HUMOR BLOGGING THE WAR IN ISRAEL, Monday August 7th

The Lebanese army is reportedly ready to head to the southern border with Israel. If the world is very very lucky, their main responsibility will be to protect BBC reporters.

Top 5 Signs You're Looking at a "Photoshopped" Reuters Picture

5) Every war picture uses the same smoke from the 2004 Papal conclave

4) The "Hitler-style" moustache on President Bush doesn't match his other hair color

3) It's an image of French people doing something good

2) Fangs on Israeli terror victims look a little larger than the rest of their teeth

1) The pictures were taken by anybody named Aymin, Osama, or Hassan


Israel has bombed a crowded street in Southern Lebanon. Today's scheduled anti-American and anti-Semitic protests on that street will have to be postponed.

The strike hit a building near a mosque in the upscale southern suburb of Shiyah. You can always tell it's a richer Muslim neighborhood when everyone has the hardback edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Video of the scene of today's attack aired on Lebanese TV, showing rescuers digging for survivors in the rubble of the collapsed building. But it's not clear if that was new video, or the doctored "stock rubble footage" from Reuters.

Anti-Israel sentiment is running wild across the Arab world and fueling support for Hezbollah. But applications are still scarce for Hezbollah's "early martyrdom program."

AND IN OTHER NEWS...

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis was planning yo claim that some kind of "secret conspiracy" is the reason behind his failed drug tests... but didn't Mel Gibson just use that excuse?

Paris Hilton says she is sick of boyfriends and is going celibate. Now why couldn't her mother have been so wise?

A new study shows that teens whose iPods are full of music with raunchy, sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs. The study also showed that kids who listen to Yanni will never have sex.