David Barillari père

While this year’s entry may be more aesthetically pleasing, his last year’s entry was as big as all outdoors.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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(AP Photo/Cheez-It, Ray Stubblebine)
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(Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
That was now…
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This is then…

More Grim Moments in Marketing…

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Why in heaven’s name did they want the tribute in life-size?

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The Post-Crescent, Michael P. King
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This is not the first time a company has employed a national treasure as a means of advertising its products.
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In the Spring, 2005 a public relations team […]

Posted in USA, Oddity, Cuisine |

Happy Fourth, everyone!

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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THANKS, TOM.

Image: (Thomas Paine)
(1737 – 1809), oil painting by Auguste Millière (1880), after an engraving by William Sharp, after a portrait by George Romney (1792). National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sourceteachpol.tcnj.edu/ via wikipedia.org

Posted in USA, Thomas Paine |

Who says ‘progress is linear?’

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

TV DECODER
New York Times
May 22, 2008, 7:24 pm

By Brian Stelter
The 2007-08 broadcast TV season came to a close on Wednesday, and Nielsen (and the networks) have been busy crunching the numbers since then.
Which reality shows, dramas and comedies can reliably boast of being top-rated? Here’s the top-20 TV ranker for the season. On top, […]

Posted in Society, Television, USA |

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

Posted in Congress, administration, Constitution, Republicans, Books, USA, Neo-Romanovs, Ukraine, White House, Watergate, John Dean |

It’s not that W has such a low positive rating; the mystery is that he has any positive rating.

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Capitol Hill Blue
Bush’s legacy: An America in decline
March 17, 2008 - 5:55am
President Bush’s unilateral decision to invade Iraq five years ago has not only cost America power, influence and prestige but has also plunged the nation into economic chaos and left America with lagging morale and hope for the future.
That’s the conclusion of an increasing […]

Posted in Bush, Iraq, Economy, USA |

Dick ‘n W work to keep drug prices low in their inimitable way…

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

and their method will save oil by substituting
a trip to the sink for a drive to the doctor.
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AP water probe prompts Senate hearings
By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
March 10, 2008
Two veteran U.S. senators said Monday they plan to hold hearings in response to an Associated Press investigation into the presence of trace amounts of […]

Posted in administration, Environment, Health, Cong-SENATE, USA, Medicine, Water |

Doug Thomspson synthesizes Senator Obama’s magnetism.

Friday, February 15th, 2008

The Rant
Time for a real leader

Capitol Hill Blue

February 15, 2008 - 8:10am

By DOUG THOMPSON

Hillary Rodham Clinton claims she has “solutions” while Barack Obama only has “speeches.” Obama, she says borrowing an old Texas cliché, is “all hat and no cattle.”
From this vantage point, we’ll take Obama’s words over Clinton’s solutions. Given her performance in the […]

Posted in Bush, Hillary Clinton, USA, Bush 41, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter |

Dick ‘n W cannot find the exit soon enough for most humans.

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Capitol Hill Blue
The failed Presidency of George W. Bush
February 1, 2008 - 6:51am
He had a chance to lead: He blew that chance
By ANN McFEATTERS
President Bush is a forgotten man. Giving his last State of the Union speech, he was overshadowed by a tempest in a teapot. (Did Barack Obama snub Hillary Clinton or merely turn […]

Posted in Bush, Cheney, USA |

Think about this Ernie Kovacs’ “Strangely Believe It.”

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

1790–1862
10th President of the United States
In office
April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845
Vice President(s) none
Preceded by William Henry Harrison
Succeeded by James K. Polk
Children
By Letitia Christian Tyler
Mary Tyler (1815-48); Robert Tyler (1816-77); John Tyler (1819-96); Letitia Tyler (1821-1907); Elizabeth Tyler (1823-50); Anne Contesse […]

Posted in USA, Oddity |

Musharraf to West: ‘We have our own brains’–CNN.com headline, January 24, 2008

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is lashing out at what he calls Western “intellectual arrogance” toward his country, angrily dismissing claims that rising unpopularity has undermined his authority. He also dismisses allegations that he cannot be trusted to hold free and fair elections as “totally absurd.”
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“You see?! You see?! Brains we got.
Arms and money we need.
You […]

Posted in Movies, USA, Pakistan |

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