In 1960, Khrushchev oddly lacked red shoes.
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Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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Image: (shoe) via inquirer.net
Archive for April, 2008
The following two posts may require a strong stomach and even stronger sense of the absurd.
Friday, April 18th, 2008*
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Boolah-Boolah
I am happy that I did not show outrage in my comments which mirrored Vincenzo Kolchak’s certainty that the artist was only foolin.’
Friday, April 18th, 2008Shvarts, Yale clash over project
By Zachary Abrahamson, Thomas Kaplan and Martine Powers
Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught — at least according to the University.
“The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity […]
For Senior, Abortion a Medium for Art, Political Discourse–Yale Daily News headline
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Titian had started this way…
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Martine Powers
Yale Daily News
Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, April 17, 2008
Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce […]
GRIM MOMENTS IN MARKETING XIX…
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008*
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Images: (Original package) gordonfamily.com; (Whipped) holycowmilk.com
We’ll never be able to look at documentaries about Nazi Germany in the same way.
Monday, April 14th, 2008Huffington Post
Andrew Sullivan: Bush Administration Officials Will Be ‘Indicted For War Crimes’
April 6, 2008 02:14 PM
Jason Linkins
Media coverage of the disclosure of the “torture memo” authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. But on this morning’s Chris Matthews’ show, someone finally fired a shot. As we mentioned […]
From the “Please don’t throw me into the Briar Patch” department…
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
1,300 Iraqi troops, police dismissed
By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 9 minutes ago
The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month’s offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said 921 police and […]
Who needs Forty Thieves?
Sunday, April 13th, 2008From the Los Angeles Times
CAMPAIGN ‘08
Bill Clinton, China linked via his foundation
A firm that has donated to the president’s charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists. Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China’s actions.
By Stephen Braun
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 13, 2008
NEW YORK — As Chinese authorities have […]
Only the Bushes are more low rent than the Clintons.
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Why Gov. Bill Richardson didn’t endorse Clinton
The New Mexico governor says he was dismayed by pressure from the Clinton camp, and impressed by Obama’s optimism. Besides, ‘you don’t transfer loyalty to a dynasty.’
By Mark Z. Barabak
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 12, 2008
SANTA FE, N.M. — Before he endorsed Barack Obama, before he drew the wrath […]
In case you may have forgotten Senators Schumer and Feinstein voted for Mukasey.
Saturday, April 12th, 2008baltimoresun.com
Bush stance likened to Nixon’s
Judiciary Committee lawyers urge judge to make White House answer subpoenas
Associated Press
April 11, 2008
WASHINGTON President Bush’s refusal to let two confidants provide information to Congress about fired federal prosecutors represents the most expansive view of executive privilege since Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee told a federal judge yesterday.
Lawyers for the Democratic-led […]
Thank you, General Eaton. W’s sportin’ the troops has long passed ridiculous.
Saturday, April 12th, 2008CNN.com
Anderson Cooper 360 Blog
April 11, 2008
Gen. Paul Eaton: In Iraq, where is the cavalry?
Posted: 11:21 AM ET
The Bush administration has chosen to abandon our under-equipped and over-burdened military to fight alone in Iraq.
After successfully alienating potential allies in the prosecution of our war in Iraq, this Administration continues to view our first truly interagency war […]
Congratulations, Tyrannosaurus Rex whose favorite food is the American economy.
Friday, April 11th, 2008*
SPEND IT IN HELL!
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Exxon CEO Had a $16.7 Million Year
As Oil Price Skyrocketed,
Firm Had Record Profit
And Chief’s Pay Soared
By RUSSELL GOLD
April 11, 2008; Page B8
How much compensation befits the chief executive who delivered the most profitable year ever for a U.S. company?
For the Exxon Mobil Corp. board of directors, the answer was a $16.7 million […]
The Detroit Free Press has listed the Metro Area’s Top 25 Sandwiches…
Friday, April 11th, 2008These two meals on bread did not make the initial cut,
but I foresee a great future for them.
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THE RAMAR
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Images: (Original sandwich photos) Detroit Free Press-#1 Sylvia Rector; #2 Mary Schroeder; (lava) via englishpeople.com & pe.pbs.org & veronicadelacruz.wordpress.com via cache.eb.com; (sky) (jungle) jungletarpon.com; (snakes) oregonstate.edu;
How much must we see before realizing the lunacy of electing a dynasty?
Friday, April 11th, 2008The Note:
Err Apparent Lessons From Bill On How to Keep a Campaign From Gaining Ground
By RICK KLEIN with MIKE ELMORE
April 11, 2008
ABC NEWS
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Former president Bill Clinton…said, “one time late at night when she (Hillary) was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.”
Where to start? If his telling […]
Cokie, Timmy Russert, Davey Gregory and Wolfie Blitzer are personalities who have never remided me of Robert Trout, Harry Reasoner and the other luminaries of electronic journalism.
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Had our country relied upon these folks, Senator Joe McCarthy would have had a street named after him in every U.S. municipality.
Think Progress
April 8, 2008
Uninformed Cokie Roberts leaps to Cheney’s defense.
During the roundtable discussion on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, and ABC’s Cokie Roberts discussed Cheney’s callous dismissiveness […]
“Through the glass darkly” was never more appropriate as a campaign strategy.
Monday, April 7th, 2008Think Progress
April 7, 2008
Despite His Votes To Cut Veterans Funding, McCain Says We Owe Vets ‘A Debt We Can Never Repay’
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He also said that veterans should have access to “the highest quality health…care in the world” upon returning:
As President, I will do everything in my power to ensure that those who serve today and those […]
R.I.P. Judah Ben-Hur
Monday, April 7th, 2008*
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Images:(C. Heston as Ben-Hur) via img5.allcine.fr via screenrush.co.uk; (French Horn) via upload.wikipedia.org
The banks now parrot the Blessed Reverend in THE LOVED ONE…
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 “I’ve got to find a way yo get those stiffs off my property!”
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Foreclosures come to McMansion country
By Andy Sullivan 53 minutes ago
LEESBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Million-dollar fixer-upper for sale: five bedrooms, four baths, three-car garage, cavernous living room. Big holes above fireplace where flat-screen TV used to hang.
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The U.S. housing crisis has come to […]
Penn’s Out. The writing was on the wall.
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Hillary Clinton strategist quits amid Colombia trade flap
By Ellen Wulfhorst 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - A top campaign aide to Sen. Hillary Clinton, under fire for meeting with a Colombian diplomat to discuss a free trade deal that the presidential candidate opposes, quit his post on Sunday, the campaign said.
“After the […]
Why go out on a limb, Al? Besides, it’s old news. The Delphic Oracle is giving even better odds and they don’t charge the 25 cent vig.
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Reuters
More than 50 percent chance of U.S. recession: Greenspan
By Sonya Dowsett
Sun Apr 6, 6:15 AM ET
There is more than a 50 percent chance the United States could go into recession, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told El Pais newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.
However, the U.S. has not yet entered recessionary state marked […]
This moron has been blaming everyone else for a long time. Cannot he begrudgingly admit he’s a jackass?
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Insider: Iraq Attack Was Preemptive
April 6, 2008(CBS) The first Pentagon insider to give his account of the run-up to war says the attack on Iraq was more a defensive move against possible future threats from Saddam Hussein than a retaliation for the 9/11 attacks. Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense for policy, also tells […]