Page Six, (a site that loves to report on Ron Burkle's doings),* is reporting that he will be one of Hillary Clinton's 5 national fund raising Chairs. (And, no, Norman Hsu isn't one of the other 4. He's still in jail, isn't he)?

*Found that out from Forbes' molto fascinating account of Mr. Burkle from 2006 for background. Find that here.

This is London calls the new sarcophagus-like sculpture of Oprah Winfrey tubby. Tubby? A proportionately small waist relative to prodigious hips and breasts have been the major attractors for men in picking an acceptable woman with whom to mate across cultures and millenia.

The Oprah statue shocks not only because it reveals the idealized body of a powerful, famous woman, but because the current female physical ideal allows it to be called "tubby". No offense to actresses Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightly or 100s of others, but the human species would not have succeeded had their particular physical types been fashionable or attractive to males across the millenia.

The Oprah statue is striking. It calls attention to the current cultural attitudes toward women and the female body. It's interesting that as women in the political sphere beginning with Indira Ghandi and Golda Meir through to Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto and Angela Merkel have become more visibly and genuinely powerful, as women have taken their places in boardrooms and humvees, the culture's feminine physical ideal has become ever more slight, emaciated and waiflike.

Image: Daily Mail. (Click for enlargement).

Don't order the Chicken Risotto when dining in certain hospitals in Slovenia.

( Photos: AP)

John Edwards and family shown today in the 9th Ward of New Orleans at a house building project as Mr. Edwards ended his campaign. The former Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate did not throw his support or delegates to any another candidate.

Also leaving the race today is Rudy Giuliani, shown campaigning in Florida. The candidate failed to establish himself as a leading contender for the Republican nomination with a distant third place finish in the Florida primary.