MoDo: Iraq has turned into 'The Ransom of Red Chief'

Thank God, for MoDo.

I needed to lighten up, before I start slapping peoples' ears off

tbe Progressive American:

"The invasion of Iraq has turned into 'The Ransom of Red Chief.'

The famous short story by O. Henry, published in 1910, begins, 'It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.'
The tale is about a couple of guys who have a bold, illicit scheme they assume will be easy, but it ends up backfiring. The idea, one confesses afterward, must have struck them 'during a moment of temporary mental apparition.' "