Australian rednecks

Tim Blair has found a website devoted to the Australian version of the redneck, the bogan.

Run! It's the Flannelgraph Antichrist!

What could be a cuddlier way to explain the end of the world? Try Stories in Revelation for Tots to Teens--in flannelgraph form!

Update: I think that "The Flannelgraph AntiChrist" would be an usual name for a blog, now that I think about it. I wonder if someone is already using it.

When going with the lowest bidders may not be the best idea

Now it can be revealed--1950s footage of ICBMs exploding when they are not supposed to, namely during top secret tests.

I missed the great energy crisis of 1996. I guess that I was off the planet at the time

Here's Superkids, a 1975 propaganda comic by the Canadian federal government which explains that if we don't save energy there will be a huge energy crisis in 1996.

Hat tip: Colby Cosh.

What's really sad is that I remember reading that comic in elementary school!

Show us your bullets!

Here's a series of pictures of pretty soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces. (Who knows, maybe this will result in search engine hits for me other than "Is Ben Mulroney gay?)

Hat tip: Tim Blair.