Turn your children into political partisans early with new books

My brain hurts after hearing about these.

• Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!
• Why Mommy is a Democrat
• A radio interview with both authors

Dance, Monkey, Dance!

Monkeys …

Bush, Mexican dancer fight over hat

From the Associated Press:

President Bush, center, struggles over a hat with a Mexican dancer as Mexican President Vicente Fox, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper look on in Chichen Itza, Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2006. Secret Service agents eventually forcibly removed the dancer from the site, leaving the hat for the president. The three leaders took a tour of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza, as they began their two-day meeting in the south of Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Truly bizarre.

Britney Spears, naked in Brooklyn

I feel sorry for the guys at The Onion. Making up fake news must get harder and harder when real life keeps raising the bar, as this story from the Associated Press illustrates:

Britney Spears will soon be giving birth again — in Brooklyn, as a sexy sculpture that has drawn thousands of hate e-mails.

“This is a new take on pro-life. Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth,” Daniel Edwards said of his work, to be unveiled at a Brooklyn gallery in April, months after Edwards’ sculpture of Ted Williams severed head stirred up an artistic storm.

The life-size pop princess is naked and pregnant, crouching face-down on a bare-toothed bear rug as the baby’s head appears on the opposite end.

I had to check to make sure this wasn’t an early April Fool’s joke article.

Two fun Wired articles

• In praise of duct tape. I had no idea that it really was once called “duck tape.”
• An American Idol “fan” attempts to screw it all up — even worse than the regular voters do — with a site dedicated to promoting the worst singers.