Last Tango in Jo'Burg
Friday, September 6, 2002
- TITLE: "Last Tango in Jo'Burg"
 A take on the film, "Last Tango in Paris" which was, as I remember, the first X-rated movie to make it from fraternity house basements to wide theatrical release. It starred Marlon Brando and might have also been the last movie in which he weighed less than 725 lbs.
Click here for the mini-Travelogue on My Appearance on Donahue!
- "... BBC ..." Here's a link to the BBC story on
the embarrassing ending of the Summit in Johannesburg.
- "... keening ..." From Merriam Webster's Unabridged:
Function: verb
Etymology: Irish Gaelic caoinim lament, from Old Irish co nim
1 a : to wail or bewail with a keen <keened like a squaw bereft -- Minnie H. Moody> b : to make a sound suggesting a keen keening of the screech owls -- A.W.Derleth> keening in the aerials rose to a witches' chorus -- T.H.Raddall>
2 : to lament, mourn, or complain loudly
- "... the Senior American Official..." According to the Information Please Almanac:
The Presidential Succession Act of 1947, signed by President Harry Truman, changed the order again to what it is today. The cabinet members are ordered in the line of succession according to the date their offices were established.
Prior to the ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967, there was no provision for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. When a president died in office, the vice president succeeded him, and the vice presidency then remained vacant. The first vice president to take office under the new procedure was Gerald Ford, who was nominated by Nixon on Oct. 12, 1973, and confirmed by Congress the following Dec. 6.
[Here is the order of succession, provided that the person in that position meets the Constitutional requirements for the Presidency]
- The Vice President Richard Cheney
- Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
- President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
- Secretary of State Colin Powell
- Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill
- Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
- Attorney General John Ashcroft
- Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton
- Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman
- Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans
- Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
- Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Melquiades Rafael Martinez
- Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshiro Mineta
- Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham
- Secretary of Education Roderick Paige
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi
- "... Happy New Year ..." Good Yuntiff is the traditional holiday greeting and may
have derived from the Hebrew words yom "day" and tov "good."
The Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown on Friday, Sept 6 this year, celebrates the beginning of the year 5763, and is explained pretty well Here.
World War II Poster
- Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
This is the Colin Powell they refused to see.
(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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