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- Let's start with news we barely care about. Apparently actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin have split up. This news shouldn't be news to anyone but the most ardent of fan club members, except for something the couple included in their press release about the break. They used the term "conscious uncoupling." You know, like in "Things didn't work out between us, so we consciously uncoupled." Oh brother. I'm sorry, but crap like that is what keep my eye sockets lubricated with copious amounts of eye-rolling. When I think of divorce I think of death-wishes and name calling, dishes being thrown and clothes tossed out onto the lawn. You know, normal stuff. But "conscious uncoupling?" Please. However not everyone feels like I do on this subject. Mark Morford weighs in with "How Not to Murder Your Ex."
- Nothing gets our blood boiling more than a good alcohol fueled discussion of the Junior Bush years, and the conversations get the loudest when it gets to the subject of the Iraq debacle, and especially Dick "We Call Him Dick" Cheney. Discussing The Dark Lord calmly is almost an impossibility, because we know, we KNOW, Dick Cheney has never admitted he did anything wrong during his years in the administration, and as a matter of fact he thinks most of things he did were heroic. But lest we forget, there's one other person who took part in all that, who, when you think about it, was even worse. We called him "Rummy." Donald Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense under Cheney, and practically everything he ever uttered about his actions turned out to be wrong. (Lies.) Documentarian Erroll Morris has released a documentary about Rumsfeld entitled "The Unknown Known," after one of Rummy's most famous misspeaks, and it's a doozy. The fact that Rumsfeld sat for this documentary shows how demented this man is. Check out Alternet's "Rumsfeld Documentary Reveals What an Unaccountable Slippery Bastard He Is."
- And since we mentioned Dick Cheney, we can't help but pass this along. Yet another pro-gun Republican politician has taken careful aim and accidentally shot a fellow hunter in the face. Must be something going around with these fellows. Oklahoma Representative Steve Vaughan afterwards said he was sorry, but apparently that's just one of the hazards one has to contend with when one goes hunting with a conservative.
- I was watching The Today Show the other day when I got up to get another cup of coffee. When I got back to my seat what I saw on the TV screen almost made me loose my Wheaties. There was Dubya Bush, being interviewed by his daughter Jenna (who now works for NBC,) and they were standing in a room full of paintings, purportedly painted by Dubya himself. The paintings, grade school level at best, were of world leaders, and even old Dubya himself. He began heh-heh'ing his way through the "interview," and made an alarming statement. "Painting has really opened my mind," he said, and then stood there frozen with his Alfred E. Newman grin waiting for his daughter to give him a little hug, or something. Opened his mind? Holy shit.
- If you have not watched an episode of "Cosmos" on TV's Sunday nights, you have been missing the most fantastic stuff anywhere on the tube. Bad Hat highly recommends it, and be sure to gather the kids around the set with you. That is unless you're a devout radical Christian who believes the Earth is 6000 years old, and mankind used to ride around on the backs of dinosaurs. Then I'm thinking you probably wouldn't like this show so much. You see, it has a lot of "reality" and "science" and yucky stuff like that in it.
- From the Miami Herald: " CIA officers subjected some terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks to interrogation methods that were not approved by either the Justice Department or their own headquarters, and illegally detained 26 of its 119 captives in CIA custody, the Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded in its still-secret report, McClatchy has learned." Uh oh.
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