Afternoon Delight

I've got the Ron Burgundy thing stuck in my head--not "Afternoon Delight", but the "UHHHHH" jazz-flute solo. And I hate jazz flute. So here's some links to make me and you happy:

>Former State Department FSO New Sisyphus unloads on a former employer, calls it a Mickey-mouse operation.

>The Sahuagin insurgency has begun; we must ally with either the Kuo-Toa or the Mermen to stop it. Frankly the mermen are a bunch of sissies, and if the Githyanki are behind this (as we all know they are, they're using the Sahuagin as muscle to move in on you, leaving you defenseless) I don't expect the mermen going to be riding to the rescue on their hippocampi when the chips are down...

>Funniest look yet at the California no-spankin' cat lady. In case you missed the inspiration for it:

But Lieber is optimistic that lawmakers will find her proposal hard to resist. For the record, she does not have children and says she was not slapped as a child. But she does have a cat named Snoop, which her veterinarian told her never to hit.

``And if you never hit a cat,'' Lieber said, ``you should never hit a kid.''

> There's a pretty serious debate between some well informed people--and also me--about the Iranian prospects for a nuclear weapon in this Hot Air thread. Worth a scroll through--commenter NPP points out a few flaws in the story I linked below about DPRK-Iranian collaboration, but at 5:10 PM there is a well-reasoned (if snappish) rebuttal by Kaltes.

>Finally, as a palate cleanser--the a cappella version from the film, not the video! (Audio content warning--starts with Will Ferrell yelling "VERONICA CORNINGSTONE AND I HAD SEX AND NOW WE ARE IN LOVE!)