Taking Bill Murray Seriously

According to Michael Yon, Al Qaeda in Iraq has been busy passing new regulations in regions of the country that it controls. Obviously, they're cutting off the fingers of smokers.

Other AQI edicts included beatings for men who refused to grow beards, and corporal punishments for obscene sexual suggestiveness, defined by such "loose" behavior as carrying tomatoes and cucumbers in the same bag.

This is, oddly enough, the second blogosphere vegetable sex scandal of the last few days. The first came when Ann Althouse suggested that, in a filmed scene staring Bill and Hillary Clinton, carrots and onion rings unavoidably take on psycho-sexual meaning.