with hate. The alliance released a report in July that indicated some real estate agents in metro Detroit were steering black housing applicants away from mostly white neighborhoods, further dividing a region that is already one of the most segregated in the United States.

Gee, what ever would happen if non-white people were financially unable to leave a racially changing neighborhood and wanted to do so? What would happen if some real estate agents were steering white housing applicants away from non-white residential areas, should they choose to try and move into one? Or are those questions somewhat less of a concern to the rich white elitists running the country (into the ground)?

And why oh why would anyone say that we have a weak economy (cough)? All we ever hear coming from the media whores and The Unelectorated Warmonger are tales of how great everything is these days. You know, those wonderful record employment figures*. Who else has averaged under 20,000 new jobs per month during their pResidency? Who else has taken over 300 days of vacation while pRezNit for a little over four and a half years? While exhorting the populace to put in two years' worth of unpaid charity work? And handing out millions in tax breaks to a company that has already ripped off the American taxpayer for billions of dollars in the last four and a half years?

* - this could be one record that Putsch will have attached to his vile treachorous name down the ages - the president who laid off America. To go along with the most vacationeering as well? By our calculations, Dim Son will be clipping along at a rate of almost 78 days a year once he gets back to new product marketing season, er, business, when he deigns to return next month.

Quick Note To Terminix

^{Sunday, 13 Sweltring (Wedmath), 2005}

To the folks at Terminix: generally speaking, when you ask someone to stay at home during the day and let you in to their house, you should make an effort to get there when you say you are going to do so. Some of us (cough) don't have the ability to stay at home and go to work at the same time. We need to take time off of our day job in order to have someone at the house.

It is particularly galling to have your company act as if they had never heard of us, especially when we find out that the lady at the service center (who set up the appointment booked by the customer service representative) screwed up the appointment time and had an attitude because she sent the people there in the morning while we were being a busy bee at work, instead of in the afternoon while we were home impatiently awaiting their arrival. And especially after we spent a considerable amount of time on the telephone with one of your service representatives in order to arrange for your business service to perform their tasks for a paying customer. Which we, surprisingly enough (cough), will not be, as far as you're concerned, any longer.

This could be one of the problems involved in a business model that consolidates the customer service in one call center, with feeder service centers (who could quite possibly have customer service issues of their own with the call center) providing the end service for the corporate customer - who, not incidentally (unless he's One Of The Three Million^TM*) would be the one paying for the whole shebang. Which, of course, once again will most emphatically not be Your Humble (cough) Narrator. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have just enough time to get a few things taken care of back at work before the nightly backups. Perhaps you can improve your communication skills slightly in future dealings with other customers.

* - being conservative in our figures**, the one percent of the approximately three hundred million Americans out there living in the lap of luxury these days comes out to about three million or so. Maybe that's the top one and a half percent - most would be surprised to find how quickly the amounts drop off. Still, being One Of The Three Million who average close to a million in income does have a few other mega-perks besides not having to worry about trifles like coming up with extra cash for frelling exterminator type service at their humble abodes.

** - yes, it's true. We actually possess quite a few of what might be termed the more conservative (cough) opinions about things like lawyers, guns, and money, to quote a late great soul we were listening to the other day...

The Joys Of Home Ownership

^{Friday, 10 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta) 2005}

We were trying to get out early this morning to toss some weed and feed onto the lawn while the morning dew was still there. So we got the requisite pot of coffee on, and started getting the tools for the job ready.

But we were slightly sidetracked when we noticed, upon getting our bag of nitrates out of the corner of the garage, that there were a couple of insectoidal presences buzzing around. In said garage. Before I opened the frelling garage door.

Now, one of the things that have been hitherto unadvertised regarding the psyche of Your Humble Narrator is that Bugs Bug Me. A lot. Whenever we see bugs in locations that we do not expect them to be in (say, any indoor area in the house/garage inhabited by Yours Truly), our first impulse is to find out where and how they came to be in said locale, before consigning them to an inglorious demise on the soles of our shoes. We don't, generally speaking, see hordes of bugs anywhere in our homes - even though we're on constant vigil. But when we do, we have to get rid of them one way or another as quickly as possible.

Needless to say, the bugs that have toxic defense mechanisms are quite a concern for us. And these particular ones look like bumblebees on steroids - they have the bumblebee look and slightly more heft than most bumblebees we've seen, but the stingers hang down similar to the way they do on wasps and hornets when in flight. And somewhat differently than we remember your basic bumblebee (although, praise Koresh - it's been a while). So these particular flying poison sacs where of somewhat, um, extreme concern. We grabbed our can of bug spray and doused the little buggers a couple of times. We're not really sure what insectoid giggling sounds like, but we think we heard a bit of it before we could get the door open and watch them fly out. To our shock, they flew into a small hole in the concrete steps leading to our front porch. Where they merged into a relatively steady stream of their fellows.

To cut a long story short: we're going to have some professional help with our troubles early next week - now that we've finished waiting all day for them to call us back. And hopefully the adrenaline shock of dealing with poisonous flying insects in close confined quarters will wash out of our system soon...

Visiting The Fashionable Left Bank of Blogistan

^{Thursday, 9 Sweltring (Wedmath) 2005}

A few things from the reality-based community:

- This is Class Warfare rips the virgin Ben a new one;

- National Debunker makes a spot on case comparing the BFEE to the Sporanos;

- grumpy old man sounds off about, among other things, Owwur Leedur's edumacation plan (or lack thereof);

- O Dub introduces us to The Weiner Dog Of Infinite Justice;

- Rob's blog tells us that Tony Blair weants his own Patriot Act;

- Scoobie Davis informs us that Amway is covered with Santorum these days;

- The Rude Pundit files part 907 of a coninuing series on why O'Really? should be treated excrutiatingly rudely;

- Fun Central shows us (amoung other things) that Rumsfeld is still nowhere near the reality-based community;

- uggabugga gives us a little Friday sunrise blogging;

- Thudfactor shows us the costs involved in AmeriKKKa's deification of Red-Ink Ray-Gun.

There's lots more out there; we've barely scratched the surface. Plus the usual bloggy goodness is emanating from most of the usual suspects. Enjoy!

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

^{Humpday, 8 Sweltring (Wedmath) 2005}

We have been looking at a few sites that are not on our usual journey through the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogistan, and we have been able to find that small ray of sunshine that helps us get through the daily slog during our detour. We'd like to tell you all about it in a minute.

But first, we'd like to point out one of the delays in our journey that has caused us to be a little bit late in getting to visit most of the rest of you of late. We were really happy to hear that one of our good cyberfriends, The suburban Guerrilla, was now among the ranks of the employed, and could, like, you know, buy things she needed to survive, and try and get a little less debt attached to her Homeland Security profile. we were also hoping that we could catch up on all of our other site visitations, now that we were stopping over at Susie's for a virtual cup of coffee, and not much else.

Well, Susie lasted all of two days working for the man. It probably didn't help that she was getting told to lie to customers, and do pretty much everything she could to drive those paying customers away, by her superior(s). And it definitely didn't help when, as soon as she tossed the script she got from the management and started treating the customers honestly, she started to see positive results. Having to compete for the job with temps and being undermined in her efforts on a constant basis wasn't the biggest incentive to continue the gig, either.

So the long and the short of that tale is: it has taken us much longer than we anticipated to wade through all of the bloggy goodness over in that neck of the woods. Which, when added to our extra stops on our journey, has caused infotainment overload in our overtaxed synapses. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Okay - back to our original ramblings. Since we have assumed the duties of administrator for the Truth Laid Bear BBA community, we've been wandering down a few paths that we have, until now, chosen to avoid. You know the ones- they usually seem to meander all over the place, but invariably they end up at InstaCracker's front door. Or to FReeperville or other less wholesome places.

However, we have been somewhat pleasantly surprised to find vestiges of sanity amongst the moderate conservatives out there. It seems to us that some of those unquestioning conservabots have had some glitches in their programming. And they don't seem to be all that inclined to have their more ideologically pure brethren lead them back to Putschworld.

Take the Politburo Diktat, for example. In the last few days we have read about Free tuition for National Guardsmen, some disapproval of El Chupa Cabra's characterization of Paul Hackett as a staff puke, and some criticism of Drinky McDumbAss and his viewpoints on how to edumacate our chilluns. We have to say that we feel the commissar makes valid points in each of these instances, considers both sides of the debate, and tries to be somewhat tolerant of alternative viewpoints from time to time. Plus, he's got some very nice updates on the space program. And that's before tripping into the archives...

We had already noted that much-touted conservatives John Cole and Tacitus have stepped back from the precipices from time to time, and admitted that the Never-elected Usurper may have possibly screwed things up once in a while. It's not much, but it's a start. And it's amazing how much enmity their moderate stance has generated from their fellow members of the right side of the blogsphere

All we can ask is that sometimes some of our less controversial beliefs regarding the integrity and motives of the current administration be considered. Rational debate regarding them wouldn't be too bad, either. Obviously we take what we hear with some serious grains of salt, especially when it comes from those who have means, motive, and opportunity to spin news the way the current cabal wants it to be spun. And as unbelievable as it may seem to some, we have toned down our rhetoric significantly since the days of Ray-Gun, PapaDoc Putsch, and Mulled Rooney. Equially doubtful to wrongwingnuts everywhere is our ability to admit to error, and question the motives and integrity of some of the Democrats out there. But we'd have to say that there is a much greater possibility that our claims about our own behavior will intersect the reality-based community than our beliefs about the possibility of a change of heart amongst some of the more conservative of our fellow bloggers.

Update:Oops! We guess we're behind the times, because we wrote this before we saw this gem from Mithras over at Fables of the Reconstruction (whose site was not being found on the internets when we were putting this post together). This is a list of ten of the most notoriously obnoxiously Putsch-fellating sites out there, and we weren't aware that Tacitus was writing for Red State, one of the more rabidly conservative sites on this list. Although we'd probably put that Rottweiler clown in the list instead of Buzzmachine...

Profound Revelation

^{Tuesday, 7 Sweltring (Wedmath) 2005}

We liked the look of Ted Rall's latest cartoon:

But we couldn't help but notice that this cartoon could have a much broader scope than Ted intended, and could have been written about any of a number of situations occurring today. For example, you could put a Democrat in the cartoon in place of the Muslim, and slightly alter the words of what is being admitted, and what is being asked to be admitted by the Putsch fellators on the left hand side of each panel, and it would still be just as true as it is right now. Other examples of the multiple situations that this cartoon could be (only slightly) altered to capture the truth of the matter:

The Illegally Installed Usurper in place of the conservative, and Kerry in place of the Muslim;

Any one of Delay, Frist, Cheney, Novak, Coulter, Malagalangadingdong, Spammity, the vile Pigboy, O'Really?, Kinda Sleazy Rice, or Rumsfeld as the conservative, and any Democrat who has admitted that they have been wrong about anything as the other character in the cartoon;

Any wrongwingnut blog in place of the conservative, and any progressive blog on the other side of the panel*.

And these are just the examples that readily spring to the forefront of our melon. Can you, gentle reader, think of any others?

* - because progressives have this tendency to admit that they can make mistakes, unlike some Idiotarian Rottweilers Powertools Instacrackers blogs we could mention over on the wrong side of the blogsphere...

Antici-(Wait For It)

^{Sunday, 6 Sweltring (Wedmath) 2005}

We have a theory...

What if the Douchebag of Liberty* did not receive his information about Valerie Plame from anyone else? What if he's a clandestine CIA operative himself, and all he had to do was check in at Spook Central and access some files, in order to provide the reporting that he did? He probably wouldn't even have to access files in that case - he could just talk to some of his fellow Putsch fellating CIA employees and get all the dirt he needed to out an undercover CIA operative during wartime.

We remember hearing about how US intelligence agencies recruit reporters. We also saw speculation on whether some of the US journalists being terminated in Iraq were spying for US intelligence. But we figure, since it's apparently okay to compromise American intelligence resources, that anything on the order of a revelation here would be no problem whatsoever. Besides, we're merely engaging in idle speculation here, and freely admit to having no solid proof to back up our edumacated guess.

Any thought-filled analysis of this theory is welcome. Please find a way to disprove this theory!

Pation!**

* - also known in various circles as Novakula, the undead blood-sucker; the Least Credible Reporter in Media Today; and TraitorScum NovaBushFellator. Well,... not really - we just made the last two up. But we have heard him referred to as Novakula...

** - does anyone recognize the obscure reference we're making here? We mean, besides the Pythonian reference to the Theory of Miss Anne Elk.