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Last night Gingrich separated himself from the field, and not in a good way. His tone deaf suggestion of creating a colony on the moon when unemployment is so high, America’s infrastructure is crumbling, national debt is growing at an unsustainable rate and half of Florida’s mortgages are under foreclosure was just plain looney.

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Time for the annual debate in Hollywood.

I’d rather listen to jazz. Take it away Woody!

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Getting stronger.”

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In last nights debate, Newt let Romney’s calling him an “influence peddler” go unchallenged. Today I challenged myself to draw a very small Newt. Just some dots and dashes illustrate Newt’s transparent, new, front runner, above the fray, presidential persona.

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Back when R&B stood for Rhythm and Blues

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If he didn’t have money, I guarantee the hurdle would be much higher. Let’s face it, no one on the stage, regardless of party, feels your pain. They’re all in the 1%.

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Yesterday Paula Dean admitted on the Today Show that she was diagnosed three years ago with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 can be controlled or prevented with proper diet and exercise, but over those same three years Deen has promoted and profited from unhealthy eating through the broadcasting of her television show and the publishing of three cook books. Why is she admitting it now? Has she seen the light? Will she promote healthy eating? Not on your life y’all. Deen plans to parlay this culture of gluttony into more profits by teaming with a diabetes drug manufacturer to help y’all have your deep fried cake and eat it too.

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Ali turns 70 today.

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The Giants made quick work of the defending super bowl champion, Packers and are on to San Francisco to compete for the NFC championship .

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..and super PAC’s taketh away.

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Europe is waiting to see if Merkel prefers her sacrifice straight up, or the way Mario Monti likes it, with a splash of growth and assistance?

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Mario

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Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and New Hampshire primaries.

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The Come-In-Second-or-Die State

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Mr. Gore?

David Carr is spot on, as always, in his reporting. Today, Mr. Olbermann, his hostility towards authority and his present gig with low budget Current TV.

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Creator of iconic images, Arnold was ahead of her time. read today’s obit

Here’s an interesting excerpt from Eve Arnold’s “In Retrospect” about meeting and photographing Joan Crawford.

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All eyes are on Newt.

Watch the great Steven Colbert

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Well, one word and one acronym. Mitt spent $1.47 million of campaign funds in Iowa and Super Political Action Committees another $4.5 million on negative ads against his nearest rival, Newt Gingrich (who was hoisted by his own petard). That was enough to eke out an eight vote victory over second place finisher Santorum, who spent a mere $21 thousand.

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Iowa

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2012 starts with the Giants winning the NFC East

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…and Iowa Caucus voters set to kick of the presidential election year.

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With the latest news out of Cairo, it seems that Time Magazine had it right, 2011 was the year of the protester.

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Protesters in Bahrain, Egypt, Greece, Libya, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Wall Street and Yemen, dominated the news and changed the political landscape in 2011.

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This past Sunday the New Jersey Giants once again played down to the competition and set up a must win this weekend against the co-tenants of the New Jersey Meadowlands Stadium, the New Jersey Jets.

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Illustrator, writer, editor and co creator of Captain America passed away Wednesday.

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Song of the Day

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This story peaked my interest this morning. I thought that academic philosophy and religious belief were mutually exclusive. At least it seemed that way when I studied Philosophy in college with the great Paul Edwards. But Alvin Plantinga has written a new book called “Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism.” where the unapologetic theist argues against atheism.

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The Borscht is simmering.

Citing discontent, Mr. Kudrin believes there to be wide support for a new political party in Russia and the ousted Finance Minister is ready to contribute to it’s establishment.

Also, majority owner of the New Jersey Nets, Mikhail Prokhorov, announced his bid for president.

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Excellent reporting by NYT journalists, Azam Ahmed, Ben Protess and Susanne Craig, gives readers a glimpse inside MF Global.

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A New Book.

A few years back I read with great interest the posts at Today’s Inspiration highlighting illustrator, Andy Virgil. Mr. Virgil was a fantastic painter but what originally peaked my interest was that he was painting book covers for Silhouette Romance in the twilight of his career. He passed away in 1980 when I was still an art student. Two years later I started my career painting for the same line of books. But back to Mr. Buckley, Mr. Virgil painted … Continue Reading

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Legendary comic book artist, creator of Batman’s archenemy the Joker, passed away on Wednesday.

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Let’s break out the booze and have a ball.

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The characters Mr. Morgan portrayed always seemed to have a sincerity about them. I think that’s the highest compliment I can pay an actor. RIP Harry Morgan.

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Last year Vi Hart and her innovative youtube videos got my attention because she combined two subjects that span the interests of my son Andrew and I – math and doodling. Salman Khan doesn’t seem to share my interest in doodling but he is revolutionizing the teaching of mathematics using youtube.

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and Vi Hart here

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Have a nice weekend

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Not all news is bad.

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