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One-Liners

I've been checking out a new site called inopinion.com since John Miller linked to it in The Corner last week. The founder, David Mastio is a consultant to newspapers and encourages them to experiment with new concepts on their Opinion and Letters pages, but I'm hooked on the jokes section he calls "Too Tough For TV". It's got new stuff every day, ripped from the headlines, and I've been getting some grins out of it. Some of my favorites from the past few days:

- Iran's decision to restart nuclear fuel work could lead to an international crisis. But it's good news for any unemployed Israeli jet fighter pilots.

- Judith Miller’s editor at the New York Times says he now doubts her version of events in the Valerie Plame affair. He says he wishes he had worked a little harder to get the facts—but, after all, it is the New York Times.

- Two new mouse experiments may show how to obtain human embryonic stem cells without ethical hurdles…unless the religious right has a thing about mouse babies, too.

- Another Bush nominee is in trouble. This time, Democratic senators are questioning whether President Bush's nominee to lead the State Department refugee program is qualified for the job. Said Bush, “Well, she did a heck of a job grooming my dog!”

- Actor and left-wing activist Danny Glover is defending a new Latin American TV network, saying it won’t demonize the U.S. That job will continue to be held by CBS.

- Tonya Harding reports that she fought in her home with a man she described as her boyfriend. Police say this narrows down the list of suspects to half the trailer park.

- Democrats yesterday forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session to demand answers about the intelligence that led to the Iraq war. No word yet on exactly why they needed a stripper in order to do that.

Rimshot!