Parrot and beer

A pair of news links from Electrolite:

Winston Churchill’s parrot, known for squawking obscenities about Hitler, is still alive at the age of 104.

The Russian army has joined the effort to rescue ten tons of beer trapped beneath an iced-over Siberian river.

Also, CNN has apparently shown Bush’s State of the Union proper respect:

(via Escahton)

Two-N cannon

One-N canon, that's official.
Two-N cannon fires a missile.
I’ve not seen, nor do I plan on
Seeing any three-N cannnon.

( Cannon Sue )

Defining destruction downward

Via Calpundit, here’s the evolution of Iraq’s WMD capabilities:

March 2003: Weapons of mass destruction.
June 2003: Weapons of mass destruction programs.
October 2003: Weapons of mass destruction-related programs.
January 2004: Weapons of mass destruction-related program activities.

With great power revisited

One year ago today:

Some of you will have already heard that the X-Men have been found inhuman by a court of law. [...] Me, I wonder how long it’ll take for this to show up in the actual x-books, and which x-author will get it in there first. (My money’s on Grant Morrison, of course.)

A year later, and it still hasn’t shown up in Morrison’s New X-Men (#152 ships this week; I’ll pick it up on Friday). I haven’t seen it in Millar and Bendis’s Ultimate X-Men either, but I’m reading that in trades, so I’ve only read up to #39. (Hm, I think the latest is #41, so I’m not far behind. Looks like Marvel’s doing a good job of getting the collections out quick.)