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... )

As promised, the other links to Tim Curry’s musical performances! A special shout-out to Cynthis Knight who introduced me to all of this a LONG time ago.  I wish the video was better; I’ll refer you to anything of his on CD for better sound.

• Anyone who had a heart
• A reggae version of I Will
• Birds of a feather
• Wake Nicodemus with a Scottish theme
• a ( 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... )

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... )

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... )

Discussion about a bailout bill for newspapers if they reorganize as 501c3 not-for-profits; the President had this to say about it:

Obama said that good journalism is “critical to the health of our democracy,” but expressed concern toward growing tends in reporting - especially on political blogs, from which a groundswell of support for his ( Read more... )