THE BEAUTY QUEENS’ CRUSADE
Miss America is roused from her post-pageant funk by the familiar strains of Burt Parks. . .
Category: Distraction
We Are Not Alone
Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper claims to have had documented alien company when he was up in space, and despite the fact that Earth Day was last week, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell feels that the real action is elsewhere. He grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, and claims to have been told things as a boy by people who witnessed perhaps the most famous UFO event of our time. “Our destiny,” Mitchell says, “in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. … We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.”
George W. Bush Liebrary Update: Fund Drive Kills
An urgent fund raising letter sent to current and prospective donors to the George W. Bush Presidential Liebrary has met with an overwhelming response, yielding over $100 million since the Bush Administration left office.
They’re Here To Fux You Up
Maybe Rush Limpbot will buy an island somewhere,
and you can all immigrate there, take a loyalty oath,
and form yourselves a little wingnut paradise.
Biden Steps In It Again
Shortly after Vice President Joe Biden went off message on The Today Show this morning, he was called into President Obama‘s office. Also present was a nurse, an anesthesiologist, and a doctor threading a long, sharp needle with some bright red, thick thread. “Have a seat, Joe” said the president, gesturing towards a dental chair in front of the medical …
Bachmann Adds To Her Legacy
Well, the hits keep on coming. Michelle Bachmann on the suspicious re-emergence of swine flu “under another Democratic president”: “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter,” said Bachmann. “And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.” …
100 Daze
Geithner & Summers manning the oars after Bush decided to empty the boat’s bilges by drilling a hole in its bottom Bush sinks the economic ship of state. Obama launches the life rafts, piloted by Wall Street insiders Timmeh Geithner and Larry Summers. But the sharks (hedge funds, private equity firms) are circling and there’s lots of stormy weather ahead. …
