Diane Feinstein (circa 1995), Mayor Bloomberg and Sam Donaldson self-righteously denounce guns. Also, did you know that porn allegedly hurts short-term memory? Find out Stephen Green’s response to this interesting tidbit, plus all the other wacky internet items, on this Week in Blogs episode. H/T PJTV
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BANBURY CROSS
“Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross” went the classic English nursery rhyme. This burlesque bombshell isn’t from the town of Banbury, but she has taken Great Britain by storm, earning such nicknames as the “Bulletproof Blonde,” “The Atomic Blonde” and burlesque’s “Neo-Marilyn.” Besides Monroe, she says “I favour the Blondes, Dors, Van Doren, Mansfield, Betty Grable. I also get a lots of inspiration from Old Spaghetti westerns, Russ Meyer, 30s Horror B Movies too.” The champagne Showgirl is Banbury’s signature explosive striptease, with a spectacular, dazzling white costume that boasts 50,000 hand-placed Swarovski crystals from head to toe, luxurious ostrich boa tail and champagne explosion finale.
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She also sizzles in Heatwave, performed here at London’s Wam Bam Club.
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Her website: http://www.missbanburycross.com/Mis_Banbury_Cross/Home.html
What was it like to live in the waning days of Mao’s China? Ying Ma, author of the memoir Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, which chronicles her girlhood in China’s final days of hardline Communism, says that “for a long time, people were not allowed to have dogs in the city, because that was … a capitalist indulgence.”
Ma’s family lived through the crumbling of Maoism and the rise of economic liberalism, and talked with Reason TV about the dramatic changes that Chinese citizens saw in their everyday lives.
“For the first time, people got to choose where to work. For the first time, they got to choose where to live. For the first time, they actually got to choose what to buy on the market,” says Ma.
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A so-called constitutional scholar asked New York Times readers to “Give Up on the Constitution.” Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Georgetown thinks that the nation is too obsessed with the Constitution, and that we should simply extricate ourselves from this document. The Trifecta weighs in on Seidman’s loony-tune brand of liberal fascism. H/T PJTV
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Time for some more interesting facts to make your head explode! Now you can sound even smarter around your friends with these simple but super fun facts about life!
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If you want to do good for the world, Duke University Prof. Michael Munger has a piece of advice: Listen to the price system. He compares prices to a genie that knows everything in the world and tells you exactly what goods and services humanity needs most. H/T Learn Liberty
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It’s official: Al Gore’s bumbling, laughably low-rated Current TV network will now become an arm of Arab propagandists. Qatari-owned news network Al Jazeera has finalized a deal to buy the American liberal cable channel and transform it into Al Jazeera America. Now that Al Gore has become Al “Jazeera” Gore, how long before MSNBC sells out to the Russians?
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Welcome to Chapter Eleven from Manhunt of Mystery Island, our current Saturday Matinee serial. In this chapter, Lance Reardon is tipped off by a photoelectric signal that someone is attempting to steal his radium detector. Enjoy and return next Saturday for Chapter Twelve: Cauldron of Cremation.
It wasn’t particularly shocking when the Democrats scrubbed all references to God from the party platform this summer. If ever a party stood for amorality and atheism, it’s the modern-day Democrats. But now that the Daughters of the American Revolution are following suit, that’s a sure sign that political correctness is running roughshod over Christianity.
The DAR even removed “America the Beautiful” from the group’s official documents because it mentions God. Henceforth, perhaps the acronym DAR should stand for “Damsels Against Religion.” H/T iOwnTheWorld
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ANNA FUR LAXIS
Burlesque dancer, pin-up girl, knife-thrower and illusionist, Great Britain’s Anna Fur Laxis has performed across the globe, in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. In 2011, she placed first runner-up in both the Milan Burlesque Awards and the Miss Exotic World competition at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. Her claim to fame is her jaw-dropping Laxis of Evil axe-throwing act, a twist on the popular “balloon pop” burlesque routine. Here is the act, filmed at Neil “Nez” Kendlall’s Goldust’s Tales From The Crypt Halloween Ball 2011.
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Originally from Leeds, UK, she’s also celebrated for Viva Bettie, her Bettie Page tribute, which she debuted in 2009 at Chaz Royale’s Valentines Varie-Tease in London.
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Her website: http://www.annafurlaxis.com/
