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For the puppet enthusiast who has everything, the "Gone But Not Forgotten" finger puppet set from NYC's Moss makes the perfect Christmas gift. The set of hand-crocheted finger puppets commemorating celebrities who died in 2008 includes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jesse Helms, Maharishi Maresh Yogi, Yves Saint Laurent, Charlton Heston, and Heath Ledger. The set, designed by Francesca Basilico, costs $90. [Gothamist via NewYorkology] More »
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So America is 232 and Jesse Helms is dead at 86. Helms was, so you know, "not the least bit racist" — it says so right in the memoir he wrote after resigning from a six-decade career marked by such notable episodes as the time he referred to his state's public university system as University of Negroes and Communists and the time he approved that campaign spot against a black candidate blaming the recession on minority affirmative action hires, and the multiple times he spoke longingly of the Confederacy, along with the time he refused to speak to Ryan White's mom in an elevator because to do so might acknowledge that AIDS could happen in the absence of homosexual sex or that time…well, you get the picture. Three decades or so after it started infecting people Bono finally got Helms to admit AIDS was killing some innocents, and if Bono forgave him who are we to…yeah, anyway. That and: is Obama being dissed by Hill's Raisers? Is our children who are not studious Chinese immigrants learning? And is it time to invest in tupperware? That and more with me & Glamocracy's Megan, after the jump. More »
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