Gallows humour salve to despair – World – theage.com.au
Unconfirmed reports out of Baghdad are reporting that Saaed Khalifa has been killed. He was featured here in an Oct. 7th blog entry.
Nearly every night for the past month, weary Iraqis have been turning on the television to watch a wacky-looking man with a giant Afro wig and star-shaped glasses deliver the grim news of the day.
In a recent episode, Saaed Khalifa reported that Iraq’s Ministry of Water and Sewage had decided to change its name to simply the Ministry of Sewage — because it had given up on the water part.