Now that they're sometimes raping and occasionally castrating men-who, of course, matter so much more than women, which is the only conceivable reason there is very little international involvement in the affairs of "post-war" Congo, the rape capital of the world-maybe the international community will take actual action in Congo now? Just asking!

In October of '07, a private shipping company lost two discs containing the names, addresses, and national insurance numbers of 25 million Britons, including everyone under the age of 16, in the mail. In June of '08, a senior intelligence officer left top secret files on al Qaeda in Pakistan and the security situation in Iraq on a train. Just last month the nation's most powerful counterterrorism officer was forced to step down after inadvertently revealing details of a major operation to press and photographers as he stepped out of his car. Given all of this, the revelation that an aide to beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown left a list of tips on how to pretty up the PM-lots of powder and bronzer-in a taxi seems to be just another episode in the nonstop tragicomedy that Brown's premiership has become. In any event, we're mainly writing this so we can ask about the picture here: It looks like something, but I'm damned if I can figure it out. Choire suggested Peter Murphy, which seems right, and I was thinking some kind of Stephen Duffy photo-shut up, the Lilac Time was great-but neither of those seem to work. Any ideas?