Archive for November, 2010

Memeorandum

• Vogue Legend Andre Leon Talley Dead at 73 (TMZ.com)
  TMZ.com: Vogue Legend Andre Leon Talley Dead at 73  —  VOGUE ANDRE LEON TALLEY DEAD AT 73 … Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley has died at 73 ... TMZ has learned.  —  A source with direct knowledge tells us Vogue's former creative director and one-time editor-at-large passed away Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains, NY.
• Man's agonizing penis pain is found to be rare side effect of COVID (Vanessa Chalmers/New York Post)
  Vanessa Chalmers / New York Post: Man's agonizing penis pain is found to be rare side effect of COVID  —  A man's agonizing penis pain was blamed on COVID infection, as docs warned of the rare side effect.  —  Writing in a medical journal, the Iranian team described how the virus led to blood clotting in the poor man's shaft.
• New Evidence Shows Trump 'Personally Implicated' In Potential Fraud, Including Lying About the Size of His Manhattan Apartment (Hunter Walker/Rolling Stone)
  Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone: New Evidence Shows Trump ‘Personally Implicated’ In Potential Fraud, Including Lying About the Size of His Manhattan Apartment  —  New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion to compel testimony from the former president and his children that included a series of bombshell allegations
• N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business (New York Times)
  New York Times: N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business  —  The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation into whether the company misrepresented the value of its assets, but her office did not file a lawsuit.
• Attorney General James Takes Action to Force Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to Comply with Ongoing Investigation Into Trump Organization's Financial Dealings (NY State Attorney General)
  NY State Attorney General: Attorney General James Takes Action to Force Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to Comply with Ongoing Investigation Into Trump Organization's Financial Dealings  —  Motion to Compel Filed After Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr.,  —  and Ivanka Trump Refuse to Provide Sworn Testimony
• Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote (Doug Jones)
  Doug Jones: Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote  —  By Senators Tom Daschle (SD), Kent Conrad (ND), Byron Dorgan (ND), Bob Graham (FL), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Doug Jones (AL), Mary Landrieu (LA), Blanche Lincoln (AR), Mark Pryor (AR), Mark Udall (CO), and Mark Begich (AK).
• As Democrats lurch to defeat on voting, it's up to Biden to get his party off the ropes (Jill Lawrence/USA Today)
  Jill Lawrence / USA Today: As Democrats lurch to defeat on voting, it's up to Biden to get his party off the ropes  —  At least Democrats are reality based.  Trump, his devotees and way too much of the Republican Party are from Area 51 or some other planet entirely.  —  America's political choices these days are not particularly appetizing. […]
• Israel police uses NSO's Pegasus to spy on citizens (Tomer Ganon/CTech)
  Tomer Ganon / CTech: Israel police uses NSO's Pegasus to spy on citizens  —  Mayors, leaders of political protests against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former governmental employees, were among those tracked by police without a search or bugging warrant authorizing the surveillance
• Why Trump and DeSantis Are Talking About Australia (New York Times)
  New York Times: Why Trump and DeSantis Are Talking About Australia  —  For conservatives, the country has become a symbol of coronavirus “tyranny.”  —  For those who haven't been following the conversation on the right about Australia, Donald Trump's recent entry into the chat might have been a little baffling.
• Biden Year One Approval Ratings Subpar, Extremely Polarized (Jeffrey M. Jones/Gallup)
  Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup: Biden Year One Approval Ratings Subpar, Extremely Polarized  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — During his first year in office, an average of 48.9% of Americans approved of the job President Joe Biden was doing.  Biden's job approval ratings started relatively strong at 57%, but by September had plunged to 43%.