Recall the description of the cover art Spinal Tap wanted for their Smell the Glove album: We laughed. We chuckled. Now David Thompson points out: You will, therefore, be thrilled to the tips of your nipples by Mr Fabre’s recent curatorial triumph. Sweat is a performance piece by Peter De Cupere, in which five fellow narcissists spend fourteen minutes rolling about and jumping up and down – naked, obviously –
May 2012
May 12, 2012
Democrat Training 101: No matter what a Republican says, “it’s racist.” [Darleen Click]
Ok, we knew this anyway, but now they even have training materials House Democrats received training this week on how to address the issue of race to defend government programs, according to training materials obtained by The Washington Examiner. The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to the House Democratic Caucus and staff indicates that Democrats will seek to portray apparently neutral free-market rhetoric as being charged with racial bias,
May 11, 2012
RIP Carroll Shelby [Darleen Click]
The man was a legend in more ways than one. Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford’s Mustang and Chrysler’s Viper, has died. He was 89. Shelby’s company, Carroll Shelby International, said Friday that Shelby died a day earlier at a Dallas hospital. He had received a heart transplant in 1990 and a kidney transplant
May 11, 2012
Wow, didn’t see that coming! [Darleen Click]
Polygamist family applauds Obama’s evolution on same-sex marriage In the wake of President Obama declaring his support for gay Americans’ right to marry each other, prominent polygamists the Brown family of TLC’s “Sister Wives” – consisting of Kody and his wives Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn – gave their 10 thumbs up to same sex nups. “It is something I have thought about a lot, and I feel very blessed
May 10, 2012
“Wisconsin man loses a dispute over the recall vote with his wife’s SUV”
Turns out some people just really really really want public sector unions to continue bleeding states dry: When Jeffrey Radle of Chippewa Falls discovered that his wife Amanda was heading out Tuesday to vote for an actual Democrat to replace Wisconsin’s embattled Republican governor, he did what most anyone would do in such a domestic political disagreement: He stood in front of her car. Mrs. Radle did what any wife
May 10, 2012
Praetorian WaPo: Romney not better than Jesus [Darleen Click]
… pulls troubling stunt as teen in 1965 … Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new
May 9, 2012
Pop quiz
George Zimmerman? Arrested to avoid charges that police are racists. Asian pedophile gang? Well, compare and contrast. This is all quite predictable, by the way, “conservatives.” In fact, it’s inevitable. But you just keep telling yourselves that you aren’t ceding anything to the left each time they dictate the rules of the game and the language used both to inscribe and enforce those rules. Maybe then, if you play nice,