The Morning Blog

In case you weren't paying attention. If you're wondering, the answer is: Yes. The killing of Bin Laden caused the Girlfriend and I to dance about the apartment. I'm sure quite a few people did something similar. People like these. Bin Laden may not have accomplished much in the past ten years, but I predict he single-handedly may have caused the most American hangovers in history.

Call it "Bin Laden's Revenge" the dirty, terrorist bastard!

Honestly, the Pakistanis are going to have some explaining to do. I think it's pretty striking that Obama sent a kill team into Pakistan without informing them until after the firefight. Seems like we might have even less faith in them then I thought.

Interesting twitter feed from the Pakistani man that accidentally broke the news.

In the end though, even though it's marvelous that he's dead, on a practical level it really doesn't make a difference.

Sigh. Let the death certificate foolishness begin. It makes perfect sense to dump the body at sea. Honestly, what country would want the corpse? Consider what a hassle it is for France to deal with hippies traveling to Jim Morrison's grave. I would imagine the grave of Bin Laden would attract an even less savory group of tourists.

Valid point coming from Al-Jazeera:

Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri's capture or killing, while important, is less so now for the Obama Administration for the simple reason that most Americans simply don't know who he is. It would be suicidal for Zawahiri to raise his head anytime soon, and his marginalisation will probably only continue as most understand al-Qaeda had zero to do with liberating Arabs from their dictatorships.

Speaking of terrorists, Venezuelan fat-boy Hugo Chavez has admitted that some of his allies provided aid to the Colombian terrorist group FARC. Totally behind his back, mind you. He told them to cut their shenanigans out because it would give the US an excuse to invade. Certainly a morally superior reason to the fact that a mere 50,000 to 200,000 people have died in the conflict so far.

NATO is taking pretty serious heat for Saturday's airstrike that killed Qaddafi's son and grandchildren. I do have to say that it's pretty hard to argue that the grandchildren posed an implicit threat to the lives of civilians. Perhaps they were grandchildren of mass destruction?

Speaking of kids; at his age, I was hawking my mothers chocolate cookies on the bus.

Finally on a lighter note, Spiderman is faced with a bit of a bother.