When a potential candidate won’t talk to the news media, inquiring minds turn to Google to dig up everything possible on the political wannabe.
So when University of Michigan Regent Denise Ilitch clammed up about her exploration of a run for governor, what did Bites find? A December article on the Huffington Post blog, which generally covers all things politics, but in Ilitch’s case, talked about the “LBD.”
Would that be short for “Liberal By Day”? “Let’s Be Democrats”?
Nope. It stands for “Little Black Dress,” the suggested staple of every woman’s closet.
Here are some excerpts:
“Whether you wear your LBD with a chic strand of pearls for a timeless sophisticated look or wear it with leather studded cuffs to bring out your inner rebel, one thing is for sure, depending on your mood and the occasion you can transform any Little Black Dress.”
Or this:
“If it’s your bust line you want to emphasize then look for a bustier style or strapless knee length dress, or one that’s not going to distract attention away from your main ‘asset.’ ”
Ilitch’s assets as a possible candidate are still being assessed by Democratic leaders.
Hey, it’s not TSA’s fault
Erroll Southers, President Barack Obama‘s pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration before he withdrew from consideration last week, remains convinced that the failed bombing attempt Dec. 25 above Detroit wasn’t a TSA mistake.
A lot of attention has been paid to how bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was allowed to get on a plane, but his name wasn’t on any of the TSA watch lists.
“I don’t feel that was a TSA failure,” Southers told CNN on Friday. “No one individual could have stopped that.”
Whether Southers’ nomination was a casualty of the incident remains murky. It had already been held up by a Republican senator who thought Southers might want to give TSA workers collective bargaining rights.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you
Longtime readers will remember former Free Press cartoonist Richard Guindon, whose eccentric take on life in Michigan included an obsession with carp.
Now the apparent invasion of Asian carp into Lake Michigan has become political grist, with Attorney General Mike Cox and Gov. Jennifer Granholm warning of ecological apocalypse, and even the White House getting involved. Bites contacted Guindon at his northern Michigan studio for his thoughts on the evil carp. Here’s what he wrote:
“I would advise you not to go near this fish because once you do it will be with you for the rest of your life. I speak from bitter experience. Here’s how it will happen. You’ll wake up one night unable to sleep. You’ll look out the window and there, across the street will be one of them in the shadows, smoking a cigarette and watching your house. You may already be contaminated. I hope you’ve taken the precaution of reading this e-mail in the shower.”
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