their chief executive has them. our chief executive IS one.

Too...many....juvenile jokes...to...be made....must....resist!

(or in my best Bob Hope voice "I guess Angela Merkel has brought out the big guns. Big guns" *golf swing* "ahem.")

but seriously, every once in a while I'm confronted with something that reminds me just how very different Europe is from North America. This would be one of those times.

"The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

boob boob n.

1. an ignorant or foolish person.

Syn: dumbbell, dummy, dope, booby, pinhead.

WordNet 1.5

now if we can only get cleavage between them and us.

Not just a lovely cleavage, Angela Merkel also seems to be one of the most competent and interesting politicians of Europe today.

Nice Rack for a Hun. I approve.

Maybe Chancellor Angela tire of pant suit and want for have come out party for decolletage. Think me this is wunderbar, but, unfortunate, ickmeister who think older woman and sexy breast go together like bratwurst and chocolate sauce come out too. Make very sad me this.

Predict me that next time G8 meet, President George try one more time for give Chancellor Angela massage.

Svutlana

It's hard for me to tell. Most pseudo-news hides itself behind the guise of being news about what other people think is news.

The German chancellor is possessed of a fine rack and knows how to show them off.

In the world today, that takes guts, gumption, and courage. Pulling off the look she did? Takes intelligence, flair and a great sense of self, along with a healthy dose of awareness of not only who you are but what your best physical features are.

If you're a woman with overly large breasts, you will get disdain if you show them off and people will immediately assume your IQ is at least 10 points lower than it is. If you try to smush them up or hide them, you look fatter than you actually ARE and you look dowdy. I've said "screw you" to the people who seem to look upon my fine, upstanding assets as a moral failing and enjoy them.

Bravo to the Chancellor, she's officially one of my fashion heros!

Hill's just aren't, well, hills. If she could only zap the Obamatrons with cleavage power, she'd be free and clear. But she just doesn't have enough, um, well heft as it were.

Loved your post on multiple levels. Although I'm not sure what I prefer more, your word choice or the observation wrt pseudo news. Your blog now has one more sporadic visitor.

Question:

Is this news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_WKxqQF2o

Found that gem via an AP wire at Salon. If the ladies of broadsheet miss the 10+ page vitriol filled letters threads, I think they could do something with that video and the releated fallout.

This has to be some kind of German humor that we're just not getting in translation. How could it be at all noteworthy that a woman in public life wore a low-cut dress to the opera?

Haven't Europeans been seeing things like this for, oh, like about five hundred years?

Well (you say), not so much for those sober-minded Scandinavians. Fine — call it two centuries instead.

I'm relieved to find that at least American society isn't alone in being plagued by idiotic journalism.

wearing pants would have been considered a scandal. If folks didn't realize before that Merkel was female, I feel very sorry for them.

And she does look great, unlike that boob who played dress-up in a flight suit (which seems to have included some extra padding - was that perhaps the same transmitter he wore on his back that one time?).

Germany's Chancellor, a woman? Egad, I say!

And of course you can trust the European yellow press to make like overhorny pre-college teenagers, jump up and down and scream "Boobs! Dude! Boobs! OMG! Boobs!" (Isn't it a truism that they're a lot worse about it over the pond?)

But hey, for the Germans it's one more thing to be proud of. (All we Americans get to show off is our President's codpiece. {shudder})

Are you The Hulk?

she does not act like she has boobs, nor does she act like she does not have boobs.

boobs just do not enter the equation.

do men who aspire to power act like they are proud to have a dick? DO they act like they do not have a dick?

Neither, most men act like a dick is not part of the equation.

This is another reason why people despise Hillary. She acts like she has no boobs, then she acts like boobs give her privileges she should take advantage of. Maybe if American women were not so sex obsessed all the time, incorporating that thinking into their whole existence, they might become leaders others could trust.

for what it's worth, my 75 year old German mom's first reaction was a little OMG, followed very quickly by a "good for her!" followed by a tart comment about the typical American woman's complete lack of appropriate dress for the opera.

Me, I'm happy that her assets are rather common in the Germanic gene pool.... I'd love to borrow that gown in a couple years!

Amazing. Just when I thought the press could stoop no lower, I stumble on this piece.

For sure German words are most fun for say!

Who is Hulk, Mr or Ms Mynamehere? Hopeful mean you hulka burn love and not green man.

Sorry for digress as this space belong for Chancellor Angela and her now famous breasts, G8 leader who actual go for opera and not Phantom of Opera.

Svutlana

If I had the kind of seats for the opera that she no doubt has, I'd dress en decolletege too.

It's completely appropriate, and she looks quite elegant.

So she won't have to make eye-contact with any men who come up to talk to her.

At least the Germans can be confident that their leader has enough class and taste to actually attend an opera every once in a while.

Meanwhile, Merkel looks fantastic, although this issue certainly makes the case that men still view women as objects of their possession... if a woman is young and attractive, men think she ought to flaunt her cleavage for their visual enjoyment, whereas if the woman is over 35, they think she ought to hide them away lest they be offended by her appearance. In either case the decision is not and should not be his to make....