The 2005-2006 baseball season is but a week away, yet a simmering conflict between Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos and Major League Baseball officials has left the Washington Nationals without a television broadcasting deal. But the Post’s creative online design put the whole dispute into perspective: relatively speaking, better no TV deal for the hometown team than no functioning government, as Iraq must well know.

Update: The screen capture was taken at 11:50 a.m. As of 12:15 p.m., the Post changed the headline of the Iraq story to “Iraq Government Fails to Form.”

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