January 2011
124 posts
Nasrin the relentless Iranian lawyer
tmills:
Eleanor Roosevelt, December 7th, 1941.
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Gabrielle Giffords was also a member of the team, hence the ceremony. But they sound pretty good.
The lawmakers relied on stellar pitching from Sen. Kirsten Gillebrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.), to build their lead. The press was held scoreless through three by Gillebrand’s baffling sinker. She brushed off opposing team efforts to rattle her with chants of ...
Who looks hot at the State of the Union?
I’m a sucker for Yankee RINOS, and I’m loving Olympia Snowe’s magenta St. John with her signature ponytail/beehive.
“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too...”
– Tim Gunn (via elizabethanne)
This has made its rounds on Tumblr, but I feel it should be reposted here nonetheless. Is Tim Gunn an honorary Serious Lady?
Serious Lady Twofer: Aussie Style
I don’t wonder how the two most powerful people in Australia are Serious Ladies. I just wonder which Serious Lady actress will play Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the movie of her life—Jodie Foster or Tilda Swinton? Because Gena Rowlands is an obvious lock for Governor-General Quentin Bryce…
Why is Dr. Louise Z. Reiss smiling? Because she collected 300,000 baby teeth from St. Louis-area children and demonstrated that above-ground nuclear testing creates harmful fallout and must be stopped. She also had AMAZING skin at the age of 83. Boo-ya!
Grete Lihotzky, architect; most noted for the design of the Frankfurt Kitchen.
It almost looks like Helen Gurley Brown has mastered the art of holding a cocktail glass and a cigarette holder in the same hand while gazing with frank amusement over her shoulder. But after exhaustive and thoroughly scientific attempts to replicate these results, I now believe the glass is actually in her left hand. The boys down at the lab are still working on figuring out exactly what shade...
Fear of heights? No…fierce of Hite.
