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Kabul Calling

I got an email from my cousin Mandy yesterday.
She was telling me about landing her dream job. As jobs go, foreign correspondent for CBS is probably fairly sought after.
However Mandy’s dream job happens to be CBS foreign correspondent for ………………Kabul.
However this is right up Mandy’s street. She has reported from Afghanistan before for VOA (Voice [...]

Fly Guy

WASHINGTON (AP) — The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows [...]

We’re All Doomed!

More from the Kansas equivalent of the Rev. I.M. Jolly. Here’s Fred Phelps to tell us why God hates the UK.
“A stinking little Island where sodomy and all manner of sins of the flesh abound” apparently.
Maybe that’s why he was trying to get in!

Burma Shave

As Ken and Smiler both correctly pointed out yesterday, the red sign gif I posted relates to one of the most successful and enduring advertising USA campaigns of the twentieth century.
Thanks to a contributor from Fifties Web for the following:
“Way back in 1925 young Allan Odell pitched this great sales idea to his father, Clinton. [...]

Good Luck Obama (2)

I know that a couple of my correspondents have been a bit cynical about Barack Obama and whether he will bring any real change to the USA and the world.
But he already has.
I watched the news last night and one of the Little Rock Nine Terrence Roberts was interviewed.

Only half a century ago the National [...]

We’ll Miss Him Really.

And to show it ain’t just George….

Bush. What Would YOU Have Thrown?

The Aftermath

Just watched Obama’s victory speech made in front of cheering masses in Chicago. Not surprisingly he quoted from Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He spoke about an old woman of 106 who had voted, and the changes that she had witnessed in the USA during that time. [...]

For Halloween

I posted this on my old Vox blog last year at Halloween. However at that time I had an average of about 25 people a day stopping by instead of over 400 who look in now. This is a fascinating clip from one of the wonderful Bob Dylan Radio Theme Hour shows. Here Bob introduces [...]