Linner Links for Monday, August 27
August 27th, 2007 by Joel Rozen in Breakfast Links, Current Affairs, Dictator Pets, News, TelevisionAnd we have ourselves a winner! (Uh, such as, the Iraq and the Asian countries…)
+Miss Teen USA, anyone?  Anyone? [Media Life]
+Gonzales resigns; another one bites the dust. ”Donald Rumsfeld, an architect of the Iraq war, resigned as defense secretary one day after the November elections. Paul Wolfowitz agreed to step down in May as president of the World Bank after an ethics inquiry. And top Bush adviser Karl Rove earlier this month announced he was stepping down.” Just one left to go before we break open the champagne. [npr]
+Daily “which is more disturbing?”: 1) That this heartwarming H-T story made it into the top three “Most Popular” online videos, or 2) that I, a priori cat woman that I am, helped put it up there? [H-T]
+You couldn’t wait for some Simpsons.  I can’t wait to get me some Stephen McTowelie cyber-extras. [Hollywood Reporter]
+Whatwatwat?! Real estate economists predict the first drop in the median cost of U.S. homes since the ’50s. Michael Saunders, we think you’ve got ’splainin to do… [NY Times]
+Former Weekly World News “reporter” Stan Sinberg’s elegy on the now-defunct tabloid.  This shit’s so quotable, I can’t resist giving you a whole paragraph:
For three years, under various pseudonyms (including Jake Anderson — a play on Jack Anderson, the great muckraker of my youth), I “reported” that the real reason for global warming was that teenage space aliens were stealing our glaciers for party ice, that the judicial system was in chaos because a thief stole “the book” that judges throw at them, that leftovers from the Last Supper were found in a man’s fridge, and that a man who killed a fly was arrested for “pesticide” (the police chief chided, “That’s why we have a SWAT team”). And several hundred more “scoops.” [salon]
+Kind of old news at this point, but I know I speak for at least two people in this office when I say that M.I.A.’s new album Kala is galangalanga-good! (Wish I could say the same for Christgau’s writing style, but hey, maybe someone will understand this review.) [Rolling Stone]
+[Insert link to totally tired, ubiquitous Hogan kid story here.]
August 27th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I’d say two remain before the champagne is popped. Who’s your one?
August 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Oh, god, a good many more than two remain; I was just joking about наш президент, конечно.