Blog Roundup: Friday comic relief

This is the Laughing edition of blog roundup.

*Potfry (kinda like The Onion, except funny) reports that U.S. Counters Iranian Missile Demo with Short Film: "Hiroshima, A Retrospective."

"Wow. A super-fast underwater missile. We'll be sure not to tangle with Iran's navy now, that's for sure. We're quite impressed with Iran's efforts to...find ways for missiles to travel faster through, uh, water. Through our own painstaking research, though, we have found that missiles travel better through the AIR, particularly when they have to travel long distances, like say 6,337 miles."

*The Jawa Report has some very funny stuff: Iran Unveils Seagoing Magic Carpet, Iran Goes Disney With Stealth MIRV Platform, Underwater Missles, And - Now A 'Flying Boat'? and Iranian Generals Hold Bongathon.

*Mother Jones has an hilarious post on Intellectual Property Run Amok (via But I am a Liberal and The Getz Files).

FOR INCLUDING a 60-second piece of silence on their album, the Planets were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of composer John Cage, which said they’d ripped off his silent work 4’33”. The Planets countered that the estate failed to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds in Cage’s piece had been pilfered.

A FRENCH DIRECTOR had to pay $1,300 after a character in his film whistled the communist anthem, “The Internationale,” without permission.

*Blame Bush - Bush stole an hour of sleep (via commentor Rational Minded at The House of Wheels).

As I sat in my boss’ office this morning, desperately trying to hold my eyelids up while the old fascist tore into me, I couldn’t shake the feeling that Bush was somehow responsible. Unbeknownst to me, Daylight-Savings Time had passed in the dead of night and under the cover of darkness. As a result, I was TWO, rather than the typical ONE hour late. There was no way I could explain it away this time as Bush intentionally scheduling trains, school buses, and naked samurai-sword guys to obstruct my morning commute, either.

*Israeli Newspaper Ynetnews reports on Hamas's attempt to supply Potfry with extra material for his blog (hat tip:The House of Wheels):

United States churches are secretly run by Jews who converted to Christianity with the intention of controlling religious Americans including President Bush, a top Hamas member claims.

“Even the churches where the Americans pray are led by Jews who were converted to Christianity, but they were converted to keep controlling the Americans,” Mohammad Abu Tir, the number two Hamas terrorist in the newly formed Palestinian Authority government said.

Abu Tir? He's the guy who vowed revenge on Israel after a prankster dyed his beard (pictured below).


*Tim Blair blogs about serious stuff, yet reading his posts I feel strangely comically relieved.