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Like airplanes and antibiotics, abstract art is one of the defining inventions of the 20th century. But it's hard to say who arrived first at pure abstraction - images with no reference to the visible world - because abstraction is also one of those things, like calculus in the 17th century and photography in the 19th, that germinated in several places at about the same time...
...idea that Letterman is a hypocrite if he jokes about political sexcapades after his own? I'm not sure that flies. Comedians don't joke about sex scandals because they themselves are morally pure. They do it because sex scandals are funny. Letterman's is too, and - maybe as hypocrisy insurance - he's already been skewering himself over...
...then, all the excitement and controversy? Politics, pure and simple. There is an effort afoot by neoconservatives, led by Senator John McCain, to paint the President as flaccid on national security. McCain has been going around for the past few weeks telling all comers - heatedly, at times - that Obama's strategy review is essentially a waste of time, that the President has to, has to, go with the 40,000-troop option in Afghanistan. The Obama Administration, unnecessarily defensive, added fuel to the fire by having National Security Adviser Jim Jones and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates obliquely chastise McChrystal...
...also promised $465 million to Tesla, which has already sold 700 of its pure-electric roadsters at more than $109,000 each to Hollywood stars like Leonardo DiCaprio...
...always thought there should be a change,” said Extension School Professor Robert C. Benfari, who has taught in the Masters in Management Program for 25 years. “It’s an evolving organism; it goes beyond just a pure extension school. It’s more for professional development...