So, the North Koreans make their kids build highways and eat rocks.
Today, KCNA is touting the health benefits of rocks. I wish I was kidding.
In particular, the active natural mineral complex helps children grow fast. The growth rate is double for boys and quadruple for girls. And it improves their physical strength and vigor.
Wow. Just, wow.
One of my favorite Web sites is the Korean Central News Agency. That’s the North Korean Central News Agency, by the way. It’s propaganda in Engrish! Their all time best article is this one, about the North Korean equivilant of the Boy Scouts, called the Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade. They build highways and stuff in the name of the Dear Leader.
Every day, they have at least one article ranting against American “war moves” and “aggression” and threaten to destroy us if we attack. One such article produced the KCNA quote of the week:
The south Korean military authorities’ involvement in the U.S. moves for a war against the north is as foolish an act as jumping into fire with faggot on their own back.
Did you hear that? They called us a faggot! NO, NORTH KOREA, YOU’RE A FAGGOT! WE’LL SEE WHO’S A FAGGOT WHEN WE NUKE YOUR WHOLE COUNTRY!!!
What are they thinking? That’s just the kind of thing that could cause Bush to start another war.
George Galloway, the Stalinist British MP was on a trashy reality show drinking milk from the “cupped hands of the once famous television actor Rula Lenska,” meowing and acting like a kitten.
That’s more humiliating than 10 junior high school proms. Ironically, Galloway is a member of the “Respect” party.
Countdown to gloating Christopher Hitchens column: 1 day.
Update – Turns out he was all over the Kitten thing like cream on the lip of a washed-up leftist hack. It just wasn’t up on Slate, where I usually read Hitchens rants.
Sometimes you see something that makes you want to play with Legos again. Like this cool church devoted to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Or this one, which is like, a regular mega-church, made of legos. So it’s like a mini-megachurch.

Those little lego guys remind me of the Moonies for some reason. It’s slightly creepy, actually. Though, I have no room to talk when it comes to having a megalomaniacal obsession with creating legions of tiny followers. The Lego church is a great way to have your own cult without all the legal and press problems that inevitably follow with a real one.
Microsoft used to be evil because they dominated the world with crappy software. I never had much of a problem with this, personally. But now, they are censoring blogs on behalf of the Chinese government , putting them in a whole new category of world-class evil.
Basically, this Chinese guy named Zhao Jing, aka Michael Anti, had a blog on MSN space that the communist dictators in China didn’t like. MSN kowtowed to the autocrats and took it down.
Quoting the Information Week article (via boingboing.net :
“Microsoft said in a statement that the decision to unplug Zhao was inline with its practice of “ensuring that products and services comply with global and local laws, norms, and industry practices.”
“Most countries have laws and practices that require companies providing online services to make the Internet safe for local users,” the company said. “Occasionally, as in China, local laws and practices require consideration of unique elements.”
Yeah, “unique elements” like oppression and lack of free speech. What a bunch of tools.
Somehow, I think this will be the most famous photo of Jack Abramoff ever.

So familiar. Who does that remind me of? Oh yeah!

The ostrich jerky is here!!!!

I passed the stuff around my office today. Universally, it was rejected by females and accepted by males. Why do women fear my ostrich jerky?
It’s as tough as a catcher’s mitt and tastes just like beef jerky. There is so much pepper, terriyaki, soy sauce and other spices that it is impossible to tell what the meat tastes like at all. Which is probably a good thing. It’s not bad, actually. I could eat it for a meal, but then again I’m not a picky eater. It definitely tastes better than muskrat.