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And speaking of hair (see post below), I'd like to see a mano-a-mano between billionaire zealot douchebag Donald Trump's hairstylist and the aesthetic god/goddess who styles Cameroon's First Lady Chantal Biya. That would be EPIC.I was once snuck into the Costume Institute "Goddess" themed dinner party for the dessert/entertainment course. This was easier to do since people were standing, mingling

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Source: terra.com (link below)I was saddened a few days ago to learn about the passing of beauty icon, Mirta de Perales. The Cuban cosmetics guru was admired by all of us when I was a child. Everyone aspired to be a "Chica Mirta' which required straight, bouncy, manageable, shiny hair. Unlike the lucky girl above, being groomed by the Capillary Maestra herself at the Miss Piel Canela Pageant (

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Isabella Blow died four years ago today, of complications following a suicide attempt. It's weird because I was raving about her and how important she was for fashion and art in England and world-wide, telling a friend excitedly about how amazing she was, what a genius. I was wondering if her pivotal role in McQueen's career had been noted in the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty show that opened

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I am obsessed with Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missne's look. And I am clearly not the only one, as even a cursory Google search will prove. Of course, I first came to know her fashion diva style via my Bible, HOLA magazine which has now added her to their roster of international royalty. With her signature turbans topping off a Nefertiti-like visage of indeterminate age, her severe haute

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I am in love with Miriam Gonzalez and her FascinatorAlthough I had planned to boycott the Royal Wedding, since technically I am a Republican (NOT in the United States meaning of the term), I could not resist the fashion spectacle. I found much of the clothing DULL. The hats are always fun but after a while all of those cocked feather/flower combos perilously perched on high

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Here in the US I pay an ungodly amount of money to get a few Spanish TV channels but Telecinco is not one of them. Which may be a good thing, since if I had access to it, I might get sucked into the sick pleasure of watching their Salvame franchise, which takes up a seeming majority of their weekly programming. Run by sinister Italians of the Berlusconi school of "entertainment," the network

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On April 14, 1931 the people of Spain declared the Second Republic.

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I am thinking about the victims, families and survivors of the brutal terrorist attacks in Madrid on March 11, 2004.http://www.elmundo.es/documentos/2004/03/espana/atentados11m/

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Hokusai - The Great WaveCNN graphic indicating tsunami sites

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Gruesome detail of Hilton interior. (and note the sensible black pumps, clearly a Renaissance or Baroque scholar)It's that time again when sufferers of academentia descend on the garish post-mid-century-modern behemoth that is the 53rd Street Hilton like the flock of doomed blackbirds careening to their death in Arkansas. Indeed, among the overheard comments I noted while sashaying past a hallway

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SOURCE: Shawkatt Raghib's twitter feed http://yfrog.com/froggy.php?username=ShawkattRaghib

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Some of the artworld twitterers I follow were recently mentioning a new reality TV show about gallerinas, which sounds absolutely thrilling. But I had been discussing the possibility of another spin-off with a friend suffering from #academentia PTSD: a "Starcurator" contest similar to The Apprentice but way more chic, insiderish, elitist, glamorous, cosmopolitan and well, cooler. Following is our

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Max Beckmann, Departure (1932, Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York)"In the right panel of Departure, Beckmann once said, `You can see yourself trying to find your way in the darkness, lighting the hall and staircase with a miserable lamp, dragging along tied to you, as part of yourself, the corpse of your memories.' (...) Beckmann called the center panel "The Homecoming," and said of it

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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When I see things like this. Also, this is why you never ask a pageant Delegate about politics, here is Miss NE now Miss Universe 2011, pontificating about Wikileaks (go to minute 1:45)I was horrified by Miss NE's jacked up weave. That thing makes Danielle Staub's hair (protagonist of Weavegate on Real Housewives of New Jersey) weave look like Beyonce's. This one is so clearly fake that I gasped

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cArizona Shootings Reactionwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook Yet another great commentary from Jon Stewart, who repeatedly makes more sense than the talking heads on cable news. Obama would benefit from watching this prior to his speech to the nation. But such complexities are

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Source: TIME Magazinehttp://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,745308040001_2041734,00.htmlBest line: "You don't have to be White, you just have to be rich."

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyThis is an interview with Rep. Griffiths (D, Arizona) on MSNBC from March 2010. She discusses violent threats and vandalism against her and others carried out by Tea Party members. She also notes that Sarah Palin had a map on her web-site depicting her and others in gun cross-hairs. She stated that this type of violent

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FROM: JEZEBEL

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I just came back from a visit to Puerto Rico, where, like the lagartijo in my abuela's marquesina, above, I felt caged behind the ubiquitous metal bars (even in gated communities such as this one). Sadly, a close family member is extremely elderly and ill so it may have been the last time I saw her. This obviously brought up the usual dysfunctional extended family dynamics but in the midst of

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Estrella Morente is my favorite singer and I have seen her in concert twice. Here she is today singing to her father who died this week. Incredibly tragic but also extraordinarily beautiful.

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I am not a huge fan of the holidays. Particularly Catholic ones. In fact, due to my upbringing, the latter bring up a mild version of PTSD. Particularly, as I mentioned here before, those in Florida where you run into elderly but aggressively "friendly" Tea Party zealots who greet you at Target or Wal-Mart with a barrage of "MERRY CHRISTMAS" in response to the liberal ecumenical neutral

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Here is his last performance, in honor of Picasso (video EL PAIS):

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The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cSteve Martin Pt. 2www.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogMarch to Keep Fear Alive

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I have been distracted by a severe case of #academentia lately. This doesn't mean that I haven't forgotten my 6 readers, it just means that my inability to drag myself away from my "serious" (ie. money-making) writing has prevented me from having fun chatting here. I have however been collecting my usual bizarre selection of pop cultural artifacts to deconstruct here, so I hope you will be

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Más vídeos en Antena3Last night Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias' ex Vaitiare appeared on my favorite muti-hour gossip chat show Donde estas, corazon? (DEC) to plug her new tell-all book. So I had to put down my HOLA! magazine where I'd been reading excerpts from the not so tell all sexual/spiritual memoir of dictator Francisco Franco's scandal-mongering granddaughter, Carmen, to watch.

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I am headed to Europe for a nerdolicious conference so this refresher on academese is super helpful. Although I am already a model minority junior professor, the situations in this hilarious series of cartoons on the Ph.D. experience still ring true. There is always the hope that I might meet another equally nerdy colleague for some romance --especially since this conference is in a discipline

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Just a couple of days ago I was kvetching with a colleague about how to incorporate aesthetics and philosophy into teaching. He was talking about philosophy of beauty and showing his class Snooki as an example of what one writer would regard as the anti-beauty par excellence, I suggested showing The Situation with the Apollo Belvedere. Once a friend showed Madonna's "Like a Prayer" with Bernini's

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Photo by Beatrice de Gea for The New York TimesI just finished Carol Vogel's "Auction World's Blast of Brash" and I know that I should not get worked up about this because I have better things to do, I should not expect anything more, and I have called her columns the New York "artworld" version of PRAVDA. Hewing to the party line, they often read like summaries of press-releases. The fawning

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El alma nunca piensa sin imagen / The soul never thinks without images by Roberto JacobyThis year's Sao Paulo Biennial has "politics" as its curatorial theme - the "politics of art." Stop. Right. There. Politics as a theme is exactly what should raise a big red flag. More than once, I have reflected on my own bad conscience as a drive-by eyewitness to self-congratulatory so-called artworld

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Pasaran rios de pena y lloraranQue estamos hechos para llorarPa´ no mentirme no digas naPasaran de dos mentiras una verdadQue las palabras me duelen masPa no mentirme no digas naBuscaran el hilo negro para bordarY a las mentiras un cachito de verdadVente al sur, donde quieras si quieres …Entre rincones los callejones se cerrabanSe abren del paso de las calles que mojadasDel rocio de la noche…

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At the end of this month, people born in the US Territory (Colony) will cease to exist -administratively-it may be argued that they already do not exist in the minds of the average fellow US citizen including US politicians. Obama came down to the Island to campaign against Clinton in the Democratic primaries because perversely Puerto Ricans residing on the Island may vote in primaries -but not

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they make cheese on site, including Mozzarella burrata. they import canned goods with darling designs such as these retro labels for tomatoes The new big thing here is that Mario Batali and Lydia Bastianich opened up an Italian cuisine Disneyland/WalMart in the Flatiron and all the foodies plus tourists plus local non cooks but Italianophiles like me are flocking there like it's the

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Obama Releases 500,000 Men From U.S. Strategic Bachelor Reserve

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As soon as I saw this darling ottoman, I was obsessed. I am beginning to amass a collection of gorgeous custom-made (and store bought from the Cote d'Ivoire fabric collection produced a couple of years ago by Zachary's Smile in SoHo and also sold at Anthropologie) Dutch wax print dresses with fabric from various places in Harlem, Africa and The Netherlands. (including an Obama dress with fabric

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I have a running list of museums I'd like to visit. The Liberace Museum, in a mall in Vegas, is high on that list. Today I woke up to the tragic news that the museum is closing 10/17. Why they did not give more advance notice is unclear. But now I am scrambling to figure out if I can go for a weekend. Not kidding. My fantasy had been to do an American Road trip, drive to Graceland and the

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I just came across a note about the fabulous artist Cory Arcangel's latest project, which is a sample of "sorry I haven't posted" blog posts. I had wanted to write one myself then decided silence would speak for itself, why post to say I cannot post. Is that not a contradiction? That's like not answering an email and then sending a one liner saying, oh things have been messy the past few days/

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HOLA is my FAVORITE magazine. Yes, even more than Artforum. Mexican bolero crooner Luis Miguel disappeared for a few months and twitter as well as TV shows were rife with rumors of his demise. Fortunately, he is still with us. Read the full story in HOLA, herehttp://www.hola.com/musica/2010091444732/luis/miguel/disco/1/

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@petitemaoiste I read readers' reports for a thing I sent to a press and it feels like listening to eulogies at your own funeral in a good way.#academentialess than a minute ago via webAnonymous reader reports are fundamental for academentia, the premise of objectivity in peer-reviewed publications validates you as a scholar and is the basis for hiring and tenure. This is trickier than it sounds,

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The second leg of my summer vacation took me to visit a dear friend who no longer lives in the same city as me (one of the perils of academentia is ending up alone in the city where you went to grad school and made close friends) got off to a dramatic start. Summer storms led to a hours-long delay, followed by delight at boarding for the long flight and the announcement of imminent take off.

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My fascination with reality TV dates back to 1998, when I saw the first Gran Hermano (Big Brother) on Spanish television. I have written here before about the ways in which I believe such programming naturalizes the state of being under surveillance. Indeed in some cases, it can glamorize it, or at least bring the promise of wealth and celebrity even at the cost of over-share and humiliation. It

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Like the Duquesa de Alba and many others, during the Summer months I have been traveling and will be going away again soon. I will have loads of hopefully amusing cultural commentary related to my trips in Spain and Italy when I return!!! PHOTO EL PAIShttp://www.elpais.com/fotografia/revista/agosto/duquesa/Alba/elpdiardv/20100809elpepirdv_14/Ies/

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And since we're on a Manolo Escobar thing, I grew up listening to this song, the Sevillana below admonishing the young woman not to don miniskirts to the bullfights was unknown to me until a Spanish friend sent it to me. Since the World Cup allows academentia suffering nerds who regard themselves as enlightened fellow travelers to give free reign to outre nationalist sentiments, I post it here.

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Puerto Ricans were wondering when they would hear from Governor Fortuño after the heinous acts of police brutality that took place at the Capitol. After almost 24 hours, he finally emerged to answer questions. His first public appearance was perfectly appropriate, the opening of a Sam's Club, what could be better for a pro-American, Republican, Neo-Liberalism emulator than that? There and at

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I have been horrified watching TV and seeing reports in print and video on the internet. The pro-statehood party is controlled by people who are akin to the extreme hard-line faction of the GOP. They have instituted disastrous measures on the Island but their recent acts have led to what the head of the Islands Colegio de Abogados called a "constitutional crisis." Why did he say this? For

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More from the revolting socialite Carmen Lomana, who I have written about before (look under her name, or in the HOLA label). After doing Spain's equivalent of Dancing with the Stars (the latter take with a massive grain of salt), she has a new show where the trains people in "proper" etiquette. She compares it to "My Fair Lady." With her classic condescension, she adds that she would never wear

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This was before Mexico lost to Argentina, sadly.

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More fuel for the fire that is my obsession with idiosyncratic baby naming practices:http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/59277

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A Facebook friend and world-renowned human-rights activist posted this on his page, I hope it's OK to re-post.

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La Furia Roja (?!)I am OBSESSED with World Cup 2010, which isn't surprising when you have a soccer playing Spanish father and grow watching futbol and toros. ;-) Although I am still learning the rules, (according to my shrink I also haven't learned The Rules) I have gone to unprecedented lengths to watch even (gasp) going to a bar to watch a sporting event. A plus is the hot players.

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A friend who lives in HK turned me on to this FABULOUS store there called G.O.D. (Gods of Desire) website here:http://www.god.com.hk/index.phpFor those of you that live in NYC it's a bit like Pearl River or Muji but has some better stuff, such as their clothes & accessories. In the latter case, they are like a cheaper Shanghai Tang. Here are some things I COVET.

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An italian friend just shared this gem with me, my favorite childhood show, The Love Boat, was shown in Italy but there, the song was different. Best line: I don't believe it, but I can dream.....

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video released today in Spain features famous actors telling the stories of just a handful of the hundreds of thousands of disappeared under Franco's dictatorship

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Matador Julio Aparicio leaves hospital after being near-fatally gored. Whatever your opinion on the sport of bullfighting (problematically, I grew up with it and actually really love it) this man is elegant. A few days after being on the verge of death after being gruesomely gored by a bull, he walks out of hospital in full on Sevillian pijo attire. The blue blazer, the crisp button down, and the

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This elegant woman claims that she was fired from Shittybank for dressing too provocatively and thus distracting the clients. Note the fabulous Puerto Rican Neutral pumps - snakeskin.Note that they pose her in profile, Venus of Hottentot style, the better to racialize her derriere, or, as our National Icon Iris Chacon would refer to it, her "coolan'"As soon as I saw the pictures, and her creative

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cClusterf#&k to the War House - Korean Peninsula & Middle Eastwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party

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Sometimes I randomly find a story that hits it out of the park in terms of synergy - political, gossip, and HOLA magazine Eurotrash worlds collide. According to Gawker, someone came across an old video from a show called EUROTRASH (you cannot make this stuff up) hosted by an effete Frenchman and co-hosted that evening by Jean-Paul Gaultier (!!!) with guest star Carla Bruni, now Neo-Liberal Slut

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An NPR story (link below) described new smartphone apps that allow you to plot your moods or answer questions about your perception of your mental/emotional states that are shared with psychiatrists. This type of laundry list, flowchart, quasi-mathematical plotting out of moods, perceptions, and emotions dovetails neatly with the approach taken by psychiatrists (and to a lesser extent,

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I threw up in my mouth a little when I saw the report (link below), which has been the talk of Spanish cotilleo chat shows and newspapers, blogs, and twitter. The yellow press and gossip television shows claim that ALLEGEDLY the Baroness' son donated let us say genetic material to make the twins, and according to the lurid reports, also his sisters, possible. I cannot fathom that someone would A.

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I have been relentlessly grim (again) lately, focusing on politics and frankly it is hard to sit around trying to be funny in this blog when all I can think about is the strike at UPR or about people digging up mass graves in Spain and Judge Garzon being removed from his post. But when I saw this news on twitter, it both amused me, and made me look forward to the next time I teach about museum

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28th day of University of Puerto Rico on strike. Tomorrow there will be a general strike. New Yorkers, let's go out and show our solidarity tomorrow, Tuesday: NYC in solidarity with the UPR and general strike of workers in Puerto Rico: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: (PRFAA) 135 West 50 (between 6th and 7th Ave)for more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=

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This fantastic poster is by Lalo AlcarazSee more here http://altoarizona.com/artcampaign.html

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Photo of a mass grave in Malaga, here they found thousands: Arciniega La Opinion de Malaga (2007)Source: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2338/2076360830_e2f10bf9be.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/etecemedios/2076360830/&usg=__5hGG2Ex7EyV88UL3uTuGsX3LHXw=&h=356&w=500&sz=152&hl=en&start=30&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=9chDvgz22UJi0M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=130&prev=/

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Manifestación por la investigación de los crímenes del franquismo from Fernando Menendex on Vimeo.

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Más de 400 barbies se visten de flamencas

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After a tweet broadcasting my despondency this morning (my life is a telenovela), one of my fabulous anonymous twitter friends sent me this video, which made my day.

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I have been suffering from a severe case of academentia. To such an extent that I missed Real Housewives of New York last night due to an evening event. And today, as I saw this video, I could identify with poor Ramona's deer trapped in the headlights expression.

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Please do notice #39, the white cat donning a mouse hat, not even Isabella Blow would have thought of that. Genius!

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HUMPING USB DOGThanks to one of the fabulous twitter people I follow, I found this magical product, the Humping USB Dog.This is how you can order one, too. And you know you want one! http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/japanfan/9c89/Down Boy!Harley and Duke are naughty doggies. They won't eat out of their food bowls; they track mud all over the place; they are constantly burying our pens; and they

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cConservative Libertarianwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Reform

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Thanks to the fabulous JEZEBEL website, I learned about a must-have addition to anyone's political propaganda tchotchke collection, the First Lady doll from Danbury Mint.http://www.danburymint.com/collectibles/prod/Michelle-Obama-Inaugural-Doll_12568.aspx?tag=D1&manuallinktypeid=2&source=WG03&cm_mmc=google-_-collectibles-_-branded-_-michelle+obama+sitelink

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BBC News published an article about the latest work by England's Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, who was inspired by Becks' injury which will keep him from playing in the World Cup. You MUST NOT MISS hearing the Bard herself reading her radical poetic masterpiece as her delivery only adds to the potency of her rhymes. You can read more and watch her read the poem here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/

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I just ordered my set of AbEx stamps from the US Postal Service. We need to support any instance of public support for arts!! When I lived in Spain, I was astounded at the everyday relevance of museums and fine art. Here, we would never see a report on a National Gallery exhibition on the Evening News with Brian WIlliams but in Spain it is routine to see segments about Prado or other museum shows

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SOURCE: EL PAIS see link to article detailing the survey map of known mass graves. According to Amnesty International, the country with the second largest number of mass graves, after the first which is Cambodia, is Spain.http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/1850/fosas/primer/mapa/tragedia/elpepiesp/20100304elpepinac_11/TesThe graphic above, created by EL PAIS, is a provisional map of locations

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I love this twitter melt-down screen, it's so cute and friendly! I wish there was one like this for interpersonal relationships.

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I am mired in the annual spring semester c.f. that includes search committees (not that I should complain since many of us face salary cuts, furloughs, hiring freezes and, alarmingly, the firing of tenured professors - see Chronicle of Higher Ed for the latter), grading, and more. The term "Spring Break" is a perverse misnomer since we all use it to catch up on teaching and administrative work or

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The ONION video below announcing that tragically fascist demagogue Glenn Beck is still alive reminded me of a similar joke on SNL in the 1970s when Chevy Chase would announce that Franco is still not dead. Of course, this could be seen figuratively. As long as perpetrators who worked for his regime are alive, so is Franco. This include Judges that are now persecuting Judge Baltasar Garzon in

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Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

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Miguel Bose was one of my idols when I was a teen-ager. This is a vintage video for his hit song "Amante Bandido." I remember vividly seeing him on Spanish TV performing in a kimono. This was in the early 1980s. Spain was still emerging from the genocidal dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and in the midst of political turmoil and a yearning on the part of many to make up for lost time and undo

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