Please No One Do A 'Hilarious Topical Political Costume' And Dress Up As Hamid Karzai's CIA-Informant Brother

Oct 28, 2009

Hamid Karzai's brother, a prominent opium dealer (!), has been receiving CIA paychecks for eight years. He will now be fired and replaced by a teenager and an iPhone app. Recession! [ New York Times ]
A car bomb killed 86 people in Peshawar a couple hours after Hillary Clinton left Peshawar. [ AP ]
At least six UN-related people died in a bombing in Kabul. Predictably, the Taliban has claimed responsibility, for such is their schtick. [ Washington Post ]
Those pilots who appeared to have totally forgotten to land the plane for an entire hour after they were supposed to have done so have lost their licenses. [ CNN ]
"Consumer confidence"—evidently an actual metric and not something people just say —is up for the first time since 2007. [ Reuters ]
It's looking like Iran might outsource its uranium enrichment needs, which is exactly what Obama wanted. [ Reuters ]