Priorities

A maniac holds a knife to the throat of one of our own.

Our response:

"It was deplorable," pronounced [Patricia Hewitt, British Health Secretary], "that the woman hostage should be shown smoking. This sends completely the wrong message to our young people."

Because, you know, it's always possible that the lung cancer will get her before the beheading does.

... But honestly, who has a death wish again?

[Via The London Fog, via various other people.]