1—The New York transit system is on strike for the first time in 25 years. Seven million commuters are out of luck in one of the world’s biggest cities. Glad I’m not there to share in that sort of misery…
2—Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran’s radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In its official statement, the government says:
“Blocking indecent and Western music from the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting is required. Supervision of content from films, TV series and their voice-overs is emphasized in order to support spiritual cinema and to eliminate triteness and violence.”
Evil Western music and television. Destroy the evil Satan! Bwahahaha!
What else can you expect from a man who says Israel should be either wiped out…or moved to Alaska!
3—The Emperor of Dumb-ass Land, George W. Bush, is defending his law-breaking wire-tapping of American citizens, and says that he is irritated with whoever leaked his lawbreaking to the New York Times:
“My personal opinion is it was a shameful act, for someone to disclose this very important program in time of war. The fact that we’re discussing this program is helping the enemy.”
That’s right, my neighbourly Americans. Your President believes it’s more shameful to disclose his lawbreaking stunts than to condemn the actual ACT of lawbreaking!
And that is today’s list of ridiculousness…
