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...impossible to say whether SNL drove the drop in Palin's public approval or simply followed it--whether it was the chicken or the egg-throwing. After all, Real Palin really sat down with Real Couric and gave a Really Bad Interview. That still counts for something, right...
...pleasure from making music, no matter its form or focus. A comparison comes to mind, one that is both spot-on and completely unrelated: the menu at Shopsin’s in Lower Manhattan. Five days a week, the tiny restaurant offers almost 1,000 menu items, including Senegalese chicken, “blisters on my sisters,” and ebelskivers. While owner/chef Kenny Shopsin is all but the next member of Megapuss, the two entities are connected in that they make things (food, music) that are playfully strange and absurdist but still manage to be thoroughly enjoyable. More...
What's unfolding now is a game of high-stakes chicken. In response to Palin's TransCanada plan, BP and ConocoPhillips started plans to build their own pipeline into Canada--and nobody thinks there will be two pipes. Palin's critics say that the gas team's inability to find a way to include the producers from the start could delay the project indefinitely...
...we’re dealing. They’re totally broke, living and working in the most tumultuous and inhospitable environment imaginable. Their life has been effectively lawless for years. This is a world in which, recently, every day in business may be your last, where mismatched games of chicken are played with major international powers. In these unstable times, better that we avoid a tangle with these nothing-to-lose daredevils and give them what they want—if only to save our own souls...
Blogger Beverly Biehl, an interior decorator, mother and wife, noted, however, that there is some real concern mingling with the outrage. On the Dallas Morning News site this week, she wrote: "The news lately appears to be written by Chicken Little. 'The Sky is Falling! The Dow is Falling! Our Profits are Falling!' It's enough to make you swear off poultry. However, few things can prepare you for the day when your children ask about the headline 'Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression...