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I'm Sure Claude Would Be Flattered And All, But $80 Million Is Almost What Afghanistan Made On Its Heroin Tax
- Some anonymous collector just bought this Monet for $80.4 million from the kids of some famous collectors from Columbus, Indiana. No really, I thought it was a mistake too, but there really is a Columbus, Indiana, and before they died the couple who amassed this insane art collection were like the hipster royal family there. [NYT]
- A Druze border policeman killed himself in Israel while Sarkozy was watching and the family is asking that his name not be released, but like, I kind of think it's a little late for that. [Haaretz]
- I'm not saying we should adopt all Afghanistan's policies but $100 million just from taxing shit most countries pay hundreds of billions criminalizing sounds pretty tempting…[BBC
- Obama is polling creepily well right now, which makes me nervous, but can you blame the voters when McCain is out there straight-talking about how his offshore drilling ideas are kind of cheap psychological tricks? [MSNBC]
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Nancy Pelosi: Love Her Or Hate Her, There's No "Ambiguity" About Her Sense Of Style
Nancy Pelosi grew up in a tough Baltimore Italian political machine family, met her husband in a Georgetown summer class about sub-Saharan Africa, had five kids in five years, is presently the most powerful woman in Washington, and is presently loathed by the Clinton campaign, some supporters of which charge — oh for fuck's sake — that she wants to maintain her status as the "senior skirt" in Washington. But there's the thing: Nancy Pelosi wears skirts. She schmoozes and flirts and has a feminine-maternal touch, and she always looks great! The New Republic examines the Clinton/Pelosi fight in its latest issue, plus how Pelosi has been unfairly dismissed as an "airhead" and ineffectual but her crush on Obama has salvaged her stature in the eyes of the DailyKos crowd But, you know, at this hour, I'm here to look at her clothes. After the jump, a short Pelosi photo essay, with some links to information about her outfits. No wonder Charlie Rangel can't resist her! More »
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War Is Hell, But Troops Are Hot!
Welcome back reader(s.) While you were drinking Bloody Marys to soothe the damage inflicted by your spirited displays of appreciation for our troops and/or the house you bought last year, this guy was fighting the Taliban. Yes there are still 34,000 American troops doing that! But supposedly, this time, they are winning, which would sort of lend credence to Bill Kristol's assertion that the media is covering up the inspiring success story that is the war, which is sort of why I don't really buy it, since Bill Kristol's assertions about media cover ups are probably about as grounded in reality as Bill Clinton's assertions about media cover ups, which is to say: yesterday Bill Clinton said the media was covering up the fact that Obama can't win. This stands in contrast to Hillary, who thinks he might win as long as he doesn't get assassinated first like back in 1968, the year two Egyptian med school students met and formed the modern-day jihad movement. Much has changed since then, as stories in this week's New Yorker and New Republic about jihadists' disenchantment with killing people will illuminate (also for instance, Megan and I were born.) So your life could be complete upon clicking through to the jump! More »
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Will Michelle Obama Be The Next Member Oprah's Book Club?
- For some inexplicable reason publishers seem to think Michelle Obama could write a bestseller. Perhaps it was that college thesis? The admirable physique? Just hard up for cash in a challenging credit environment? [Observer]
- McCain: the "first real postmodernist candidate for the presidency." ? [NYT]
- Why would you assume our passports were made in U.S. America? [Washington Times]
- Sigh of relief for society! Jamie Lynn Spears is engaged. [US]
- Boycotting the Olympics: actually a pretty powerful condemnation of repression, when you think about it. Oh, well. [Slate]
- Some guy made up a story about how Diddy knew about Tupac's assassination plot and the LA Times totally bought it but the source turned out to be a "wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida whose own father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as 'a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug.'" [TheSmokingGun]
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Bill Richardson Loves The Muslimy Muslim From Muslimstan
Hey look! It turns out that whole time Bill Richardson was poking little rhetorical holes in Barack Obama's record, he was actually in the back of his mind thinking, "Wow, America, if you listen to all this "experience" bullshit, you're spoiling a ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME CHANCE." A once-in-a-lifetime chance to elect a Hamas loving homicide bomber lover maybe! Too bad those imprudently curious State Department heroes got found out before they could find enough evidence to put Barack Obama on the Terror Watch List. All that and Meghan McCain's tramp stamp, killer stingrays, why you shouldn't date investment bankers not that you would, and the one lady Hillary Clinton really needs to start taking fashion tips from, with me and Glamocracy's Megan Carpentier after the jump. We dangle participles with impunity, but that is typical of white people. More »
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Barack Obama's Pastor: More Hated Than The President?!
- Barack Obama has always been black, but since he was raised by a white mom in Hawaii and Jakarta he did not always have much in the way of a black community, and so when he moved to Chicago he started attending this black church where the pastor says the sort of hyperbolic shit pastors often say, only the media doesn't really cover the hyperbolic shit that gets said at black churches the way they cover the shit that gets said at white churches because black people aren't constantly trying to equate abortion with the Holocaust or replace the Constitution with the Ten Commandments, maybe because they just aren't as bossy as white religious people because they've never been in a position of societal dominance, which is actually something of which they are both aware and not exactly stoked about, and when you are a preacher you kinda play to that. So, like, Obama is going to try and address all of this in a speech tomorrow night. [CNN]
- And good luck Barry: your pastor's approval rating roughly on par with Al Qaeda's. [Rasmussen]
- But the church people love him! [ABC News]
- A leading pimp says Eliot Spitzer must have been a sex addict if he had to pay for any of his sex. [NY Mag]
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Hot Obama Adviser Samantha Power F*****s Up Big Time!
Dear Obama foreign policy adviser Samantha Power, you are hot. You are Elizabeth Kucinich hot, maybe even Huma Abedin hot. But you like to say "Fuck" and that's what really counts here. You play basketball. With George Clooney. You're a humanitarian. Marie Claire named you the Smartest Woman In America. You wrote a book on UN Sergio Vieira de Mello, which...reminds us that the Iraq War has killed not only 600,000 or so innocents, but some with really sexy names. You're not afraid to go back and admit that something you said before was "stupid." But we never really thought much about you until yesterday, when you gave an interview to a Scottish newspaper while drunk. Or something. You admitted you "fucked up" in Ohio. And then proceeded to fuck up some more! After the jump Megan Carpentier of the blog Glamocracy and I discuss whether it's possible Power called Hillary a "monster" affectionately, and also Condi, Pelosi, Boeing, Ed Rendell, anarchy in Times Square, text messages from Hamas and the Smurfs, in a special deluxe A380 sized TGIF IM. Viva Crap. More »
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Rag Trade: R.I.P. Steven Robinson
John Galliano collaborator, Steven Robinson, 38, has passed away. [WWD] More »
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