The Morning Blog

Anarchists Continue with Their Roman Holiday: After sending bombs to the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome last week, another one was discovered today at the Greek embassy. Evidently, it's in retaliation for Swiss cooperation with Italian authorities who arrested several anarchists lately. I have no idea what the Chileans or Greeks have to do with this kerflauffle. As I've noted previously, I doubt the anarchists do either. I suspect they're just working their way through the phone book.

It looks as though Joe Miller is finally winding down his temper tantrum in Alaska. After losing his senate race to incumbent Lisa Murkowski, he filed an injunction blocking her certification, citing irregularities with some of the ballots that were written in for her. Being the Tea Party candidate that looks out for normal, hard-working Americans that didn't attend fancy Ivy League schools, it's only natural that much of his legal challenge is based around voters misspelling "Murkowski".

Let's take a look at what's going on in fabulous North Korea! A few journalists were permitted to accompany Gov. Bill Richardson during his holiday getaway there to attempt to diffuse tensions on the peninsula. Things are going swimmingly! Thanks to the endless benevolence of the Great Leader/General/Father of the Country/ Inventor of the Hamburger, 310,000 people have cell phone subscriptions! Wow! Way to go! However...

With paltry harvests, inflation of food prices is a chronic problem. Last month, the World Food Program reported that at that market a kilogram of rice, or 2.2 pounds, cost $10, about 10 times the price in Beijing. By the agency’s rough estimates, a typical household’s income would allow one person to eat two and a half cups of rice a day, assuming he had no other expenses. 

North Koreans pride themselves on juche, or self-reliance, and government officials greeted Mr. Richardson with declarations of a thriving society. 

“Everything is going well,” Vice President Kim Yong-dae assured the governor before reporters were shooed out of a meeting. “Thanks to our powerful military deterrence,” he said, “we can now concentrate on development” and achieve prosperity by 2012. 

Here we have a good example of the dastardly machinations of the secret World Government. The fact that this interview was conducted at a Waffle House is only proof of their...dastardliness.

Lots of fun stuff in the New York Times today it seems: A truck driver turned bounty hunter turned opera singer sounds like a fun guy to have at a party. Especially if you need something delivered, are hosting felons and enjoy karaoke.

Kacee Bait: Your favorite Steeler is...?

I'm going to be trashy for a moment and talk about a celebrity. Hugh Hefner is engaged. Again. I have high hopes for him this time around; she's a mere 61 years his junior so I'm sure they'll have plenty to talk about.

You'd think that after defiling the ocean with "Water World", Kevin Costner would learn to leave it the hell alone. But no. He created some company that separates oil from water and then Stephen Baldwin got involved and now everybody is suing everybody and the end.

Enough with the celebrities and their sordid little lives. This guy is cool.

Somewhere, somebody is looking at this and wondering how one would invent condoms for bees. And that someone is me.

Animals! Animals! Animals!

This looks like an excellent way to waste time. And it's free-ish! The game by the way, is one of Wired Magazine's Top 20 Games of 2010.

Speaking of "wasting your time", this is profoundly depressing to me. Robert De Niro must have something better to do with his life than subject us to this drivel. Didn't he used to be an actor or something?

In praise of Legos.

Finally...

Here are some rich assholes.