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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has long been known for his animated press conferences. Websites such as Cynical-C Blog (CYNICAL-C.COM) and Pale Blue Dot (PALEBLUE.US) are having fun highlighting his fighting poses. Among our favorites: the Twin Cobra Fist, Sleeping Dragon and, above, the dreaded Spider Hand...
...empty threats. Either way, our enemies know that it makes little difference to our military decisions whether they choose to be cooperative or belligerent. So why cooperate? To end up like Saddam “I Opened My Country to Inspectors and All I Got Was This Lousy Spider Hole” Hussein? No thanks...
...should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines in a musty lace filigree. Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a Saddam-like spider hole, where I hide from current (to me debased) pop culture, and from the encroaching, inevitable future...
CANNIBALS Love hurts--and in some species, it kills. For the praying mantis and the Australian redback spider, it's boy meets girl, girl eats boy. But not until boy passes along his genes to the next generation. In the marine bristle worm, however, it's boy eats girl. The male guards the fertilized eggs until they hatch, and since the female dies after mating anyway, the male sometimes has her for supper. For species that have little chance of mating again, a parent offering itself as a last meal can be a bit of insurance that the offspring will...
...SPIDER HOLE Within hours, Saddam's sad hideaway resurrected a term not heard much since Vietnam...