I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic. Everything we had been saying about racial integration was vindicated,” he says, “but he’s incompetent. He will be defeated for re-election. It’s a pity because he’s the first intellectual president we’ve had in many years, but he can’t hack it. He’s not up to it. He’s overwhelmed. And who wouldn’t be? The United States is a madhouse. The country should be put away – and we’re being told to go away. Nothing makes any sense.” The President “wants to be liked by everybody, and he thought all he had to do was talk reason. But remember – the Republican Party is not a political party. It’s a mindset, like Hitler Youth. It’s full of hatred. You’re not going to get them aboard. Don’t even try. The only way to handle them is to terrify them. He’s too delicate for that.

via “The Independent”

According to this, the Obamas have decked the halls of the White House with Rothko, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, bronze sculptures by Degas, the Electric Telegraph patent model (?), etc. The Kennedys preferred Cézanne; the Clintons Kandinsky.

Is that intended to leave the NYT reader to assume that the White House was decorated with fat chef tchotchkes and those paintings with from the mall with the lights for the 8 years prior to Jan. 20?

You may come away from it all feeling confused and exhausted, but for Jimmy Kim that’s the whole point. Of his restaurant’s dining experience, he proclaims: “I WANT THE RUNNING DOGS OF CAPITALISM WHO DINE HERE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE NO HOPE OF FINDING BETTER FOOD ANYWHERE IN MANHATTAN, AND IF THEY TRY, THEY WILL BE SMASHED LIKED ROTTING ONIONS.”

A Taste of Pyongyang

Old wedding date: 3.13.2010. New wedding date: 8.28.2010.

via And I Am Not Lying, via Everything is Terrible.