So I'm sitting here minding my own business, doing a little mudcatting. All of a sudden Internet Explorer spams me with a really strange pop-up ad. There's a creepy orange cat grinning and waving at me.

The ad says, "Send a greeting from (cat's name) to your friends". And it's got a fill-in form thingie for me to put the names and addresses of my friends so that they may be spammed by Internet Explorer and be waved at by the creepy orange cat.

Then I look up in the upper right corner of the spam box, and I see the logo for the US Airforce. Apparently the US Airforce is using the creepy orange cat as sucker bait to get addresses for fresh meat recruits for W's war in Iraq.

I didn't think it was possible to be blatantly insideous, but I guess I was wrong about that. This was the most blatantly insideous thing I've seen since McDonald's started putting their logo on children's clothing and selling them in department stores.