HERE’S THE LATEST NEWS from the Security Council:

(2002-09-19) — The United Nations Security Council today approved a resolution calling for Iraq to play ‘hide and seek’ with U.N. weapons inspectors.

“First, our weapons inspectors will cover their eyes,” said Secretary General Koffi Anan. “Then they will begin counting…one Mississippi, two Mississippi, and so on. When they get to six billion Mississippi, they will formally declare ‘Ready or not, here we come!’…and in they go to see how many weapons of mass destruction they can find.”

A motion to make the inspectors “count to infinity plus infinity” was narrowly defeated by the council.

Well, thank goodness for that.