A triumvirate (a la Douglas Adams) of unusual news articles have piqued my interest today:
Bush Booed at Martin Luther King Gravesite via Yahoo! News:
“Bush go home” and “peace not war” the predominantly black crowd of protesters shouted from behind a barrier of buses…
Brain Sandwiches Still on Some Menus via Yahoo!:
“I think I'll have hardening of the arteries before I have mad cow disease,” said Cecelia Coan, 40, picking up a brain sandwich to go at the Hilltop Inn during her lunch hour. “This is better than snail, better than sushi, better than a lot of different delicacies.”
CBS Cries Foul on PETA, MoveOn Super Bowl Ads also via Yahoo!:
“We just want to be able to present our jiggly women,” said Lisa Lange, spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, asking to join advertisers like beer brewers who has boosted sales with images of scantily-clad women.
Sci-Fi Scribes Like Mars Plan from Wired News:
“I'd been afraid that this would be some kind of one-off, Apollo-type stunt. But it's not that at all,” he said. “A long-term, large-scale, open-ended space project—it's like watching a science-fiction movie. It's like the sort of thing I'd always imagined.”
And, countering, Mars Mission a Trojan Horse? from Wired again:
[Space historian Howard] McCurdy noted that the current President Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, similarly proposed going to the moon and Mars in 1989. However, that plan fell apart when NASA came back with a jaw-dropping $400 billion price tag.The current President Bush only signed on to a new moon-Mars plan after assurances from NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe that the agency had returned to being the can-do outfit that sent men to the moon in the 1960s, McCurdy said.
Update: I don't know how many of my friends have been watching The Daily Show this week, but there was some weirdness with Presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun. She went on the show Wednesday night (I don't know exactly when htey tape, but it's afternoon/evening, I'm sure), and did a pretty good job. Also that day, word leaked out that she was planning to drop out of the race. I haven't been able to figure out exactly when she officially quit, but it's really weird that she stayed to tape the show…
Posted by mike at January 16, 2004 12:04 PM | Decision 2004 , Food , Politics , TV | TrackBack