“We’ll always have Okinawa.”

Basically, if you were one of the poor, benighted folks of the world and busy choosing between starvation and being shot, 1984 was a very good year. You all remember the massive Live Aid promotion with “Do they know it’s Christmas” coming out in 1984 raising a whole raft of cash for Ethiopian famine relief. Unfortunately, in the intervening 22 years, the marketing viability for dying brown people has plummeted…

Thanks for the offer, really.  But I wouldn’t know what to do with all the stars.  The basement is already half-full of my crap as it is. Answer is ghosted here ->“If I could turn back time,” Cher Note: as I said the first time, this is music lip-synched by drag-queens, not written or recorded by them.

I know I said before that I wasn’t going to engage any trolls, since I have long since realized that it’s a waste of time.  However, a recent troll appearance got me riled up just enough to respond.  Some guy who calls himself paul k dropped an enormous screed in the comments to this post by sherlock.  Before I continue, if I impaired anyones ability to directly address this guy,

to Global Warming Skeptics: In his valedictory speech to the annual meeting, the UN secretary-general painted a sombre tableau about the effects of climate change, especially on impoverished countries that were least to blame for it. And he lacerated the fast-shrinking minority of politicians or scientists who still denied there was any threat as “out of step, out of arguments and out of time.” If the froward scientists failed to

Oh, wait.  It was Harry Reid: Nevada’s senators _ both winning leadership posts in opposite parties _ pledged Wednesday to stay close on issues of mutual interest, but not too close. “He and I just like each other, and I think we set a good example here in the Senate,” Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid said of colleague John Ensign, who was chosen Wednesday by Senate Republicans to head their campaign

French economy posts zero growth in 3Q PARIS, Nov. 15 (UPI)—Most nations that use the euro currency are growing, but French economic growth in the last quarter completely stagnated. Paris Link reported Wednesday the Eurozone’s combined gross domestic product in the third quarter was up 0.5 percent. The increase reflects growth in such countries as Spain, up 0.9 percent, and Germany, up 0.6 percent. France, however, did not grow at

According to People Magazine. Deep thoughts on whether he’ll ever have children: “I think it’s the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It’s not something to be taken lightly. I don’t have that gene that people have to replicate. But everything in my life has changed over time.” Wow.  I can hardly wait for their interview with whoever gets named Sexiest Dead Guy. “To MayBee Baby, XOXOX

Most of the media will tell you it was Sen. Trent Lott, by one vote. TIME magazine has the correct answer, though it missed the point: G.O.P. Senators said they were eager to have Lott back in the leadership, as he’s known as a clever back-room dealer and tactician on the Senate floor, which operates through a bizarre, complicated rules that at times outgoing Majority Leader Bill Frist didn’t seem

That sucking sound you hear is probably Murtha going under in a quagmire of his own excrement, like some mastadon-sized donkey’s last struggling in a tar pit.  That other sound you hear (“Soylent Green is . . . !”) is Abramoff being hauled off to prison, even as he promises to give up the goods on a variety of legislators, among whom are probably 6 to 8 Democratic (happy now?)