Posted on 04/14/2005 2:39:29 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
U.S. President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld can now also be called bushi, cheneyi and rumsfeldi, or simply slime-mould beetles.
Two former Cornell University entomologists named three species in the genus Agathidium after the U.S. leaders, Cornell announced on Wednesday.
Quentin Wheeler and Kelly Miller christened 65 new species of slime-mold beetles, named for the fungi-like molds on which they feed, which they discovered after collecting thousands of specimens for a study of their evolution and classification.
Wheeler, who after 24 years as a professor of entomology and plant biology at Cornell is now the keeper and head of entomology at the Natural History Museum in London, said the U.S. leaders were being honored for having "the courage of their convictions."
The bushi beetle is found in southern Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia; the rumsfeldi is from Oaxaca and Hidalgo in Mexico, and the cheneyi is known from Chiapas, Mexico, Wheeler said.
Good grief.
Now Michael Isikoff has "uncovered" an incident where
John Bolton actually "slammed down the phone" after being
informed of some bad news. Horrors! And who's making the charges? "A respected career foreign-service officer who served as President Bill Clinton's ambassador to the Philippines, Hubbard was nominated by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to Seoul in 2001 and served there until last year."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7577473/site/newsweek/
Check of this clip of Reich on the Daily Show...
http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.jhtml?reposid=/multimedia/tds/celeb/celeb_8153.html
Bob thinks it's the word liberal that is the problem, not the liberal's ideas.
LOL! Poifect!
I've just read the latest story about little Jessica and that bastard Couey. I can't stop crying. No punishment could be too horrible for him...beginning with castration---public castration. Use him as an example to give all the others something to ponder before they even think about touching another little child.
Okay. We'll do it your way.
Public castration and then decapitation.
With a huge billboard saying "Touch a child...you're next".
Is Jane having her bra stuffed with Kleenex? How very junior high!
Jane got an unexpected tobacco contriubtion to her wardobe from a person in line at her book tour. (via expectoration)
Oh yes, I did hear about that incident. My bad.
"Garners obviously come to grips with the fact that's she's 33, appears to be at the height of her Hollywood powers, has likely peaked, and is now willing to take the career hit that Affleck bethrothal will surely bring. Props to Ben for going the 'you don't want the 6 carats baby, that's the tacky J-Lo route,' even though both halves of Bennifer Deuce know this isn't exactly his Armageddon heyday."
Idol Chatter
Paula Abdul better put a lock on her medicine cabinet: Primetime Live is working on a potentially explosive expose on American Idol to air during May sweeps, per Variety. The piece, which has been in the works for several months, will reportedly take a hard look at the relationship between Idol judges and contestants, not to mention the results of Abdul's recent CAT scan. Speaking of which, the 42-year-old train wreck tells People magazine that her erratic, loopy behavior on Idol is not drug-induced. She claims she's just happy to have recently conquered a rare neurological disorder that for years has caused severe, debilitating pain. "Drugs? I'm not addicted to pills of any kind," she tells the mag. "I'm dancing for joy at the fact that not even a year ago I was in so much pain I could barely get up." OK, but that still doesn't explain the seal clapping! (Michael Ausiello - TV Guide Online)
Not sure about those bikini briefs!
HLL: good news for our psycho sex-obsessed stalker, a/k/a Sp_z. Some rabbis have decided Viagra is kosher for Passover:
Israeli rabbis have risen to the occasion and determined the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra — and pay attention, I'm not joking — can be taken on Pessach. Listen, it's always been a joyous holiday, so now it's an even more joyous holiday. They found a way around the problem of its coating being made with leaven... (Cindy Adams)
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