President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech Friday that "there are lots of fat people" in Venezuela and advised his supporters to exercise and eat healthy to trim their waistlines.
"I'm not saying fat women, because they never get fat," he' [...]

Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentment likely played a role in Chicago's Olympic bid dying in the first round Friday.
President Obama could not undo in' [...]
Earth gets hit by space rocks all the time, but in the distant past some of them were quite large. The one shown is a crater in Canada, now ringed by a big lake.
Les Paul, musician, inventor and legend, has passed beyond the veil at age 94.
No more commercial flights home for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

For all those think it is unseemly to depict President Obama as "The Joker," ala Heath Ledger, it was only last July that Vanity Fair used this as a cover, depicting our last president.
I don't know who's responsible for this, but it is brilliant.
The Verdict is in from President Obama's health care speech on Wednesday that morphed into an attack on the Cambridge, Mass., police -- and by extension all law enforcement officials. The People are not pleased.Mr [...]
Artistic beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but art is generally better when it reflects the realities of one's universe.