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Lance Armstrong lost many fans a couple years ago when he dumped his wife Kristin, with whom he has three children, for rock star Sheryl Crow. Apparently, these cycling fans sympathized with Kristin who nursed him through radiation treatment for testicular cancer and stood by his side when many thought his cycling career was over.… Read more.
I suppose one has to be of a certain age for this coming-out-of-the-closet marvel to have any meaning. But, for those of us who qualify, the news that Batwoman will be featured as an active lesbian in a forthcoming series of comic books is very titillating indeed. However, where many are heralding this news as… Read more.
If he’s a bad guy, if he’s running the (car bomb) factory, I’ll put the gun in his mouth and kill him myself … but first let’s get a fucking security check….There’s killing bad guys and there’s murdering civilians. Let’s do the first and not the second. Murderers we’re not, OK? [Marine Maj. Nicholas Visconti… Read more.
Celebrities enjoy a contrived relationship with the paparazzi. The relationship Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt orchestrate with the paparazzi illustrates this in spades. Jolie and Pitt as immigration officers But imagine a world so obsessed with and deferential to celebrities that they can get governments to do this: Jolie and Pitt pressured Namibian authorities … to hand over… Read more.
It has become a cherished tradition for most Americans to honor the memory of dead presidents by going to shopping malls and the memory of fallen soldiers by going to the beach…. But, for the few who care, Happy Memorial Day! Memorial Day Read more.
What Nigerians demand from Mr President is the courage and humility to apologise for making us go through this harrowing experience by embarking on the risky project called tenure elongation that led the country to the brink of disintegration. [Nigerian Opposition Party] Though virtually unreported in America, Nigerians took a bold step for democracy on… Read more.
…And then there were two – left barely standing – in the Coalition of the Willing to invade Iraq. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks on Thursday at the White House. Here are the main points of their joint news conference courtesy of Forbes. MISTAKES IN IRAQ — Bush… Read more.
The jury’s verdicts help to close a notorious chapter in the history of America’s publicly traded companies…Appeals aside, the end of the trial will mark the end of a dark era. [Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio), co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, which was enacted in the wake of Enron’s collapse to make company executives more accountable.]… Read more.
American Idol’s presiding arbiters of mediocre talent: Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul To date, my interest in American Idol has been limited to the entertaining antics of Judge Paula Abdul, which have included her Svengali-like use and abuse of a contestant as her Boytoy and her seemingly drug-induced ramblings that have been constant… Read more.
There are two sides to every story…. This is how the hopelessly compromised Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, pleaded on Monday in a vain and vanquished attempt to keep the probing media at bay and reassure his constituents that he’s not a crook. But what makes this plea especially feeble is the fact that… Read more.
