Iraq’s Sunni minority, who controlled the country before the US invasion, are once again flexing their muscles seeking a greater share of political power. Gunfire has wounded at least two people at a demonstration in Iraq’s Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar. Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq traveled to the region in an attempt to defuse sectarian tensions.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will be king. But who will be queen? Find out in this surreal animated short from Estonia’s Ülo Pikkov. In a parched desert kingdom, a peg-legged flasher and a debonair flute player compete for the attentions of a ravishing beauty, who has a small secret — but little else — to hide. Pikkov, who is an associate professor in the animation department at the Estonian Academy of the Arts, made Bermuda in 1998, collecting prizes at several festivals worldwide.
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The Blue Collar Comedy Tour’s Ron White proclaims: “If your eyes go bad, you can have Lasik surgery and they can give you 20-20 vision at any age. If your hearing starts to fail, they can put a device in your ear that will make you able to hear as good as you could the day you were born. But let me tell you folks, you can’t fix stupid!”
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And from White’s gut-busting “They Call Me Tater Salad” skit, he shares his encounter with the Sears tire guy. Please join us here at LOL next Tuesday for another stroll through the lighter side of life. — The Wickel
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A’DORA DERRIERE
Glad to see you survived the New Year and found your way back here. To kick off 2013 with fanfare, and enough shaking and shimmying to bring down a bull moose, we’re launching a new daily series: The Babes of Burlesque. We’ll go around the world with this series, traveling to 15 different countries to expose you to some of the steamiest, funniest and most flamboyant Neo-Burlesque entertainers on the planet. Each day, through January and February, you can pick up the radiant heat to help you through the long, cold winter.
We compiled our list of 59 Babes of Burlesque after painstaking research — yes, this was truly a rough and grueling assignment. You’ll note that we’ve left out several reigning Burlesque superstars, so our list can’t be described as definitive. Our choices are perhaps quirky, but they got our attention, and we think you’ll enjoy these foxy sirens. Some have great gimmicks. Others have great gams. All of them know how to work the crowd and command a stage.
We’ll present them in alphabetical order, from A to Z, actually A to V, beginning with Australia’s A’Dora Derriere and concluding with Vicky Butterfly from Great Britain. But enough babbling. Let’s get started. Meet A’Dora Derriere, the pride of the Sugar Blue Burlesque troupe from Perth, Australia. We have two clips featuring A’Dora. The first, comic in nature, is her Wild Woman Act.
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And here’s her tribute to Josephine Baker, with a banana dance, presented at the Casino de Paris.
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For more on A’Dora, visit her Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/adoraderriere
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo — which is already famous internationally for publishing cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed — has declared its intention to publish an educational comic book biography of the life of Islam’s founder. The announcement is the latest satirical shot fired in an ongoing international battle over the boundaries of free speech. It’s a battle being fought between Islamic fundamentalists and liberal Western societies.
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Tammy Bruce and Stephen Kruiser take a look at how the media ignored Chicago’s astronomical murder rates and violent gang warfare in 2012, and wonder whether the press is trying to protect President Obama by declining to underscore the street carnage on his own home turf. H/T PJTV
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We’ve all been told that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. Think again. This short video from the American Chemical Society explains how snowflakes form, sprouting long, pointy, distinctive branches that vary in shape and size as each flake rises and falls through layers of warmer or colder air. Contrary to common belief, occasionally two snowflakes are identical, but only in the rarest instances. H/T IMAO
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If gummy worms were as big as pythons, think of all the fun you could have with them. Just don’t tell Mayor Bloomberg you’re packing a lethal dose of sugar! H/T iOwntheWorld
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The 14th Harbin Ice and Snow World has opened in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. The Ice and Snow World covers 750,000 square meters with more than 2,000 ice sculptures, from small delicate creations to enormous palaces. More from JewishNewsOne.
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Ukraine’s phenomenal artist and visual storyteller Kseniya Simonova delivers a New Year’s greeting, written in sand.
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