Fox news by way of memeorandum

A Maryland company is working on a steam-powered robot which can burn biomass from the field of battle (wood, furniture, grass, dead bodies) to keep it going. Or as the news site says:

The advantages to the military are that the robot would be extremely flexible in fuel sources and could roam on its own for months, even years, without having to be refueled or serviced.

To put it better, its' name is -- Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (E.A.T.R.).

I really hope this is an Onion News story.

From a food safety news site here comes a link between more illnesses, this time in Wisconsin, and the Cargill ground beef recall.

You remember the correllation between Republican dominance and feral hogs, right? Now there's more proof:

Once again, a repost, in honor of Delay stepping down from his leadership post. It couldn't have happened to a nicer fascist.

I'm going to repost this, tweaked with suggestions from alert readers, in honor of Tom "Don't Call Me Frenchy!" DéLay's second very special day.

In honor of The Hammer's very, very special day we present the following recipe for Pork Delay.

1. Procure one well-fatted Republican.

Ian Frazier's latest, Hogs Wild ("They're feral, destructive, and spreading"), didn't make it into the New Yorker's online edition. I wonder why?

The presence of feral hogs in a state is a strong indicator of its support for Bush. Twenty-three of the twenty-eight states with feral hogs voted for Bush. That's more than four-fifths; states that went for Kerry, by contrast, were feral-hog states less than a fifth of the time.

In honor of "Scooter" Libby's Very Special Day, we present the following recipe for Squeezed Rat.

1. Procure one rat.

2. Squeeze 'til it squeals, then

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(Washington DC) In an effort to tap into the growing Undead demographic, McDonalds Corporation has unveiled its much-anticipated Zombie McBrain Sandwich, which company executives boasted "...would change the way America thinks about brains." Karl Rove, who was seen eating a plate of his own brains at a local bistro, nodded his head in agreement. He then nodded when asked if he enjoyed eating his own brains, and continued to nod at just about anything that crossed his field of vision.

Spam is a delicacy in Korea!

If you're looking for a gift that bespeaks elegance and taste, you might try Spam. The luncheon meat might be the subject of satire back home in the U.S., but in South Korea, it is positively classy. With $136 million in sales, South Korea is the largest market in the world for Spam outside the United States. But here, some consider the pink luncheon meat with its gelatinous shell too nice to buy for themselves, and 40% of the Spam is purchased as gifts.