Vanity Fair's editor battles George Bush. Media: Graydon Carter is one of the biggest names in US magazines. Now Vanity Fair's editor is gunning for George Bush. [Guardian Unlimited]

Go go Graydon!!!

Carter has turned his normally innocuous monthly Editor's Letter into a campaign for 'regime change'.

His January 2004 letter will blast Bush's 'wrongheaded' state visit to Britain, ridicule Tony Blair as having a schoolboy's crush on the President and slam 'deceptions' in the run-up to a war in Iraq that is 'out of control'.

In previous columns he has accused Bush of lying over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and shaming the country by allowing members of the Saudi royal family to fly out of the US without questioning two days after the 11 September terrorist attacks. He has slammed healthcare gaps, security, the burgeoning deficit, tax cuts for the rich, the US reputation abroad and corruption.

Love it.

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It's amazing how the U.S. government keeps finding new ways to piss off our friends and neighbors.

It's quite a, um, errrr, uh, talent.

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US spending surges to historic level. Vote on gargantuan bill in Congress caps a year of stunning growth in government. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]

And to think that there are actually people who buy the LIE that Republicans are the party of "small government."

More like small-minded and hard-hearted and patently criminal.

President Bush and the Republican-led Congress are spending money at a rate not seen since World War II - and America's expanding war on terrorism isn't the main reason.

Spending for national security, it is true, has surged due to the military effort in Iraq and stepped-up homeland security. But judging by a bill that Congress is taking up Monday, the lasting fiscal legacy of the Bush administration will also include a historic rise in domestic spending that could affect everything from consumer interest rates to a fiscal landscape that could force epic tax increases in future.

Read his lips- you're all screwed.

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Today was reached at his home in Infamy, where he refused comment.

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This is not the chicken ranch.

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Was that the sound of the shit hitting the fan?

Is there anything that can stop Mugabe from dragging his country down into hell?

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Transvestite potter wins Turner. Grayson Perry is named winner of this year's Turner Prize for contemporary art at a ceremony in London. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

Th photo's caption, a quote from Perry, pretty much says it all.

Perry accepted the award in a dress, as his female alter-ego Claire, thanked his wife and said he was "stunned".

A popular choice among the public, he beat off competition from the favourites, the Chapman brothers.

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Click the photo to make it BiG.

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The power of prophecy. Mike Nichols' HBO production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" brings the most glorious, most thrilling and most painful work of contemporary American theater into the living room. [Salon.com]

For you folks with HBO, be sure to catch this tonight. But wait until you've seen it to read the linked review- its chock full of spoilers.

Better go to the store and get some more kleenex......

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