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WaPo - Condoleezza Rice’s Commanding Clothes, by Robin Givhan

Rice boldly eschewed the typical fare chosen by powerful American women on the world stage. She was not wearing a bland suit with a loose-fitting skirt and short boxy jacket with a pair of sensible pumps. She did not cloak her power in photogenic hues, [...]

Categories: Politics

I saw this this morning and though, “Oh, lord. Bunch of children.” Then Chrenkoff swoops in and saves the day, turns the tables, and generally earns multitudinous mixed metaphors.

Chrenkoff - The joke’s on “USA Today”

Drudge reports: “President Bush addressed Slovakian citizens on the merits of freedom during an open air public [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Has left Southampton!

(The Madama Butterfly, with 2600 car capacity. Why they’d name a sea vessel after a suicidal opera heroine is beyond me. “sob I cannot take it anymore! glub glub glub“)

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Do bears s**t in the woods?

Elvis Costello = Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus, from Wikipedia - Stage Names, via An Englishman’s Castle.

It is Rita Hayworth. Her real name is Margarita Carmen Cansino, which was too “Mexican” apparently. I heard that story but I was never sure if it was her, or if I had [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Phantasmagoria - puppy

awwww, lookit the little floppy ears!

Categories: People and Current Events

Except Winston Churchill is already dead.

Power Line quotes him:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity [...]

Categories: History

Perhaps not.

Lileks:

I don’t know why, but for some reason the term “German Expressionist” just looked amusingly contradictory, like “Prussian Eroticism.” Of course the Germans are very good at making expressive music, sometimes overly so. But you don’t think of them as an expressive people. Hence it comes out in adagios, or blitzkriegs.

ninme giggles

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Pope readmitted to Rome hospital

Pope John Paul II has returned to the Rome hospital where he was treated earlier this month for flu-related breathing problems. The Vatican said he had suffered a relapse of his flu condition.

Not saying much more than that.

Categories: People and Current Events

Natalie Portman’s in Jerusalem:

The Israeli-born Portman, 23, has been studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in recent months.

Remember when Madonna went to Jerusalem? And everyone was falling all over themselves that she could prove that it isn’t dangerous there, and isn’t she brave going, and lookit all the body guards she has?

Well [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Yesterday I broke 500 visits a day with 501!

And it gets better! I’m a Flappy Bird! I’ve been crawling or slimy since December, at least.

Categories: Wildcard

Rush Limbaugh is in Afghanistan this week. Whether or not you like him (I do) it’s worth listening to the audio of his calls into his show.

Tuesday Wednesday Friday

Rush Recaps Afghanistan Trip:

“Our Country Is Doing the Lord’s Work” What I Told Our Troops General Wardak and Dan Rather Why Terrorists Went to Iraq Nobody Kicks Ass Without Tanker Gas The EIB [...]

Categories: War and Peace

This is added to my list of I Love Laura Bush posts.

Chicago Tribune - First Family of culture? By Robin Abcarian

Laura Bush’s love of reading befits her background as a former librarian and teacher. Presidential biographers have recounted that on her first visit to the Bush family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, when [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

He just emailed me “OMG PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE” and linked to this article:

Tivo rallies on talk Apple is eyeing co. as a buy

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Shares of digital video recording device maker TiVo rallied as much as 20 percent Wednesday after Inside Digital Media said that Apple Computer is considering buying TiVo. [...]

Categories: Electronics

Mark Steyn just called Canada a colony!

hahaha

He’s on Hugh Hewitt right now, and he also agrees completely with me on Hunter S. Thompson.

Oh my god he just compared Kurdistan to Scotland! That’s what I said! Back in December!

I think it would be so fun to corner Mark Steyn in a coffee shop and [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Tim Blair - Rove’s Brilliant Plan

A mere taste:

Rove: But now is not the time for fault-finding, or skull-crushing. Now is the time for action. Serious action. In fact, the most serious action it is possible for us to undertake. Murdoch: You don’t mean … ? Rove: Yes. [...]

Categories: Politics