Negativity Markers Are Off the Scale

There is absolutely nothing pleasant in the news today.  There hasn't been anything pleasant for a while, actually.  The Middle East is a roiling mass of hissing snakes - - no biggie, but I thought we were supposed to be stomping them to death or charming them back into the basket or something... Israel's Olmert offers peace everything but the kitchen sink to the Palestinians, and receives bombs and ridiculous demands in return.(Surprise!)  The vulture-like media can't wait to declare defeat and begin picking over the delicate innards of the dead carcass.  The WaPo reports that Iran may have nuclear weapons by 2010 (ever see the movie 2010? F'only our worst problem was the Soviets...).  The King of Jordan is worried about three civil wars.  And Christopher Hitchens wraps everything up in a nice little bow.

In order to cancel out this depressing negativity, I plan to post nothing but comedy and fluff (lots of fluff) for the rest of the day.