The tears are now pouring forth for Uday and Qusay. It might be a nice time for a pop quiz.

Who wrote the following?:

There are several questions that American journalists should there be asking, supposing there are any who have not been enlisted in the ranks of the embedded reporters. The first and most obvious is “Why?” Why did we kill these criminals, when they might have been arrested and put on trial in front of the Iraqi people?

Notwithstanding the answer to the question, which is "They weren't exactly inclined to throw down their weapons and wave the white flag--they kept firing actual bullets at actual American troops," was this paragraph written by:

A). Al Jazeera's Iraq correspondent

B). Reuters

C). Maureen Dowd

D). The paleoconservative Bible, Chronicles Magazine

Click here for the fevered and hysterical answer.

(By the way, its amusing to note that in the patented style of Howard Dean and John Kerry, the article grudgingly admits that "...it is probably also a good thing for the people of Iraq that his sons can no longer symbolize the hope of restoring his regime." --empahsis mine.)

Incidentally, my man Discoshaman has the laugh-out-loud line of the day in observation of the recent behavior of the "paleocons":

For several years now the so-called Paleo-Conservatives have drifted farther and farther away from what the rest of us refer to quaintly as "reality." They seem to have woken up still slightly drunk, and in bed naked next to Noam Chomsky.

When I read something as beautiful as that, I almost lose my will to continue scrawling these entries. "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"