Here’s proof of the perfectability of Humankind. In the vernacular, it’s called a ’second chance.’
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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Images: (Broken) via holdensmith.com; (Watergate) via thefunkstore.com; (Conservatives) via image.barnesandnoble.com
Archive for the 'Books' Category
Cindy McCain Says She’ll Never Release Her Tax Returns–AP headline 5/8/08
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Images: (poster) via 625.org.uk via airminded.org(Cindy M.) observer.cast.advomatic.com via observer.com; (THINGS TO COME scene) bp0.blogger.com via dailyfilmdose.blogspot.com
What about those numerous times that Mao and friends called us Running Dogs and Paper Tigers? Ooops. Statute of Limitations is up.
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CNN Sued For $1.3 Billion Over Cafferty Remarks
Huffington Post via Reuters | April 25, 2008 08:36 AM
Jack Cafferty set off a firestorm in China after his remarks (seen here) that the the nation is full of “goons and thugs” and that their exports are “junk.” The Chinese government demanded that CNN […]
Miley Cyrus To Write Her Memoirs
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 While I was somewhat distressed by this story emailed by Vincenzo Kochak, I must commend him for including an excerpt from the chapter on her literary influences.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:11 PM EDT
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The multi-hyphenate teen (15-year-old) star has signed a book deal to tell the story of her […]
The Reagan-Bushes-Clinton Legacy keeps on ticking…
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008118 years after
Jacob Riis’ HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
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42 years after
Michael Harrington’s THE OTHER AMERICA.
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This is the true obscenity of unrestrained greed
with its consorts of arrogance and stupidity.
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ABC NEWS
April 22, 2008
Life Expectancy Slips in Poor Parts of America
New Study Shows Drop in Life Expectancy in Deep South, Parts of Midwest, Texas […]
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY! WAR IS PEACE! IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH! AMERICAN IDOL IS REAL!
Monday, March 17th, 2008Friday, Mar. 14, 2008
Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
By Massimo Calabresi/Washington
Pity America’s poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board […]
• Study Says Most Suicide Bombers Are Alienated Young Men–Yahoo headline
Sunday, March 16th, 2008So it wasn’t some fraternity hazing ritual?
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Image: (Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft) amazon.co.uk
This was a plot to a bad movie with John Travolta and Nick Cage.
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Hey, It’s Still Me in Here
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Pej Behdarvand for The New York Times
YOU DID WHAT? Pat Casanova of Los Angeles had a face-lift two years ago. Some friends were a bit shocked.
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This is NOT Pat Casanova.
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By MIREYA NAVARRO
Published: December 30, 2007
LOS ANGELES
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Lois W. Stern interviewed more than 100 women for “Sex, Lies and Cosmetic Surgery: Things […]
Jesse James, Zachary Taylor and Yves Montand…Is Ms. Bhutto next?
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 This online CNN story struck Vincenzo Kolchak as strange and
threw him into a reverie which produced the vignette below the image.
Bhutto exhumation okay, Pakistan official says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto’s political party exhuming the slain opposition leader’s body if they see a need […]
These guys reminds me of cockroaches when confronted by a bright light.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007MSNBC.com
Feds retreat on Amazon buyers’ identities
Subpoena pulled after ruling that protects book customers’ privacy
The Associated Press
updated 7:35 p.m. ET, Tues., Nov. 27, 2007
MADISON, Wisconsin - U.S. prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com Inc., newly unsealed court records show.
The withdrawal came after […]
Bush lied??? To get re-elected??? N’ah…
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007The following excerpt is from the November 20, 2007 POLITICO story about Scott McClellan’s book’s revelations about the deceit used during the Plame affair.
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“Shortly after news of the McClellan excerpt broke, Politico caught up with Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, two reporters who received information about Valerie Plame’s identity and were caught up in […]