At the G-20 Meetings in Pittsburgh…
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009*
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Image: (Photo) via huffingtonpost.com; (Big Slurpee) via image.dailyradar.com via showhype.com
Archive for the 'World' Category
“Gee, Dad, it’s a Zil!”
Sunday, September 27th, 2009They’ve only to go back to basics to restore the glory of
Russian automotive excellence.
Putin sulks as Soviet car giant stumblesSun May 27, 12:21 AM ET
by Dario Thuburn
TOLYATTI, Russia AFP) - Judging by the sulk on
Vladimir Putin’s face and the force with which he was slamming the car doors shut, the president was not […]
I’ve only found four productions, but Pop Music, Broadway, Film and Television each contributed to the project.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’»
The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image […]
W goes native, but he forgets that it is not a kilt.
Monday, November 24th, 2008*
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(Image) (Cico photo) via humanproductivitylab.com; (Bush) via huffingtonpost.com (bare legs) frugalyankee.com
The story is here.
Herein is a fascinating video of the world’s regard for our fearless leader.
Friday, November 21st, 2008Please find story and video of G20 brush-off here.
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Images: (Rocky VI) via supersatellite.com; (W) via via idesign.wordpress.com
Does this mean we shall be able to re-claim the good will squandered by King W?
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008From Times Online
November 5, 2008
World press reaction to Barack Obama’s victory
Paris, several international newspapers’ frontpages, the day after the victory of Democrat Barack Obama in US presidential election
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Headlines proclaiming Obama’s victory at an international newsstand in Paris
Kaya Burgess and Jenny Booth (Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images)
France
An editorial in the national daily Le Monde proclaims “Obama’s victory ushers […]
The funniest columnist working today is Gail Collins.
Sunday, August 24th, 2008*
August 23, 2008
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Digging Ourselves a Black Hole
By GAIL COLLINS
Exciting times coming up, people. Democratic convention! Republican convention! And then, on Sept. 10, the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider!
The Large Hadron, you may remember, is the 17-mile-long particle accelerator being built near Geneva. Once it’s up and running, its designers believe it […]
Are we missing an important point here?
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon
Big Microsoft Study Supports Small World Theory
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 2, 2008; A01
Turns out, it is a small world.
The “small world theory,” embodied in the old saw that there are just “six degrees of separation” between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely […]
Others have written epitaphs for USA Democracy…
Friday, October 26th, 2007but our ability to bounce back was fueled by a good part of the population’s knowledge of basic history. It seems as if we have lost even a modicum of realization about what had come before 24-7 celebrity watching. What other explanation can there be for the quiet acceptance of those who would shred the […]
“I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world,”
Thursday, September 20th, 2007…Giuliani told a small group of reporters at a posh London hotel as onlookers gathered in the lobby to gawk at actor Dustin Hoffman who was on a separate visit.
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When I read this at HuffingtonPost,
I immediately thought of ANNIE HALL
in which Woody Allen’s character
recalls someone from his childhood.
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ADULT ALVY
(Pointing)
Look, look, there’s-there’s that one
over there, that’s […]