Drag & Drop the Middle East

Niger yellowcake uranium forgeries; Burj Dubai Tower; Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran; genocide in Darfur; the July War/Second Lebanon War...need to place all these events and places you hear about on the news into a geographical context?

click here to take a nifty Middle East geography quiz!

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Bush officially sucks. What else is new?

According to the latest CBS News Poll, that smirking chimp in the White House is at a new low: 28% approval ratings. Which puts him pretty damn close to Nixon's all-time low of 24%. Am I gleeful that my intuitions and premonitions have come true? At the cost to our country (see left sidebar, below photos), of course not. But it is gratifying to see so many of my fellow countrymen and women who once thought me foolish for not supporting Bush in all his supreme inadequacy are finally coming around to the truth that "stepping in dogshit" (35%) gets a higher approval rating than Bush. So do "small breasts" (50%) and "the name Shiloh Nouvel Jolie Pitt" (29%). At his new low, Bush is tied with "body hair on guys". I'm not making this stuff up. Check out the fresh intelligence over at RadarOnline.