Juan Cole's dark sense of humor brings us Iraq-themed chicken jokes. This being about Iraq, things do not usually go very well for the chicken. Let's hope Heidi Bond doesn't see these.
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Put this up the other day:
Rumskull:
Reports that say that the chicken crossed the road are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known chickens; there are chickens we know we know. We also know there are chicken unknowns; that is to say we know there are some chickens we do not know. But there are also unknown chickens the chickens we don’t know we don’t know.
(For which he won this award)