As pundits pour over Ted Kennedy’s vast record and single out some of the senator’s most notable political accomplishments, his endorsement of then presidential candidate Barack Obama should rank high up on the list. This induction of the black prince into Camelot was a pivotal movement in Obama’s historic campaign and Teddy’s way of royally screwing the Clintons.
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Peruvian police have seen cocaine smuggled many ways, inside live turkeys wasn’t one of them. Narcotic officers seized two birds in a drug sweep and found a total of 10 lbs. sewn inside their chest area. |LivingPeru|
After asking the DOT to stop trying to focus on making bicycling safer and toditch a new shared lane design, Council Member James Oddo insists he’s not against bike lanes and Staten Islanders aren’t a “bunch of Neanderthals who don’t get sustainability.” |NYT|
Thanks to an extraordinarily well-funded reelection campaign, 3 out of 4 New Yorkers have watched Mayor Bloomberg’s TV ads. But spending $37 million to spread his message to the masses is no guarantee they’ll like it: half of respondents to today’s Q poll found Bloomberg’s ads “annoying.” |NYDN|
British pub owners are warning of a beer drinker’s backlash over plans to replace the traditional pint glass with plastic. The British Home Office commissioned the shatter-proof design in hopes of stopping the 1 pint glass in every 1.2 million served that’s actually used as a weapon. |Times Online|
Within hours of Ted Kennedy’s death, cyber vandals quickly got to work and started defacing Mary Jo Kopechne’s Wikipedia page. A slew of revisions were made, most of them distasteful, which forced the website to suspend any further edits for new and unregistered users. Enjoy: Read more »
Microsoft has apologized after being caught digitally deleting a black man from their ads. The deplorable Photoshop job turned him into a white man for their Polish audiences while inexplicably leaving his black hand untouched. |NYDN|
The British Home Office is considering arming officers with taser shotguns, capable of doling out incapacitating electric shocks from nearly 100 feet away. This would offer English and Welsh police the convenience of killing disturbed individuals standing on even higher ledges and taking down non-violent concertgoers without getting close to their naked bits. Naturally, Amnesty International has serious concerns about the use of this terrifying weapon. |The Sun|
Michael Jackson gets the KAWS treatment for Interview magazine, peppering the King of Pop with white gloves and sperm like he’s done, so many times before. |Honeyee|
Plans are in motion to construct the world’s tallest bonfire in Norway. The Norwegian Barents Secretariat hopes the 16-17-story wooden building will be a metaphorical lighthouse for the region, but not the literal beacon it will be if it catches on fire. |Inhabitat|
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