Nader to Join Bloomberg as Spoiler Candidate? The ex-Green Leader is contemplating another run for the White House. This time he is hoping for minus one percent of the vote.

Sweet Dreams? Bill Clinton cannot stay awake when he is not the center of attention.

UN to Condemn Israel. In other news: sun rises, sky is blue.

Huckabee in Trouble. The Huckster is cutting budget and trimming staff. Why has God forsaken him?

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Mitt Romney: Whiter than the whitest shade of white. 

Worldwide Stock Crash, yet since it is MLK Day, we have been spared. What’s not to love about this holiday?

Hillary Wants to Control the Economy. (Maybe she has read Liberal Fascism?)

Hugo Chavez goes after the Jews. Now will Hollywood stop supporting him?

Palestinians Protest Gaza Shutdown, yet no protests to stop the daily rocket attacks that prompted it.

Obama, Huckabee and God: Blogger asks: is there a difference between the two candidates' religious proclamations?

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Human Rights Activist Murdered in Venezuela, after being branded a traitor on state TV. Will the Hollywood left drop Chavez?

Surprise – Sunni Allies of U.S. are being Targeted

 Update: Daniel Koffler adds:

The University of Sheffield in the UK commissioned a study on coulrophobia:

The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all the 250 patients aged between 4 and 16 they quizzed disliked the use of clowns, with even the older ones finding them scary.

Two questions spring to mind: Have attitudes about clowns changed over the years? And especially if not, how is there still a clowning market? (Via Kerry Howley.)

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I Heart Huckabee, Huckabee Heart Slavery: Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told South Carolina voters that residents of other states have no business judging their retention of the confederate flag, which many American view as a symbol of racism. "[I]f somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole, that's what we'd do," Huckabee said.

$$$: The president is considering a tax rebate of $800 for every American in order to stimulate the economy. All we need to do is borrow $320 billion from China first.

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A Broken Right Wing Adrian Wooldridge (author of The Right Nation) acknowledges the chaos in the GOP and asks who would really want to be their nominee right now? And then he proposes a right-wing third-way with McCain over at the New York Times. Well, maybe Larry Craig and Mark Foley can step into the leadership vacuum and save the Republicans, because anonymous sex at Union Station and flings with ex-pages look a lot better on your resume than being a Republican fundraiser for al Qaeda and the Taliban. The Burden of Governing Indonesia has one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in the world and The Economist summarizes the factors that make it an example of a moderate Islamic state. They Have Laws Against Drunk Driving in Russia?! Diplomatic relations between Russia and Britain are still deteriorating. Violence Continues in Kenya So if a tree falls in the woods (or let’s say intense ethnic rivalry results in the displacement of 200,000 people in Kenya) and American Idol is on TV right after the evening news covers Senator Clinton almost crying, did it really even happen? Good thing Ron Paul and John Edwards are running for President to remind us all that we need to ensure, absolutely, that our foreign policy is in line with our cultural myopia and ignorance. Chasing the (Generic) Dragon The International Herald Tribune reports that European antitrust regulators have raided the offices of some pharmaceutical giants as part of an ongoing investigation into whether those companies are stifling the development and distribution of more inexpensive generic knock-offs of their own branded, boutique pills.

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Huckabee campaigns  by preaching at a church. This will do much to overcome many of the fears that Jewish republicans have of the Huckster…

Hillary’s Speed Demon

The troll-like and irksome Sidney Blumenthal arrested for aggravated DWI. Even he has to drink to be alone with himself…

Who’s the Racist?

In the Democrat battle for the nomination, all of the candidates are trying to out victim each other, drawing praise or ire from the race shock troops of the left. Who is the bigger racist – Hillary or Obama. The voters will decide.

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The Hillary/Obama standoff has become a racial controversy — and one Clinton aide dismisses Obama as voters' "imaginary hip black friend." (Holy shit!)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals opposes feeding meat to a man convicted of cannibalism. (This was almost a post on our Pickled food blog, but we couldn't find a good recipe for Human Florentine.) 

 O.J. Simpson's bail is revoked. Just another slice of life for the retired football player.

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Kerry’s Call He’s with Obama. No props for his former running-mate and no regard for the Clinton election machine. Paglia The lovely and wonderful Camille takes aim at Hillary, American foreign policy, and Robert Plant’s lyrics on “Stairway to Heaven.”

The Death of High Fidelity Rolling Stone covers one of the fundamental (and unfortunately neglected) problems of modern music: it sounds shitty. And I’m not just talking about Fergie. On the topic of the music marketplace, Trent Reznor examines how vulgar and ethically bankrupt the consumers are (and they’re the good guys compared to the scumbags at the RIAA) when it comes to compensating artists. And in yet another broadside against post-colonialist excess, Marc Geelhoad says Edward Said’s music criticism sucks.

The Suicide of Reason Ayaan Hirsi Ali reviews Lee Harris’ The Suicide of Reason. She endorses his diagnosis of Islamic culture, but balks at his pessimism and belief in social Darwinism (that the fierce East will destroy the complacent West). Along the way she tries to contrast the “American Individualism” with Europe’s “Hegelian Statism” and hopes that the Enlightenment will save us. History professor at the University of Glasgow, Colin Kidd, has an interesting, indirect response to some of Ali’s broader ideological goals in the form of an exploration of some of the consequences of the Enlightenment on the development of race relations in the West.

Public Intellectuals and Insularity Russell Jacoby revisits his thesis on the death of the public intellectual because of the research university’s insistence on intra-disciplinary specialization. But these high-profile intellectuals are still at work outside the academy: Stanley Fish on why the humanities won’t save us (but that’s why they’re important); Slavoj Zizek’s latest political fever-dream praises Robespierre, incites a vicious rebuke from Simon Critchley, and may simply be playing around in front of the gaze of others; and Harvey C. Mansfield snipes at economists.

And Just So This Is Clear: I Drink Your Milkshake Is it catchy or preposterous? And can this frantic line from P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood (AKA Moby Dick In Marfa) get the herd to sit through this brilliant flick? 

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China Hates $100 Oil, Too China's feeling the crunch of high petroleum prices. Inflation is at an 11-year high. In response, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will institute price controls on energy.

Guilty of War Crimes in Rwanda? Come to Congo. As Kenya is experiencing a violent explosion of ethnic conflict, there are indications that Hutu/Tutsi relations are deteriorating in Congo. Two major factors: Hutus responsible for the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi fled to Congo in the ‘90s and the presence of an active Tutsi insurgency in Hutu dominated Congo. And, back to Kenya, Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai speaks to Spiegel the violence that still engulfs the country.

Election in Georgia The Economist reports that even though President Mikheil Saakashvili prevailed in this week’s elections, the fact that he only gained 53% of the vote (instead of the “96%” he had in 2004) AND the fact that opposition parties garnered a relatively impressive numbers of votes, make this election to look less corrupt.

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