"Skincare company Nivea... ad shows a black man in the act of throwing out a full-face mask which has a beard and an afro."

"The image is juxtaposed with the slogan 'Re-Civilize Yourself.'" Of course, people cried "racism," and predicta...

Ron Howard does a really cool pro-Obama thing.

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Who in the McCain campaign got paid $22,800 for 2 weeks of work?

Sarah Palin's makeup artist. That's from the NYT "Caucus" blog, where the first commenter notes the URL: "pains-makeu...

"The best Sarah Palin look-alikes."

Wow. Aw. Unfair. Oh, no! Oh, noooooo! (Why was I not informed of this?) ADDED: Start here to get explanations of who these people are, not...

Do you RNC campaign donors mind having spent $150,000 for Sarah Palin's wardrobe and $4,716.49 for her hair and makeup?

I assume you don't. She suddenly needed to look perfect for numerous high-profile appearances. How could she possibly have paid for all...

Beauty secret: nightingale droppings.

The Telegraph reports: Shizuka cleaned my face with two cleansers - one clay and the other containing green tea, ground pearls, sake and Mou...

The Givhan of HuffPo is pretty sure her Women's Studies professor vomits whenever she sees Sarah Palin.

Karin Tanabe , who seems to be the Givhan of HuffPo -- which is nothing like the Mull of Kintyre -- takes a 2-week old Robin Givhan column ...

"The tattoo community sees them as posers. It’s like going out in the 1960s to buy a Beatles wig."

Said Bob Baxter , the editor of the tattoo journal Skin & Ink, of people who get hand or neck tattoos before they've inked up the re...

"She seems nice. She seems smart. She likes hockey."

Fake Sarah Palin. Getting Kristy Webb ready for the part : 10:45 a.m. - Hairstylist Nathalie Quedru teases Webb's hair in three differen...

Palpatinian tranche.

I've been reading and listening to people talk for over a half century, so it's really weird to have to look up 2 words in 2 hours. ...

Why men shave their heads.

Christina Reihill writes: While the idea of the modern man as a hairless metrosexual more interested in manicures than motors challenges my ...

Finding something looked for.

Enlarge. I'd wanted for a long time to find this picture, which I knew was somewhere in amongst the thousands I've uploaded into Fli...

"This isn't the 'Raid Ant-And-Roach-Killer Present: A Tribute To Vincent Gallo' party?"

"DAMMIT. I AM SO GULLIBLE."

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it’s still gonna stink."

Said Obama , and speaking of stink, it's raised quite a stink . Now, I didn't blog this yesterday, because frankly, I considered it ...

A big crowd in Cedarburg, Wisconsin for McCain and Palin today.

Photo by Gary Porter. Click here for the full size and to see the rest of the slide show. Here 's the story in the Milwaukee Journal-Se...

Now, what's the right way to fix a baby's hair?

Live-blogging night 2 of the Republican Convention.

5:22 Central Time: Just setting up the post. Let's watch! 5:31: Ugh. CNN is still going over and over the hurricane. Would they be makin...

Cindy and Laura at the convention.

I've watched dribs and drabs of the GOP convention tonight, but the coverage is annoying. Gustav turned out to be a routine hurricane co...

Mouth-corner spittle, in HDTV.

Amanda Hess (via Instapundit ) was watching Obama looking nice and "crispy" on HDTV and then, suddenly, there was "a small c...

What people search for when they search for Sarah Palin.

Based on the last few thousand visitors to my blog: Enlarge this image. See current Site Meter page (where you can click on the links and ...