Day One, Mike Luckovich
Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job: “African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind.”
(Via The Onion.)
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BalkanInsight.com - Bulgaria Plant ‘World’s Most Dangerous’: “Bulgaria’s planned nuclear plant at Belene is among the most dangerous projects of its kind in the world, the environmental activist group Greenpeace claims.
Speaking to Germany’s Deutsche Welle, Greenpeace’s nuclear analyst Heinz Smital argued Belene was a massive and irresponsible gamble, which would only tarnish the reputation of [...]
Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question - NYTimes.com: “Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.”
Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia’s inexperienced military attacked the [...]