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Operation Raging Queen

From the San Francisco/Berkeley CBS affiliate website:

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently [sic] rejected, building [a] so-called "Gay Bomb...."

[Said Sunshine Project's Edward Hammond,] "The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders [sic] to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably [sic] attractive to one another...."

The Enchantress says the guys who cooked this one up must have wound up getting a gig as writers on the Austin Powers franchise. If so, I suppose the "gay bomb" idea didn't make it into any of the films only because it was just so over-the-top.

(Via Talking Points Memo.)

Dumb as a Rock

This article in the Independent writes of Peter Hitchens that he "question[s] whether [his brother] Christopher truly believe[s] his own assertion that there isn't a God," and quotes Peter's reasoning as follows:

There is always, in the atheistical struggle with God, the fight against temptation. If it didn't matter to you, why write a book about how wrong it is? The first person you have to convince with any book you write, is yourself. If you didn't need convincing... why go to all those lengths?

Shorter, logically formalized Peter Hitchens, then:

For any proposition p, and for any agent A: If A argues that p, then A believes that not-p.

Such a universal disproof will undoubtedly prove useful. No it won't. Yes it will. No it won't.

The Faces of al FOX

From Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo:

Fox's Roger Ailes says: "The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face Al Qaeda. And that's what's coming."

I guess we at least agree about the nature of the organization?

Late Update: From TPM Reader RT: "I guess he validates the theory you shouldn't negotiate with terrorists."

So now when Bush talks about his "base," you know what he really means.