Feet Tragically Obscured     

Good news from the watery Philippines, where tragic flooding ends on a happy note.  Renowned shoe fetishist and drag queen ideal Imelda Marcos’s shoe collection at the Marikina Shoe Museum was plucked from the rising waters by quick thinking museum staff.

Now the Marcos family can concentrate on the career of Strongman Scion Bong-Bong Marcos.

A Bridge In The 21st Century 

Excitement builds in Little Rock, where the Wall Street Journal reports federal stimulus money has been allotted to finally fix the old bridge picturesquely decaying by the

Clinton Presidential Library.  Sure some say the Library promised to repair the bridge to secure the site, but that’s water somewhere when it comes to tourism promotion!

Behold A Pale House* 

From ArchiTakes via the Dallas News parkcitiesblog comes exciting Bush Library news: we [may] now have an inkling of what the already storied George W. Bush Presidential Consequences Corral will look like.                                                                   

Or maybe not, but in any event Bush architect Robert Stern brings out the saucy at ArchiTakes:

“Stern has just the right attributes to be his fellow Yale alum’s architect: conservativism’s DNA-inscribed commitment to tradition, and an inability to refuse any commission, no matter how unsavory…Characteristically, his new gothic buildings will substitute false antiquity for the real thing… Stern’s dismissal of what is authentic in favor of make-believe meshes nicely with his past service on the Disney Company’s board of directors…While demolition of an older building to make way for a larger new one is business as usual in New York, Stern’s replacement is distinguished by how much it looks like an escapee from one of the postmodern development ghettos just across the Hudson…Stern has proven quite capable of doing harm without tearing anything down.”

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   Your results may vary.

Tie It With A Bow

Ronald Reagan fans continue to sputter and rage at any comparison between President Barack Obama and the sainted Ron, the latest outrage stoking provided by the Iranian opposition’s street demonstrations.

“Moments in history like this one make me wince and cringe whenever anyone tries to compare Obama with the great Ronald Reagan, who never shied away from calling out brutal dicatatorships for what they were.“

The strenuously masculine and overly vowel-ed Manly Rash compares “weak-kneed pantywaist” Obama with Reagan’s stirring days of 1983 , when President Reagan boldly stated that tyranny is bad.

What else were Freedom’s Fans up to in 1983?

Cost Some Jack?
President Obama has announced himself “saddened” by the death of Gabon’s 42-year dictator, Omar Bongo Ondimba. Sadness perhaps not shared by Gabon’s population, who despite enjoying recent “generally free and fair election” have other troubles: 

“The following human rights problems were reported: limited ability of citizens to change their government; use of excessive force, including torture toward prisoners and detainees; harsh prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; an inefficient judiciary susceptible to government influence; restrictions on the right to privacy; restrictions on freedom of speech, press, association, and movement; harassment of refugees; widespread government corruption; violence and societal discrimination against women, persons with HIV/AIDS, and noncitizen Africans; trafficking in persons, particularly children; and forced labor and child labor.”

Bongo knew from trafficking, importing French prostitutes when not getting “handsie” with Miss Peru.