Word: superealism
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Political junkies already have the Obama soundtrack, the Obama commemorative plate and Obama condoms. Now, for those of you who want to relive the excitement of the whirlwind 2008 presidential election campaign, there's Super Obama World...
...free online video game, created by the Madison, Wisc.-based three-person software company Zensoft, is based on the '90s Nintendo classic Super Mario World; Obama must battle his way across a pixilated Alaska, fighting through various snow-covered levels before facing off against Big Boss Sarah Palin (If you were hoping to fight John McCain, there's always candidate kung...
...Susie Essman). Their itinerary will be no secret to the youngest of viewers: cat and dog, joined by Rhino (Disney animator Mark Walton), a hamster who travels in a Plexiglas ball. Through Rhino, a diehard fan of the TV show, Bolt realizes that his powers aren't so super, and he comes to suspect that Penny was just another jaded Hollywood actress who'd forget about him when she left...
...their own achievements. For others, it may be a vindication of their belief that the American Dream was never really more than a myth created to mask structural inequalities in our country. Perhaps the problem is that the “self-made man” has become a Super Myth, an idea so deeply carved into our national identity and cultural consciousness that we refuse to believe that some people will get lucky and some people won’t. The specific purpose of Frederick Douglass’s speech—often glossed over in history books?...
...boomtown housing values, with some analysts expecting up to a 20% decline in the next three years. The combined debt of Dubai's government and public-sector companies has escalated to the point where some analysts say the city-state Dubai might one day need a bailout from its super-rich sister emirate Abu Dhabi, which has more than 8% of the world's petroleum reserves...