Thursday News Trio

Taking yet another step in the normalization process, everyone's favorite wacky dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, will appear live via satellite in a panel discussion on democracy organized by Columbia University. Say what you will about Qaddafi, but I think everybody has to acknowledge that he's charismatic, and has become extremely good at sailing the winds of international politics.

A few of you saw comments on this blog and Mo-Licious' blog last week regarding Isaac Hayes finking out on his part on South Park. This incident, and the response to it, should prove one thing, if nothing else: don't piss Trey Parker and Matt Stone off. Hell, I'm going to invite them to my birthday party, and they can bring whatever color of Mega Man they want!

And Somalia is still a god-forsaken war-zone. Maybe we should start a petition to get the French to colonize the place, that always seems to do a lot of good for struggling African nations.