Archive for July, 2010

Kiss of Peace

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Pope Picks Leader for Catholic Order
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 9, 2010
Filed at 7:56 a.m. ET
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named a senior Vatican official to run the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ after an eight-month investigation of the order.

Images: (Widmark) from KISS OF DEATH via blogs.e-rockford.com; (Pope) AP Photo(?) via lewandpolitics.com

The quotidian side of Baron Von Frankenstein, MD.

Monday, July 5th, 2010

A home office is not all it is cracked up to be.

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Image: (laboratory) aycyas.com via Frankenstein 1931

From the land of the Foxymorons comes…

Monday, July 5th, 2010

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Judge Andrew Napolitano

I certainly don’t like his political views,
but I really cannot stand his hair-dos.
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As a fellow Italian-American, I think he should at least look good while spouting his proto-reactionary language.

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You may not recognize this gentleman…
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because he looks nothing like actor Bruce Gordon,
who played him on THE UNTOUCHABLES.
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It’s Frank “The […]

LA Times Takes Heat For King Kong Advertisement Disguised As News –Huffington Post headline, 7/1/2010

Monday, July 5th, 2010

 Vincenzo Kolchak comments again…

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You know this would be more tolerable if the press and especially papers like the LA TIMES didn’t wrap themselves in the rhetoric of their sacred mission.
The Daily News, as you have many times suggested, has the decency to be what it appears to be and the ‘trinity that includes the STAR, […]

Seattle Strip-Club Magnate Dies at 93–Mafia Today headline, 7/3/

Monday, July 5th, 2010

“Not a bad page at all — I enclose another article, mainly for the headline.
I have never heard the words ’strip club’ and ‘magnate’ used in the same context.  ‘Socialite’ yes, maybe ‘czar,’ ‘local boss’ of course; but ‘magnate,’ never.”–Vincenzo Kolchak

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Image: (Edward Arnold) via nndb.com