Swamp Elective

Iraqi officials are pushing to have several Blackwater employees, involved in a shooting incident, tried in Iraqi courts. The State Department worries that the military contractors might get “railroaded like we did to Saddam Hussien.”

A judge ordered that Britney Spears relinquish custody of her two children to their father Kevin Federline. K-Fed just edged out the judges second choice; being raised by a pack of wolves.

Police have arrested a woman who allegedly snorted cocaine off her infant’s stomach while breastfeeding him. In her defense the woman said she was distraught after losing custody of her children, to Kevin Federline.

In South Africa 2700 men were rescued from a mile below ground after a gold mine accident. Inching South Africa just ahead of Utah and Satan’s fecal caverns in mine safety.

The number of young children on prescription drugs for heartburn has jumped about 56% in recent years. Experts blame the increase on obesity rates, over-prescribing, and Flinstone’s chewable jalapeño antidepressants.

This week marked the 50th anniversary of Russia’s launch of the sputnik satellite and the beginning of the space age. Many observers were nostalgic for the competitiveness of the Cold War and an era when we only worried about fascism from external sources.

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