I tend to run through news spots and blogs as they catch my eye, and as is happening more and more often, it is the unusual or offbeat. Like many news junkies (I’m guessing), I have a few favorites I like to visit. For example, for those of you who read "Playboy," the Forum section had an eye catcher — "Iraqi Success Story!" Not one I’d expect from a liberal rag, so I jumped in for the read and discovered it was one of those pretentious little titles that has a follow on subtitle, a sort of colon(oscopy) that let’s one gander a little further into the liberal left... The whole title
"Iraqi Success Story: A Positive Development in the Middle East that the Bush Administration Wants No Part of "
As scintillating as the article was, it is also true I’ve stopped buying Playboy for the articles. On the other hand, The Weekly Standard has a section I really like. It’s called the The Scrapbook, and this week there was a tidbit on Pooh! Years ago, Pooh and Crew was a nightly favorite of my youngest daughter, so this particular tidbit was a bit depressing:
Disney is releasing a new animated Winnie the Pooh series later this year, My Friends Tigger & Pooh, which the columnist James Lileks notes at his website (www.lileks.com/bleats) will "introduce a six-year-old girl in Christopher [Robin]'s stead. I'm sure she's spunky and adventurous and kind and empowered," writes Lileks, "and I'm just as sure my daughter will find her boring, because kids can smell pedantic condescending twaddle nine miles off. . . . Here's the part that makes me truly sad: The little girl wears a bike helmet. Because you could fall down in the 100 Acre Woods and hurt yourself.
"I swear, they're going to put airbags on Barbie's Pegasus next, and require thick corks on the point of all unicorn horns."Wikipedia corrects the notion that the six year old Darby “replaces” Christopher Robin — after all, he does show up periodically. I’m kind of wondering if good old Chris winds up with a bucket on his head.
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