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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Alien presents F-35 as proof of intelligent life to Homeworld government

Did you ever actually SEE a debris field?

Alien presents F-35 as proof of intelligent life to Homeworld government
A Glorpidonian engineer puzzles over airworthiness of the rudimentary F35 Lightning

ANDROMEDA GALAXY — Uproar broke out on planet Glorpidon IV yesterday as an extraglorrestrial visitor to Earth arrived back on his home planet, proudly presenting an F-35 Lightning fighter jet as undeniable proof that intelligent life exists beyond the stars.

The alien, known in his native tongue as Zarblax, claimed to have obtained the state-of-the-art aircraft just lying around during a visit to Earth, an unimpressive planet orbiting Sol in the boonies of the Milky Way.

Zarblax addressed the High Council of Glorpidon IV in a press conference that left planetary leaders both bewildered and skeptical.

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