This is about what I had figured.

Interesting article in The Diplomat about the inability of the Congress Party of India to give up the idea of (wait-for-it) a decendant of Jawaharlal Nehru / Indira Gandhi to come along and be the Chosen-One Golden-Child to lead them.

Never mind that they don’t seem to avoid sudden violent death at an early age, ( Read more... )

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Royal wedding: Just another week for the Abbey - Telegraph.

Article about how Westminster Abbey is always busy-busy, and this is largely just another week - with the exception of Prince William’s wedding.

“Between now and the royal wedding, the Abbey will hold 27 different services. Yesterday, the Queen came to the Abbey to present the specially ( Read more... )

Still coughing and whatnot, but it seems that the more unbroken sleep I get the better off I am - also did a little shopping and took care of some quick errands with my MIL driving me around on Saturday; first time I’d felt like I hadn’t been knocked around for a week or so. Enjoyed the nice weather (raining cats and dogs now) and soaked up a ( Read more... )

When I was first introduced to Science Fiction Fandom in 1977, one of the first people I ever met regularly at cons was Mike Glicksohn. I learned several things from him, even if they didn’t catch on immediately to my boyish brain - that you should never get involved in a poker game unless your were really good at it, and to avoid Diablo (a ( Read more... )

While you can’t count me as one of Rahm Emanuel’s fans, I am annoyed at the people who have been pushing ever-so-hard through the courts the idea that the man can’t run for mayor of Chicago because he’s a non-resident.   He votes here (as does the President), he has a house here (as does the President), and so on. But now the whole thing is going ( Read more... )

Meredith and Eric took first place at the National Championships with a flawless, beautiful performance… stunned the people online and the commentators with **OMG WHO ARE THESE GUYS!!!** reactions. They can’t go to World Championships until the elder is 14, which is next year. But my god, they were the best I’ve ever seen them, and their heads ( Read more... )

Michael Jackson commissioned fantasy art about himself that defies description; one of the pieces resembles a Communist Chinese propaganda poster with Comrade Michael leading the oppressed children of the world…just check out the pieces and imagine how much he spent on this stuff.

I’m thinking of a Botticelli-like painting like that first one with ( Read more... )

http://bit.ly/6bT2Os  (from the Newseum, possibly not good after tonight - front page of today’s Daily Herald)


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http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1
The Power of Two:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098
Photo gallery of the kids, etc.  The Intro picture is particularly stunning.

This has been in the works since spring.  Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots ( Read more... )