Monday, January 05, 2004
I SOMEHOW MISSED THIS NEWS ITEM IN DECEMBER (thanks to Dave Barry)
UPDATE: and then there's this from November:
The other big December surprise is another daring, hush-hush-secret holiday morale-building head-of-state visit, this one by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who secretly travels to Washington, D.C., where he holds a reception for occupying North Korean troops. The Department of Homeland Security, asked how Kim was able to enter the country undetected, speculates that ``he must have removed his shoes.''
UPDATE: and then there's this from November:
In other political news, Democratic front-runner Howard Dean creates a stir when he says he wants to be the candidate of ''guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.'' After harsh criticism from his 2,037 opponents, Dean clarifies his position, explaining that he meant ''guys using their pickup trucks to take Confederate flags to the dump to burn them because Confederate flags are bad.'' This prompts his opponents to charge that burning flags could be environmentally harmful. In the end, the only thing everybody can agree on is that there should be some kind of expensive program for senior citizens who have Confederate flags.
