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Casual Friday: Fun, maybe, but not useful

Entertaining Lies

Okay, it's not Friday, it's Wednesday.  That should be your first hint.

At Registan.net, they’ve been discussing how ridiculous things get in a hurry when news analysts get dramatic.  This is particularly related to new developments in the Nazarbaev – Aliev controversy now spinning out.

This is my mostly non-verbal warning for all Central Asia watchers to BEWARE mistaking printed material for factual reporting.  I also mis-spelled recipes on purpose. (sure I did).

For those of you who are still not sure, I am: no one is in Cozumel via flying saucer.

Photos: and I do apologize to serious news sources for taking their stuff in vain:  Fortunecity.com; Alienshift.com; Kub.kz, PamPeck.com