There Is A Lot Going On In The World

There is a presidential campaign going on.

There is global warming.

Obama is in Iraq.

McCain is possibly naming his Veep this week.

Angelina Jolie left the hospital with her twins, Rhubarb and Myopia or whatever their fucking names are.

Warren jeffs was charged with sexual abuse.

Jeffrey Lyons and ben Mankiewicz are replacing Ebert and Roeper (not quite the same ring to it, huh?)

The Beijing (I prefer to say Peking since you don't order beijing duck at a restaurant) Olympics are soon going to be underway with protests along the way and the Dalai lama trying to lead the opening ceremonies with a "Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga".

and all I have to say is.....


FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT NEW YORK METS.

An Iconography of Contagion

I was reading this week's Newsweek.

There was an article about the National Academy of Science's latest exhibition called "An Iconography of Contagion"

I wish I lived in Washington DC - there are some excellent medicine public service announcements/advertisements from the 1940s.

Here is my favorite. She looks like Angelina Jolie, don't you think?