Category Archives: Humor

News Bulletin

Listen to this when it gets posted tomorrow.

In the early morning the bodies of 14 men were discovered in a shallow mass grave in a rubbish dump in northeastern Baghdad. Some of the victims were blindfolded and appear to have been executed with a shot to the head. Now this news bulletin…

BBC radio 15:00 GMT, Friday, May 6, 2005

This gives a new meaning to murderous competition for news delivery.

Poor Word Choice

On NPR this morning I heard the following gem:

A member of Iraq’s new parliament has been shot and killed outside her home in Baghdad. It was the first assassination of a member of the National Assembly since the body was elected in January.

I would want to be elected and remembered for my mind.