The Google Suggests feature is usually spot on, but sometimes it spits something at you that just doesn’t make much sense. The technology takes other people’s searches, caches them, and then predicts what you’re typing in the search box. The Huffington Post has asked readers to grab an image of the most inappropriate things Google has “suggested.” I guess I’m not the only one who thinks Sarah Palin’s a bad person.

Sacha Baron Cohen, the mastermind behind Borat, this week unleashes the limp-wristed Bruno on theatregoers everywhere. While some gays are upset at the portrayal of the super-effeminate character, I feel just the opposite. Cohen’s act is obviously done with love, much like a drag queen’s lampooning of a woman. It’s an homage, not a mockery.

Bruno has been traveling the globe for movie premieres. And his outfits are ridiculous. The good folks over at Huffington Post have compiled all of Cohen’s looks in a slide-show. My hands down favorite: the pink felt catsuit he wore in Berlin. And because those Germans can be so naughty it obviously had a detachable pink felt penis. Obviously.

Everybody’s favorite green host, Simran Sethi, is making the rounds on the Huffington Post, offering her journalistic skills in an effort to shine the light on a very important Government decision regarding the future of Kansas’ environment. Simran Sethi has hosted Sundance Channel’s THE GREEN [www.sundancechannel.com] in the past. Her other major contribution to Sundance Channel’s environmental work is Simran’s web exclusiive video series called THE GOOD FIGHT [www.sundancechannel.com].

Simran has just posted a blog on The Huffington Post, focusing on Kansas’ landmark decision to deny permits to two coal-fired power plants on the grounds that their carbon emissions would contribute to global climate change. A bill that would veto this decision is being debated in the Kansas state legislature this week and next, and the outcome will have major repercussions for each state’s ability to regulate polluting industries like Big Coal.

Simran Sethi’s Blog Post [www.huffingtonpost.com]

The environmental consequences of this decision are huge, but it seems that not many people even know it’s being made. In an effort to generate discussion about this important issue, we’d love to see your comments and opinions.

After reading this, we hope you jump over to the post linked above and spread the info around to your friends. Thanks for joining us in THE GREEN BLOG. Happy Valentines Day!

If spending $150,000 of campaign donations on clothes is a political fashion DON’T, then looking like Jackie O in a $30 dress is definitely a fashion DO.

The Huffington Post just posted a throwback clip from another era of the campaign. Here the Obamas appear on Access Hollywood discussing their fashion and how much Michelle spends on clothes. You couldn’t create or finance a better attack ad if you tried.

Watch it here. [www.youtube.com]

Barack can’t hide his squeamishness about putting his young daughters in the spotlight. His discomfort made me feel uncomfortable, but in a good way. In the way we all should when seeing parents putting their children on television or seeing presidential candidates talking about clothes!

And how about Michele? Does she suddenly feel entitled to designer clothing now that she is in the public eye with her husband running for president? Nope? She is even more humble (or perhaps less snobby) than I am: she admitted to wearing an inexpensive dress from The Gap. And the dress that made it into fashion magazine headlines was a $125 job from Black & White.

You watch this and believe the message the candidates have been stumping around the country trying to convey to the American people: we are one of you.

Barack wears the same old pants he’s been wearing for years. He needs new shoes. He doesn’t know the name of any designers. He wants to see receipts when his wife brings home new clothes. He never gets new clothes. But as his youngest daughter, Sasha, pointed out, “we buy you ties!”

Yup, sounds familiar.

So how about instead of all these stump speeches and smears, we take a retrospective look at the candidates in the raw, (at least to the extent that their appearances on shows like Access Hollywood are “in the raw”), before the campaign turned into this mad dash to the finish line and everyone is going a bit nuts.

–Jamie Wong