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Marking Up Rothko

October 7, 2012 – 2:12 pm

Today at London’s Tate gallery a tourist vandalized Black on Maroon 1958 by abstract artist Mark Rothko. A witness reported via twitter: “This guy calmly walked up, took out a marker pen and tagged it. Surreal.” The museum reported that the defacer used a brush and black paint to mark up the priceless painting, which […]

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Goodbye London

August 13, 2012 – 8:02 pm

Nearly 10,500 athletes from 204 countries participated in the London Olympics including women athletes from Saudi Arabia. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney exited from a meeting with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street and openly questioned whether the British were ready for The Games. London Mayor Boris Johnson proudly defended the preparations and eighteen […]

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USA USA UTAH

August 5, 2012 – 7:06 am

In the early 1960s Mitt Romney served as the jock strap manager for the Cranbrook Prep ice hockey team and ran cross country as a senior without finishing in the top five to score. In 1966 his studies at Stanford were postponed for the traditional Mormon mission to pagan France. LDS strictures banning drinking and […]

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Boycotting the Olympics

August 2, 2012 – 11:27 pm

No nations attended the 1916 Berlin Olympics due to WWI and WWII canceled the 1940 and 1944 Olympiads. In 1948 the USSR sent no athletes to London, but it wasn’t until the 1956 Olympics that nations boycotted the event to protest political differences with Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon withdrawing after the Suez Canal invasion by […]

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NBC Sucks

July 28, 2012 – 12:42 am

My nephew in Palm Beach had a meltdown about NBC’s failing to provide live coverage for the London Olympic opening ceremonies. Dear, NBC. You’re all a bunch of capitalist pigs, I hope you get swine flu and take all you advertising dollars to your graves while you’re devoid of real emotion and even more of […]

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