Remainders: We Seem To Have A Mechanical Flaw Edition

• A new study suggests Homeland Security staffers spend workday trolling for porn. Fortunately, they have 72 hours to get a retroactive warrant [Sploid]
• There’s a new blogger on the beat at why.i.hate.dc — unlike us, he got his job by winning a contest, and unlike us, he’ll presumably still be on the job next week [why.i.hate.dc]
• Jackoff’s Red Scorpion gets remixed, Brokeback Mountain style, and makes it onto ifilm’s viral videos. [teddysternmedia via ifilm]
• Arianna vs. Tim Russert: the smackdown continues [ HuffPo, FireDogLake]
• Family planning, Texas-style: the most fun you can have with a Bible and an examination table [Austin Chronicle]
• Mike Wise is the new Kornheiser [Washingtonian]
• Bush vs. camera, in case you missed Jon Stewart last night [WaPo, TVNewser]
• Twenty-five liberal bloggers sell out to the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions, sign up for junket to Holland. Bad timing dudes, Cannabis Cup is in November! [National Journal, Bloggers in Amsterdam] - AMBITIOUS HECKLER

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We Bombed in Baghdad

Controversy continues to swell around the London Daily Mirror’s report on a government memo in which President Bush appeared to broach the idea of bombing the Arab TV network Al Jazeera with Tony Blair. White House officials brush off the whole tale as “outlandish” and something they “won’t dignify with a response,” where the Daily Mirror’s original sources give somewhat conflicting accounts of the exchange, according to Kevin Sullivan and Walter Pincus in today’s WaPo:

One source is quoted as saying Bush’s alleged remark concerning the network’s headquarters in Qatar was “humorous, not serious,” while the other said, “Bush was deadly serious.”

And for good measure an unnamed official weighed in on the not-so-serious side of the question: “In Washington, a senior diplomat said the remark as recounted in the newspaper ‘sounds like one of the president’s one-liners meant as a joke.”

Yeah, we can totally see that. It’s like that time Bush was doing that whole mushroom-cloud uranium-tube riff about Iraq. Man, remind us to tell you sometime the highjinks that ensued then. —HOLLY MARTINS

Paper Says Bush Talked of Bombing Arab TV Network [WaPo]

U.S. Missile Hits Al Jazeera Office [AFP]

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