Punchlines: Jul. 3, 2006

"President Bush has created the world's largest protected marine area, dubbed the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument. It contains sea life that has inspired some of our most breathtaking screen savers." JON STEWART

"There's a restaurant in Florida offering a hamburger for $100. It sounds like a lot of money, but for the $100, you get the hamburger and a little hat that reads, I'M AN IDIOT." DAVID LETTERMAN

"The company that makes Legos has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Mexico. Lego employees say it's their own fault because they made the factory too easy to take apart and rebuild somewhere else." CONAN O'BRIEN

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President BARACK OBAMA, at NATO talks involving over 50 world leaders, describing the withdrawal of 130,000 combat troops from Afghanistan, planned for the end of 2014
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