I refer everyone to the current front pages of the Ironic Times and the Daily Probe. The Iraqi Information Minister will always be funny! Always! There is no truth to the rumour of the joke being over-used!

Meanwhile, SARS panic continues to spread significantly faster than the disease itself, getting totally out of hand, although I have to say I think Toronto's complaints are unjustified given that the rest of the world put travel bans on Hong Kong and other places long before they had as many as 200 cases.

Personally, I'm unsure about whether to worry or not. It's not a nice disease, certainly, and they don't really know how to stop it, yet. It also seems to be spreading quite easily even in cities like HK that are trying really hard to stop it. And people say the death rate is "only" 5%, like that's supposed to make me feel better. 5% is also a conservative estimate of the percentage of homosexuals in the population: 1 in 20. And there are loads of gay people; therefore, 5% is a lot of deaths! So I'll stay scared for the moment, I think.

And for lighter entertainment, will the real Saddam Hussein please stand up?

Oh, and just in case you were wondering if there really was someone tasteless and sleazy enough, yet well enough informed on current events to create a porn video called Weapons of Ass Destruction, yes, they really did. No, it's not even a parody. You can actually buy 138 minutes of ass-destruction action, starring (I kid you not) Arnold Schwarzenpecker. You may remember him from such films as "Stuff Your Face #01", "Stuff Your Face Again", "Stuff Your Ass #03" or that family favourite "Butt-Hole In One". Or then again, maybe you won't. But either way, don't miss out on this cinematic gem! The DVD features bonus footage and a "fetish index" if you want to skip straight to your kink of choice; it's that kind of thoughtful extra design work that really makes me appreciate sleazy porn DVDs...

Warning for the brain dead: these links are, obviously, not safe for work. They go to porn video stores. That really wouldn't look good.

Update: And since you keep asking, I found the site by typing weapons of ass destruction into Google, okay? Because I wondered if anybody had actually made the video, because it was mentioned as a joke in the Onion a while back. No really. I don't browse these sites for fun. What do you think I am, straight? Speculation along the same lines has also led Rob to point out Shaving Ryan's Privates, and Gone in 69 Seconds, starring the excellently-named Johnny Packwood and Johnny Thrust, and which features the following excellent "plot" synopsis:

A latex clad female car theft ing terrorizes the city of Los Angeles. Led by their kinky latex loving master, Malakai, the women are complete and willing sexual slaves who will do anything for his love.

Have these people no shame at all? Oh, wait, they're B-list porn stars. I forgot.