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Today's one of those laugh-or-cry news days. I don't normally repeat a lot of links I got from my friends list, but it seems like a good time for a roundup.

• "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for supporting free speech."
  
• "If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, [New Jersey]'s anti-terror czar says."
  
• The FBI recovered a Bill of Rights, missing for 138 years.
  
• This may come as a shock, but apparently there may be some casualties if we go to war.
  
• The surrender of fifteen Iraqi soldiers makes headlines.
  
• The U.S. failed to convince Turkey not to invade Iraq when we do.
  
• Oh yes, and Iraq has attacked northern Iraq.
  

Comments

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

OK, that New Jersey story is terrifying. Especially with the ease with which the country jumps back and forth between Yellow and Orange. Don't listen to your radio and leave your house? That's a shootin'.

"Red means all noncritical functions cease," Caspersen said. "Noncritical would be almost all businesses, except health-related."

Of course, since they'll shut down the radio stations, you won't know when it's safe to go back outside.

My business is safety-related, maybe that means I'll be able to go to work.

I'm reminded of the joke: "The terrorists could never take away our freedom. Only Bush/Ashcroft/New Jersey can do that."

what's a good word to describe something that makes you want to laugh and cry simultaneously?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

President.

Le Mot Juste?

[vivasuperstar.livejournal.com]

tragicomic

[(Anonymous)]

"Is there such a word as 'intolerabler'?" --Daria Morgendorffer (http://www.outpost-daria.com/ep403.html)

Scalia speech

[dongle.livejournal.com]

As a follow-up, Volokh Conspiracy has a report from someone who claims to have attended the Scalia award speech.