Oscars, bombs, bottoms, and more
By EDITORIAL | March 1, 2006
4
Average number of years by which Oscar winners outlive their nominee counterparts.
“We plan to provide a small historical contribution so as not to forget what generated the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.”
From Italian toy maker Brumm’s web site, on why it’s making toy replicas of “little boy” and “fat man,” the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
4
Number of years of house arrest to which the Bogota district court sentenced a Colombian man after he slapped a woman’s bottom as he rode past her on his bicycle.
$650,000
Former Enron CEO Ken Lay’s estimated net worth, down from $400 million before the company’s downfall.
“... a half-acre in area and 100 feet high and will store 40,000 gallons of lubricating oil.”
_Alaskan Representative Don Young, describing the Cape Wind substation that will transform wind energy into usable voltage. Taken from a letter to young’s Congressional colleagues urging them to pass an amendment that would kill the wind-farm project.
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Unfinished business, What smell?, Review: Saw VI, More 
- Unfinished business
The sleazy backroom deal engineered by Congressman Don Young and Senator Ted Stevens to kill the proposed 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound would do more than scuttle visionary plans to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm.
- What smell?
It’s always summer to George W. Bush, our lazy, hazy, crazy commander in chief who puts in shorter presidential work weeks than Woodrow Wilson did after he was paralyzed by a stroke.
- Review: Saw VI
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), the self-righteous serial killer of the long-toothed franchise, may have succumbed to cancer a few films back, but he remains very much alive in plot and presence.
- The Devil and Dick Cheney
Dick: e ver since you shoved your fall guy, Scooter, off the political cliff, I simply cannot get in touch with you.
- Review: Obsessed
As a troubled husband and wife, Idris Elba and Beyoncé Knowles don't lack for chemistry and credibility. You can't say as much for the film in which they play these roles.
- Old Mitt of the Mountain
Mitt Romney had a golden opportunity a week ago to do something about his inauthenticity problem, the one that even his most ardent supporters in New Hampshire recognize.
- Thus spoke Imus
What P&J find very offensive reaches beyond the Imus program, into the world of music and multimedia, including TV and other radio shows.
- Stepping in it
You’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie.
- Yin Yang
They wanted to see his cock. But as shit-faced drunk as he was, Jim Morrison had learned his lesson.
- Less
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, Kenneth Lay, Don Young
