I'm back, I've (more or less) caught up with the backlog of to-dos accumulated after a month away, and this blog is now ready to fire on all cylinders.
So let's start with a lovely little picture for Monday morning, via Harry's Place.

Not so much the Three Amigos (or even Stooges) as the Axis of Evil.
Spot the odd one out:
Only two fund terrorists.
PS: I liked the first comment left at the Harry's Place posting:
Which I suppose gives me just one reason to be glad that when I tried to start my car today, it wouldn't.
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Snorri Godhi
November 19th, 2007 5:34pmOnly one of them heads a truly totalitarian state; and only one of them is a friend of the British Royal Family. And it's the same one.
Lee Jakeman
November 19th, 2007 9:35pmThe odd one out is the bloke in the middle. He's a socialist, an atheist and supporter of equal rights for women and gays. He is flanked by two Islamic, God-fearing, mysogynistic and homophobic types called "Muslims".
Scipio
November 20th, 2007 7:21pmSeeing the three of them together I was wondering if I was the Jackal and had only one bullet, which one I would take out? I guess the monkey man from Persia on the left.