Very funny things happen when Mike Huckabee opens his mouth and says words about foreign policy. Remember the above clip from one of those hilarious 2008 GOP primary debates? He just had no idea what to say! And things don’t seem to have changed much, given today’s very confident declaration of no-peace. MORE »

Few signs are more telling of a remediless Republican campaign than a wacky attack ad about ’60s hippies smoking marijuana cigarettes. The conservative group Freedom’s Watch has just made this one against Democratic Colorado Senate candidate Mark Udall. Because you’d have to be high on drugs to support peace, HMM? [Scorecard]

As the CNN tells us, one Iranian couple is going on a bike tour “for peace” around the world, where they plan to educate us ninnies on the glories of their very fertile country! The Iranian government had no problems, either, letting them embark on this delightful envoy mission. The bikers are in the United States now, and will stop in other wealthy countries where the government won’t kill them on the way… back. Do you see what I’m thinking? This is an ungodly brilliant couple: They simply told the Iranian government that they would go on a “bike ride for peace” around the world, and now they’re out of Iran. This is your window, disgruntled Iranians! Get some cheap bike, tell Ahmadinejad it’s for peace and what not and get your ass out of Iran.

We have received this wisdom from a reader, and, truly, it all makes sense now:

This panda worship is so primal. Could he be a messiah? What if we broadcast, worldwide, nothing but the pandacam 24/7. I think all wars would end. We should seize control of the public and private airwaves, cyberconnections, etc, and substitute all media w/ butterstick. There are stupider solutions to the Middle East mess.

Yes, we must make it so. It sort of explains him disappearing into that cave recently… We’re not sure he’s a Christian god, however. He seems more like a reincarnation of the Buddha: Think of how he bears the weight of his imprisonment, his calm and thoughtful nature, his roly-polyness. His roly-poly-holiness.