Sub-par Minds Think Alike -

Sub-par Minds Think Alike - Babs Streisand has bought into Ted Rall's conspiracy theory about the death of Paul Wellstone. It was no accident, says The Star. This, via Andrew Sullivan, who quite aptly entitles his post "Moronic Convergence".

The article goes on to give us a look into the mind of The Star - quoting the NY Post:

The singer, who recently sold her triplex on Central Park West for half of what she originally asked three years ago, gave up looking for another apartment in New York and is sending her furniture out west, where she is building a separate building to house the antique items.

"She's asked five top West Coast designers to bid on a project to incorporate her New York furniture into a farmhouse-like addition on her Malibu estate," said the source.

In a letter to the five candidates bidding for the job, she tells the prospects she won't have time to discuss anything until after the election.

"She then says they better be voting Democratic and goes into a long political missive about reproductive choice, the Supreme Court, the environment and the power of the right wing," adds the source.

Hm. Wonder if they're union contractors? But I digress

Babs' Web site - which hawks everything from soup mugs to golf balls - consists largely of her political statements, with a big section defending her screw-ups.

Which has got to suck up a lot of bandwidth, these days.

Last year, her site urged fans to be more energy-efficient even while she criss-crossed the country on fossil fuel-sucking private jets, roamed the roads in gas-guzzling limos and SUVs, and vacationed on big power boats.

Streisand also urged her fellow Americans to set air conditioners at 78 degrees. One source told Keil that Babs kept the 16 rooms in her unoccupied Central Park West triplex as cold as a meat locker.

And don't forget the time Streisand urged everyone to conserve energy by hanging laundry outside on lines, rather than use electric clothes dryers. But when asked if Streisand herself was using a backyard clothesline, her spokesman said: "She never meant that it necessarily applied to her."

I' m waiting to see how long it takes for some grudge-addled DFLer to post this on the MN Politics mailing list...

Posted by Mitch at November 4, 2002 01:00 PM