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Joan Crawford to James Cameron: "Even I Signed Autographs" (Video)

I know we buy petroleum from a terrorist nation or two, but must Americans give this guy our dollar?

Read the story here.http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/25/james-cameron-in-major-a-hole-dispute/

Corrected: TIME's Person of the Year

Parody image of Lloyd Blankfein

Brokeback Mountain Reclaims the American West

In July, at the Museum of the American West, The Autry National Center (The Autry) installed the iconic intertwined shirts from Brokeback Mountain (BBM). The shirts are center-stage beside the costumes of John Wayne, Kate Hepburn, Steve McQueen, and Clint Eastwood. It's an easy fit -- great goes with great, but if clothes could talk, their arrival was the biggest "guess who's coming to dinner" moment in Los Angeles schmatta history.

The Autry was never naïve to the role of LGBT people in the early frontier, but 'the love that dare not speak its name' remained virtually mute in the American West. Apart from the stereotypical cowboy with his cowhand silhouetted alone on the long trail, heretofore-rural America wasn't the geography for such talk. With the shirts holding fast on their walls, The Autry has opened up a line of progressive, informative, bigot-fumigatin' dialogue.

China Swaps US Debt for Equity: All Problems Solved!

(Reuterz, Washington D.C. )

Goldman Sachs has announced that its Treasury Dept. has completed a debt for equity swap with the People's Republic of China, effectively solving most of America's problems.

Terms of the deal give China all U.S. States, territories and possessions west of the Mississippi River -- plus Michigan -- in exchange for cancellation of the trillions of Treasury debt they currently hold.

"This solves nearly all of our problems," said a joyful President Obama. "It eliminates our foreign debt and our trade deficit; We will now only owe ourselves and sell to ourselves!"

A White House spokesperson noted that "future threats of military attack by North Korea or China have also disappeared." He continued, "Now that the U.S. is part of China, the North Koreans wouldn't dare launch any missiles, and for China to attack itself would just be silly."

Congressional leadership had initially opposed the surrender of half the country until it was pointed out they were now free to run up the national debt again and "Spend, spend, spend!"

For its role in the arrangement, Goldman Sachs compensation is estimated to be Florida.