Um.... silly Russians.

Yesterday’s English language version of Pravda headlines: “Condoleezza Rice's anti-Russian stance based on sexual problems.”

The subhead goes deeper: “The US Secretary of State released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children.”

I scrolled down expecting to see attribution to an unknown letter writer. Instead, it was from an interview with Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who adds:

"She loses her reason because of her late single status. Nature takes it all. Such women are very rough. They are all workaholics, public workaholics.”

Wonkette: [link]

The actual Pravda (English) article: [link] A very strange article.

She loses her reason because of her late single status. Nature takes it all

I wonder if I qualify as "late single."

Of course, I never had one iota of reason to begin with.

Public workaholics? Huh. I'm sorta late single, and I'm a total slacker. In your face, Zhirinovsky!

I wonder if I qualify as "late single."

I was wondering the same thing, so I looked up how old Condi is. She's 51 and we share the same birthday! Um, well, except that she's 13 years older than me. Still wonder where that "late single" stage begins.

Unless Wednesday never ended last night and cunningly has assumed a Thursday skin.

Well, there was no Veronica Mars last night, so this theory has possibilities.

I think I'm definitely late single. Luckily, I have so far shown no signs of denigrating Russians nor going on a shoe-buying spree during a major national disaster.

Poor Russians. Obviously they have no idea that Condi Rice just hates them on principle. She made her name during the Soviet era, and nothing I've seen says she ever came around to liking Russian forms of governance.

Such women are very rough.

Apparently, rough enough to get politicians to whine in newspapers. At least in the US, the press talks about her darth-chic wardrobe and her scary scary eyes, rather than trying to imply she's some kind of lumberjack.

I watched "Goodness Gracious Me," an "Asian sketch show," on BBC America last night. It was pretty funny, but also interesting in a cross-cultural sort of way. No deep observations, just things like, huh, that's not what "Asian" conjures up for Americans, and also wondering about the odds of such a show on a major network here.

Emily, Goodness Gracious Me was really popular when it aired over here. Got high ratings and quite a few tv awards, iirc. The most famous sketch is the 'Going for an English', I think. Did you catch that one in the episode you saw?

I am watching A Week of Dressing Dangerously right now because it has been mentioned here. I like it. I could never do it, but I like it.

Me too, though this week's wasn't quite as good as last week's. I had very mixed feelings about the wedding dress part. I kept thinking "oh, that poor dress", and while I was glad it was making her think (though WTF is up with the waiting one month), but really, that seemed more gimicky/silly than the other outfits. On the other hand, I kind of want that as one of ita's outfits.