Cattle Fine

Kenya seems to want to fine Hillary Clinton over the photo of Barack Obama wearing traditional garments which was distribute a week or so ago on the internet.

She would need to pay up in Cattle, or Camels, or Sheep, I think. I'm not a lawyer. Nor am I Kenyan.

Do They Have To Be Kenyan Cows?

This Building Is Awesome, In A Worst-Building-Ever Sort Of Way

It takes a truly twisted totalitarian outcast like North Korea to really do something like this.

"In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished."

"Construction on the Hotel of Doom stopped in 1992."

"[T]he Ryugyong Hotel -- the 22nd largest skyscraper in the world -- is a failure on an enormous scale...."

Above snippets from the Eva Hagberg article in Esquire Magazine Online January 2008.