The Onion: 34 Congressmen Arrested In D.C. Cockfighting Crackdown
WASHINGTON, DC—Washington police seized 22 members of the House of Representatives, 12 members of the Senate, and more than 100 fighting cocks Monday night, in the latest crackdown on blood sports at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Life: Scorpion panic as Colombia election bill advances
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) – A bill that would allow popular Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to stand for a second term passed another legislative test on Friday after a raucus late-night session in which a senator thrust a scorpion at a rival.
No, it’s not an exact match. Never go for a 100% match – if nothing else, you’ll make it impossible for either party to have their own space. The idea is to find that fine balance between too much common interest and too little; it’s all about getting the proper chi flow, in other words. Smoothing out the tangles. Stuff like that.
I’m sure that Life and the Onion will be very happy with each other, those newly-anthropomorphized abstract scamps, them.
(Via Poliblog, who probably isn’t babbling right now. Although the stuff in comments there about Rick Santorum nude photos… yipe.)