MJ Parody Week: Day Two

Happy Tuesday, ladies and gentlemen. First, the news.

Pope: Bone Fragments Found in Tomb Are Paul's (AP, Guardian, Times) - I'm not sure I'd go so far as to make such a strong claim, but if it's true, how cool! Also, earlier this week they discovered what's believed to be the oldest icon of St. Paul known to exist, which was also found beneath the Vatican.

U.S. Shifts Strategy to Quall Afghan Opium Drug Trade (AP, BBC - I'm not sure who's selling this as new. The deemphasis of eradication could be sold as new, but even that policy is sort of old, and the promotion of alternative crops (wheat, pomegranates, and saphron being three prominent ones) has been going on for several years now.

BBC: Giving up my iPod for a Walkman - An English kid gave up his iPod for a week and carried around a walkman. Anyone who grew up with tapes and remembers the introduction of CDs and iPods should read this article, if only for pure nostalgic purposes.

BBC image: Paris Hilton and a Camel - The jokes that could be made from this one picture are multitudinous.

Guardian: Chinese algae carbon capture plan - China is growing algae to mitigate carbon dioxide. Why can't we do that, instead of enacting this asinine Cap-and-Trade policy? Oh, yeah, because realistic solutions don't matter to The One, his cronies, or his constituency. Meanwhile, also from the Guardian, more unproveable doom and gloom reports: New Orleans will be underwater in a hundred years. Yeah. Okay.

Times: Emaciated [Michael] Jackson weighed just eight stone - For those of you who don't know, "eight stone" is 112 pounds. For those who claimed that Michael Jackson was in excellent health, the leaked details of the coroner's report would seem to indicate that he was about as chewed-up as possible before he died. Very sad, although I still think he brought it on himself.

AFP: Obama's Marines in Position for Afghan Offensive - "Obama's Marines"? I really hate European "journalists".

UPI: Israel sells UAVs to Russia on condition - Very interesting. Israel's willing to sell UAVs to Russia, but only on the condition that they limit arms sales to Iran and other nations. Maybe the almighty dollar (in a broad sense) can be used as a proverbial carrot for getting Russia to stop acting like a twenty-one year-old kid who buys a bunch of proverbial high schoolers booze?

Times: Chilling echo of 1979 seizure - In case nobody heard, Iran arrested five British embassy workers, and has released them, over allegations that they've been instigating the protests.

CNN: Iran still interfering in Iraq, top Army general says

BBC: Tea 'healthier' drink than water - Take that, coffee drinkers!

Wired Danger Room: Taliban Bigwig Admits: "We screwed up in Afghanistan"

Today's Michael Jackson parody video, also a classic from In Living Color, stars Jonathan Taylor Thomas! (Mighty Mo just about fainted when she read that, due to two or three years of social conditioning between 1993 and 1996.)



Hee hee, indeed, folks. Hee hee, indeed. Shamon.

So, I have to say, the Shepherd's Pie is growing on me. I think it's better reheated than it was straight out of the oven. At any rate, yesterday was productive, and I'm hoping to make today productive as well. That having been said, I have things to do. Have a fantastic day, and check back tomorrow for more from yours truly.