Turn that frown upside down

Maybe you're down because of the Ossetian school massacre. Perhaps the death of the 1,000th US soldier in Iraq has you blue. Maybe you were one of the 1,800+ people arrested protesting the GOP in New York. Or, possibly, sewage water has invaded your bedroom (ahem). Well, cheer up! M.A. is glad to bring you the Laugh of the Day, courtesy of The Smoking Gun. A conversation with a coworker led me to visit the site for the first time in a while, and there are a couple of gems I felt were worth sharing with you, my broad audience.

Number One: the creators of personalized postage stamps probably didn't expect this, but they shouldn't be surprised.

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Number Two: a few years late, but still worth seeing . . . the 2001 License Plate of the Year.

And just in case anyone takes the first part of this post the wrong way, I think the school disaster is unspeakably awful; I would like the families of the dead American soldiers to have the opportunity, if they wish, to stone the president and his cabinet; and despite the tribulations of arrestees in the Big Apple, there may yet be some good to come of the city authorities' abuse of civil liberties - a legal counter to their smug thuggery. (The last paragraph of that Times piece requires special attention. See above.)