News Roundup: "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" Edition

I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think the end is near.

Our recalcitrant government digs deeper into Iraq and into the past, while the opposition resorts to gimmicks.

An unexplained stench belches forth in New York, dead birds fall from the sky in Austin, and dolphins, the smartest of them all, commit suicide on Cape Cod.

I think I just saw Pestilence ride by, asking if he was late.