ado

much more than one would believe possible about New York Times Magazine profile of M.I.A.

al Qaeda

number three figure in is killed, which seems to happen quite often, does it not?

AT&T

customer who sent complaining emails to CEO of is warned by that further such correspondence will result in legal action by

Barbour, Mississippi Governor Haley

assessment by that the media is making much too big a deal about the BP oil spill

concession by that BP oil spill could be lethal (“if a small animal got coated with enough of it, it could smother it”) is immediately put into perspective by (“But if you got enough toothpaste on you, you couldn’t breathe”)

Beresford-Redman, Bruce

friends of receive email from asking that they write character reference letters for in an effort to avoid the extradition of to Mexico for the murder of wife of – you know, maybe something like, “Please excuse my friend Bruce from having to go to jail for killing his wife.  He has a lot of insurance money to spend and would not find the kinds of things likely to be for sale in a Mexican prison purchase-worthy”

Bird, Derrick

landlady of Whitehaven, UK pub frequented by refers to as a “normal bloke” following the shooting to death of 12 people by and the subsequent suicide of

Blair, city councilman Steve

campaign by to lighten the skin tones of the faces of kids on a mural at a Prescott, Arizona elementary school – “To depict the biggest picture on the building as a black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?” – leads to loss of radio show by, though not yet to loss of council seat

Boehner, House Minority Leader John

apology from Paul McCartney – for insulting George W. Bush by telling President Obama how happy he is that America once again has “a president who knows what a library is” – is huffily demanded by

BP

former spokeswoman for one of the consistently least popular public figures in the history of polling – yep, Dick Cheney – is hired by to handle the PR disaster that has befallen

preference of officials of for the non-publication of photos of dead animals killed by oil of

Bush, George W.

authorization of torture is glibly boasted about by (“Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.  I’d do it again to save lives”), though how provoking Mohammed to give false information and establishing a pro-torture policy that can only result in similar treatment of U.S. troops has anything to do with saving lives goes predictably unexplained by