• Big Oil and Big Natural Gas are fighting, like they always do! It’s about energy policy, like it always is! [New York Times]
• David Axelrod and all his friends are preemptively very offended—on behalf of America—by Wall St.’s big bonuses. [Washington Post]
• Pakistan soldiers cornered a bunch of Taliban people in South Waziristan, which is a place they really wanted to be for whatever reason. [WSJ]
• A suicide bomber interrupted a meeting between Shiite and Sunni tribesman in Iraq by blowing it up and killing six military commanders. [Los Angeles Times]
• The sheriff who has jurisdiction in Evil Balloon County, Colorado, confirmed the hoax and will now be doing everyone on Earth a favor by pressing charges against the hellish Balloon Parents. [CNN]
• Three people died of non-Detroit-related reasons while running the Detroit Marathon. [Detroit Free Press]

Looks like that anti-suicide bomber PSA we posted about earlier is pumping up would-be suicide bombers all across the Middle East, not just in Iraq. From Rebecca Sinderbrand: MORE »

So diplomacy, force, or entreaties aren’t dissuading impressionable, hot-headed young Muslims from signing up as suicide bombers in Iraq. Maybe some Matrix-style bullet-time graphics will do the trick! Word is the Iraqi government spendt about a million dollars producing this anti-suicide bomber PSA. With that budget, they should have gone after Billy Zane, or at least Gary Busey: MORE »