Tall Tales

I promised myself to post no more blogs until I'd finished a long article on the dog genome for the Bark, but I couldn't resist this story from today's L.A. Times about the U.S. military paying to plant stories in the Iraqi media. Why not advertise? Hire the world's top ad agencies to sell the Iraqi people on the wonderful new democracy we're creating for them from the barrel of a gun emerging from a dense cloud of white phosphorus smoke.