You can now vote for your favorite submission in Jay Christensen’s college football-digital billboard competition (previous posts here and here).
With this late submission, University of Texas supporters now have a tough choice between that one and this earlier submission.
Reports on the social affairs surrounding the Cannes Film Festival don’t usually interest me much, but WaPo’s William Booth does a great job of placing the annual Vanity Fair party in perspective:
The annual Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles is now an institution filled to the rafters with Hollywood celebrities, our celebrities, the ones in our tabloids. This Cannes VF gig is different. Here it’s London socialite Jemima Khan, the ex-wife of Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, daughter of Lady Annabel Goldsmith. She’s hot. She’s smart. She’s rich. She’s huge. But we are going to confess this as an innocent abroad: We kinda had to Google her.
Read the entire clever piece.
John Moe provides the fun. My favorite:
5. JOE BIDEN
Pro: Technically still running for president.
Con: Dude. Come on.
It’s still five months until the annual Texas-OU Weekend in Dallas, but the Texas-OU rivalry is big news any time of the year. So, this billboard from the Wizard of Odd’s ongoing digital billboard competition will definitely warm the hearts of the Longhorn faithful.
Update: Watch out, Longhorn fans. Phil Miller is already leading the counteroffensive.
A nice couple with a couple of adopted young chidren also enjoys adopting rescue dogs รณ those dogs that are ignored, abandoned, malnourished, and mistreated. After two of the family dogs passed away, the couple decides its time for a family outing to the local SPCA to adopt a new dog for the family. The couple picks out a lovable St. Bernard, but the SPCA representatives balk at approving the couple’s request to adopt the dog. Interesting interaction results, but the bottom line is that the couple has “been declared fit to adopt two baby girls, but unfit to adopt a dog.” Read the entire incredible story.
27 year-old PGA Tour golfer Sergio Garcia is the subject of this Golf World photoshoot and interview, in which he passes along that one of his best friends on the PGA Tour is the 26 year-old Englishman, Luke Donald.
Last year, when Donald passed Garcia in the World Golf Rankings for the first time, Garcia describes the text message that he received from Donald:
“Hi, No. 9. This is No. 8.”
As if the image of controversial fight promoter Don King having an audience with Pope Benedict XVI isn’t strange enough, things almost got completely out of hand when the New York Post ran a short report about King’s upcoming meeting with the Pope:
When Ana Carril-Grumberg read on [New York Post column] Page Six yesterday that boxing promoter Don King is scheduled to meet Pope Benedict XVI next week, she called us to say that King’s son, Eric, owes her $5,250 in child support for their daughter Nathalie, 16. “I want the pope to intervene,” Carril-Grumberg said. From Paris, King responded, “I didn’t sleep with her. My son may be a naughty boy, but he’s a grown man.” King characterized Carril-Grumberg as a gold-digger: “She thought she was striking gold, oil actually, because it’s black,” laughed King. But getting serious, he said, “I’ll ask my son when I get back. If he’s got obligations, I’ll tell him to take care of them.”
According to this Bloomberg article, it’s alive and well in Switzerland:
Switzerland entered a treaty with the European Union to import workers, seeking more bankers, managers and academics.
What it got was an influx of prostitutes.
The number of people offering sex for money has risen by a third in Zurich and 80 percent in Geneva since Switzerland opened its borders to workers from the 15 EU-member states at the start of 2004, police estimate. Some lawmakers predict prostitution will grow even more after the government last year removed work restrictions for residents from 10 newer EU countries as well.
Two observations from earlier in the week resonated with me.
First, in this post, Jane Galt made the following pithy observation about the fallacy of reliance on governmental regulation:
“The post below also applies to behavioural economics, which the left seems to believe is a magical proof of the benevolence of government intervention, because after all, people are stupid, so they need the government to protect them from themselves. My take is a little subtler than that:
1) People are often stupid
2) Bureaucrats are the same stupid people, with bad incentives.”
Then, during his monologue on Tuesday night’s Tonight Show, Jay Leno observed the following about the cable television news networks’ fascination (obsession?) with certain recent news events:
“Well, the big story in the news is that Britney Spears shaved her head. Can you believe this? Legitimate news organizations are actually breaking into their Anna Nicole Smith coverage to tell you this.”