Recent pop culture events that hit the headlines or just plain intrigue.

Gotta Love It

And they say Americans are blatant hedonists.
Here it is, in the middle of the desert, nothing less than a manmade ski slope!

Yes indeed, a ski slope in the desert, right above in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

We help build desert ski slopes with every gallon of gas we purchase.

Hillary's Big Bling-Bling

Political scuttlebutt has it that Hillary doesn't sit so well with a majority of the American public. Deeper thinkers than myself can ruminate on why this is. Is a woman judged harsher than a man, is what I'm suggesting here? Or is Hillary really perceived as an angry shrewish nag as the Republicans suggest?

Whatever the case for her recent falling poll numbers, it does seem prudent for Hillary to begin the creation of a newer, and gentler, she.

Best way to begin this process, get closer to her husband. Americans take well to an adoring wife and just recently Hillary and Bill displayed their mutual admiration society during Coretta King's funeral.

Before the funeral, however, Hillary was spotted wearing a huge diamond ring, alleged to be a gift from her husband. I'm not sure sporting such a thing at an event on the lower East Side was all that wise but that's just me.

A three-carat bauble from her adoring husband. A thinly veiled endorsement for "future president" from that same husband during the King funeral. It's political overhaul in front of our lying eyeballs.

Soon enough it will be time to display Hillary as a sweet maternal figure. We ruminate that Chelsea will soon be on the scene, pictured by her mother's side during selected photo-ops.

If the adoring husband/wife doesn't do the deed, the concerned mother figure will convince Americans of Hillary's sweetness.

From the NY Daily News:

The state of Bill and Hillary Clinton's union is apparently strong - at least judging by the mongo diamond that Hillary was sporting on her ring finger yesterday.
Sources say the former President quietly gave the iceberg-sized bling - thought to exceed 3 carats - to his wife months ago, in advance of their 30th wedding anniversary on Oct. 11 last year.

But the sparkling stunner is so big that the former First Lady has been nervous about wearing it and hasn't broken it out of her jewelry box on a regular basis until recently.

The big bauble was on full display yesterday, when the junior senator visited University Settlement, an outreach center on the lower East Side, to talk about cuts to early childhood education proposed by President Bush.

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