Once again, factory inventories of cowbells are low, suggesting a steady demand.

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More bad PR:

Bloomberg again reminded residents that the strike is illegal under state law. Toussaint countered that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had broken the law by including pensions in negotiations.

He said he was doing what it takes to protect his more than 33,000 members.

“Had Rosa Parks answered the call of the law instead of the higher call of justice, many of us who are now driving the bus would still be in the back of the bus,” he said.

Criticized for suggesting his cause was the same as Rosa Parks, he then backpedaled and said that he had mispoken. "I meant Jesus," he said. "That's why we're doing this at Christmas, you know."

Meanwhile... The Rosa Parks Brigade is destroying New York retail businesses during the crucial Christmas season.

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Not very diplomatic, Kofi:

His frustration showed when a British journalist, James Bone of the London Times, began questioning him about reports that Annan's son, Kojo, imported a Mercedes-Benz car into Ghana using his father's diplomatic status to avoid taxes.

Annan interrupted the reporter when Bone said, "Your own version of events don't really make sense."

"I think you're being very cheeky," Annan said. "Listen James Bone, you've been behaving like an overgrown schoolboy in this room for many, many months and years.

"You are an embarrassment to your colleagues and to your profession. Please stop misbehaving and please let's move on to a serious subject," Annan added.

The president of the U.N. Correspondents Association said that Bone had a right to ask a question. Annan said he agreed with that "but I think we also have to understand that we have to treat each other with respect."

The Volcker commission faulted Annan for bad management of the oil-for-food program but cleared him of personal wrongdoing, including influencing a contract that went to a company that employed his son.

Asked again if he bought a Mercedes tax-free for his son, Annan said, "I know you are all obsessed about the car. If you want to know more about it, please direct the questions to his lawyer or to him."

It seems this reporter is the one person on earth Kofi Annan is willing to take stern measures against.

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The Twelve Days of Christmas continues at Six Meat Buffet.

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From the director/co-writer of Anchorman, over at the Huffington Post:

Does Dick Cheney know he's evil? I mean it. Does he occasionally look up from his breakfast of one hard boiled egg and a plate of heart pills and say to himself, "Man, I'm an evil fuck”?

When you're Dick Cheney, you don't have to say it, man.

You just let your gargantuan boxer-boa do all the talking for you.

Fun Fact: Dick Cheney's cock is third in line for the Presidency. It would take office if the President and Dick Cheney himself were simultaneously killed.

Technically, the Constitution says the Speaker of the House takes the office next, but Dick Cheney's cock has already had a little word with Denny Hastert, and apparently he's "cool" with the changes.

Thanks to Jack Straw.

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Kaus thinks Frank Rich may be ever-so-slightly in the Upper West Side/Theater District bubble when he burbles...

But I'll rashly predict that the big Hollywood question posed on the front page of The Los Angeles Times after those stunning weekend grosses -- ''Can 'Brokeback Mountain' Move the Heartland?'' -- will be answered with a resounding yes. All the signs of a runaway phenomenon are present, from an instant parody on ''Saturday Night Live'' to the report that a multiplex in Plano, Tex., sold more advance tickets for the so-called ''gay cowboy picture'' than for ''King Kong.''

The "so-called" gay cowboy picture. Like King Kong is the "so-called giant ape movie." Or The Crush was the "so-called movie where you get to see a body-double pose as Alicia Silverstone's jailbait ass and then fast-forward to Cary Elwes belting her across the room."

Why will the movie do well? Well...

The X factor is that the film delivers a story previously untold by A-list Hollywood. It's a story America may be more than ready to hear a year after its president cynically flogged a legally superfluous (and unpassable) constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage for the sole purpose of whipping up the basest hostilities of his electoral base.

Ahhhh... America is so gay-marriage-crazy that, being denied its first, highest passion, it will sublimate its yearnings into... gay cowboy movies.

Question: Is Frank Rich actually mentally retarded?

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One of the prettiest, saddest photos you'll see.

Thanks to Jake.

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...for speaking televised "code words" to tell a woman he wanted to marry her and groom her as his co-host.

In other words, he hyp-mo-tized her.

state judge granted a temporary restraining order to Colleen Nestler, who alleged in a request filed last Thursday that Letterman has forced her to go bankrupt and caused her "mental cruelty" and "sleep deprivation" since May 1994.

Nestler requested that Letterman, who tapes his show in New York, stay at least three yards away and not "think of me, and release me from his mental harassment and hammering."

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Nestler's application for a restraining order was accompanied by a six-page typed letter in which she said Letterman used code words, gestures and "eye expressions" to convey his desires for her.

I'm glad this woman has finally taken a stand. For six long, terrifying years, "Balky" from Perfect Strangers sent me "psycho-o-grams" telling me he would flay the skin from my body and stitch it around animal organs, burned pages from the Bible, and Winterfresh Mentos, all to make a full-sized Ace juju doll/sex zombie.

For some reason, he was also really keen on seeing the full director's cut of Dune with me. And I'm like, Jesus, the short version was tedious enough, you know?

I'm telling you, the guy has a screw loose or somethin'.

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The Islamist parties will crush any secular/progressive movement?

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Given that this was a Bush/Cheney/Halliburton/Diebold production, I have to say I'm a little disappointed.

I know Max Cleland wasn't running in Iraq, but couldn't we have taken away his Senate seat anyway?

That's just good old fashioned Republican fun, that's what that is.

On the plus side, we did manage to "torture" Saddam Hussein a little bit.

I don't know about you, but when I look for a genocidal dictator, I look for someone who can bear a little pain better than, say, Nancy Kerrigan.

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