The CIA is giving Afghan warlords Viagra in exchange for cooperation and information. The WaPo files it under "novel incentives and creative bargaining." Sources insisted on anonymity, and "the CIA declined to comment."
Goodenough Gismo
- This is the classic children's book, Goodenough Gismo, by Richmond I. Kelsey, published in 1948. Nearly unavailable in libraries and the collector's market, it is posted here with love as an "orphan work" so that it may be seen and appreciated -- and perhaps even republished, as it deserves to be. After you read this book, it won't surprise you to learn that Richmond Irwin Kelsey (1905-1987) was an accomplished artist, or that as Dick Kelsey, he was one of the great Disney art directors, breaking your heart with "Pinocchio," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."
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Big Stick Diplomacy. hee, hee
I just spit coffee all over my insulated socks.
Posted by: Pribek | December 26, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Big stick diplomacy. I so wish I'd come up with that.
Posted by: michael Reynolds | December 26, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Ah, but it's the special Viagra that gives them the 4 hour+ erection...and makes them a target for laser-guided munitions dropped by UAV's! Fired by Jason Bourne.
Not as bad as the British trying to put estrogen in Hitler's vegetable garden!
Posted by: Ron | December 26, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Ron:
Are you accusing our government of using meat-seeking missiles?
Posted by: michael Reynolds | December 26, 2008 at 01:11 PM
*gasping with laughter*
Ron, you weren't supposed to . . . that was one of the classified . . .
Just don't tell them about the Rudolph effect that they figured out how to include . . .
Posted by: amba | December 26, 2008 at 02:54 PM
michael: we need the Internet text equivalent of the rim shot sound for that one!
Posted by: Ron | December 26, 2008 at 02:56 PM
Amba: It's America's anti-schwing systematic defense against ICBM's (Islamic Connubial Boner Mullahs)
Posted by: Ron | December 26, 2008 at 03:00 PM
We track them using the Networked, Integrated, Navigation, Communication, Orientation and Management Program for Objectively Onanist Personnel, or NINCOMPOOP.
Posted by: Ron | December 26, 2008 at 03:53 PM
Somehow, this reminds me of poor Slothrop's circumstances in Gravity's Rainbow.
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Posted by: Horace Jeffery Hodges | December 27, 2008 at 06:26 AM
Oh man. For some reason this article just turned up on my Google alert for links to my blog. Google sent it straight to the spam filter. So I was already in stitches about that when I noticed the title. Thanks for a series of great laughs.
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