Two items of interest in today's New York Times - a hilarious historical lesson from Steve Martin and an editorial on Oil-For-Food. How utterly sad and predictable is it that the Times considers calls for Annan's resignation "premature"? That hasn't been the case for at least 8 or 9 months now. And why is the headline "The UN Oil Scandal"? It's not an oil scandal, we're used to those. It's an oil-for-food scandal, food that was meant to feed the Iraqi people and was instead used for political gain by a dictator. SHEESH - the 'newspaper of record', indeed...
Meanwhile, Kojo Annan is even more of a shill than was first thought (link via Instapundit)...
An interesting candidate has emerged for Secretary General (another Instapundit hat tip)...
The Minneapolis Star Tribune thinks conservative bloggers are a bigger threat to the world than Kofi Annan's incompetence (hat tip on this one to Hindrocket at Power Line)...
UPDATE 11:34 am central: Belmont Club notes an LA Times piece that argues that the US is out to lynch the UN and not the secretary general - strong word, that lynch, a tipoff that you're not exactly looking at a reasoned argument. The larger point about the UN being the target of quite reasonable calls for its dissolution - well, others much more qualified than me have made that argument quite well, and I'm convinced (hat tip to bebere)...
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