h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Iraq smells odd tonight. Scientifically, we have an inversion, so everything is being held in place. What it boils down to, though, is that it's hot, and we're surrounded by the stench of everything that's happened. Thank god nothing major has happened.

But I walk to work just prior to midnight, fighting my way through the heat, the smell of burned jet fuel, the acrid reek of the portajohns, the smoke from the Army burning their trash, and the thousand other smells that normally escape into the atmosphere. But tonight we marinate in them.

This is not weather that bodes well. My headache is approaching DefCon 2. I don't think I'll be enjoying the night.