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What a disaster! For this year’s Kennedy Center Honors reception a the White House, three other women showed up wearing the exact same Oscar de la Renta gown as first lady Laura Bush. For some reason, WCBS in New York is being particularly not nice about this, calling it the first lady’s “faux pas”, and saying “Laura Bush can’t compete.” USA Today points out that, not to make her guests feel more uncomfortable “The first lady, gracious as always, ran upstairs to change.”

The United Nations University has released a report claiming that the richest people in the world have more money and other stuff than everybody else.
There are some interesting numbers in there. According to the report, if you have net assets of more than $2200 then you’re wealthier than half the world. You’ll need $61,000 to be in the top 10% and about half a million to be among the world’s wealthiest one percent. If all the world’s wealth were pooled and distributed equally, we each get a check for about $20,000.
Additionally, you’ll find that the top percent holds 40% of the world’s total wealth, and people in the United States hold about 25% of the world’s assets, making it the wealthiest nation on earth. However, according to the report, due to some irregularity between exchange rates and purchasing power that I don’t understand, Japan may actually be wealthier.
Now that I’ve got you comparing yourself to everybody else, go over to the Global Rich List to see where you fall in the whole scheme of filthy, selfish greed. It should be noted that the Global Rich List is based on income, not wealth, and therefore is not only unrelated to the results of the UN report, but are also pretty much useless in determining how rich you are.
Granted, neither the UNU report nor the Global Rich List takes into account cost of living. There’s no doubt that we here in the US have it a lot better than people in most places in the world. I just hate the use of statistics to lump all the world’s people together financially and then make broad conclusions.
There’s something to chew on, anyway.

Thank you for the sweet tea. I’m lovin’ it.
Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for your chicken biscuit.

Dear Hardees,
Thank you for the thick burger. Can I please get one inside the Beltway?

I felt like I needed Morgan Freeman to narrate my epic journey to the office this morning.

When space shuttle Discovery launches on December 7, it will be carrying three different meals from designed by Rachael Ray. You know you’ve hit the big time when your food is freeze-dried and sent into space. Most notably, these will be the first garnished meals ever prepared for American astronauts. You can watch the video of Rachael in NASA’s test kitchen on her website.

The guitar-shaped bulge in Morgan Conatser’s clothing tipped off Clifton Lovell, owner of Guitars and Cadillacs, that there might be a crime in progress.

Alligator Bites Naked Man on Crack

With Christmas and my birthday coming up, maybe you’re looking for that perfect gift for me.
Well this probably isn’t it, but it will be received with just as much excitement.

I just discovered Peeve Pile, a place where you can post your pet peeves and read other people’s. For example: Regarding the misuse of quotation marks, particularly on signs

Like when there is a sign that says, “Welcome” – but the “Welcome” is actually in quotes on the sign, for no apparent reason. My questions is: are you quoting someone who said, “Welcome”? Or am I not actually welcome? I don’t “understand” what you are trying to “convey” here.