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Liz Pulliam Weston, who writes the "Money Talk" column for the L.A. Times, gave a renter some straight talk regarding how much money to spend on rent. Although her response might seem harsh, I think she has a point regarding renters who refuse to take on roommates and so are more likely to incur debt and not be ready for financial emergencies; in fact, of the friends I have with the worst finance

It looks like a storm looming on the horizon. It starts forming with a harmless Paul Pierce lay-up with 5:50 left in the third quarter, trimming a 20-point lead to 18. Then Eddie House drills a three after missing badly on three of his four shots in the first half. Ray Allen sinks two free [...]

The first half boiled down to the Celtics doing a lot of things right (shooting, hustle plays) and the Lakers doing a lot of things wrong (lack of confidence, letting refs get inside their head, poor shooting). Even though the Lakers out rebounded the Celtics by two, 19-17, the Celtics drew fouls on the Lakers (17) [...]

It was a well-played first half for a first game of a Finals. Both teams came out playing hard and neither squad allowed many easy points around the basket. The lack of nervousness and establishment of tough play around the hoop will set the tone for this series. Derek Fisher (13 points) and Pau Gasol (12 [...]

All I want are four more wins. The task is much tougher than that sentence makes it seem, but I’m just grateful to be able to write that first sentence during the first week of June. It means my favorite team, the Lakers, are in the Finals, the ultimate stage for every NBA fan to [...]

I have a couple thoughts on the Finals, which pits my team, the Lakers against the team of this site’s founder, Jeff Sack: Nine Fingers Bryant Alright, this might not be a real catchy nickname, but raise your hand if you remember that Kobe Bryant has been playing the last few months with a torn ligament in [...]

Particularly for UK readers. If you (like so many of us) are concerned by escalating fuel prices, please take a look at this ridiculous piece from Anatole Kaletsky, frequent columnsist from The Times.  Supposedly one of the country’s “leading commentators on economics“, this article does him few favours.

The most glaring omission this year -- maybe any year -- is Bradford Anderson (GH's Spinelli). The actor took a three-week role and turned it into a leading character. This guy has to memorize the most outlandish dialogue. Even when playing the fool, he is anything but. Unlike many actors, he does not need to act suave. Even when given the chance to be a hero, Anderson always lets that little "who, me?" edge come through..----Lynda Hirsch

The SA Human Rights Commission would not pursue three complaints it received about the controversial column that led to columnist David Bullard being fired from the Sunday Times, spokesperson Vincent Moaga said. This was because the newspaper had apologised, he said. “We received three complaints about Mr Bullard’s column but because the Sunday Times apologised we will [...]

Model-filmmaker joins site’s roster of featured writers. By: Justin Bourne Posted: 04/12/2008 CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Fetish-oriented networking site Social Kink has signed fetish model and filmmaker Julie Simone as a featured writer. Simone, also a published photographer, joins fetish aficionado Midori as a columnist for Social Kink. Simone is well known in the kink community, where her primary expertise is [...]

Generally, we don't put much stock in rumors, but when you get the word from the man who's in a position to know—round these parts we call him Malt Schlossberg—it's impossible to ignore. Speaking at an executive summit on video delivery, Mr. Schlossberg said that the 3G version of the...

Jeff JacobyJeff Jacoby, the ultra-conservative columnist for the Boston Globe, told a crowd of students and journalists earlier this week at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications that reporters get it wrong while covering the Middle East and allow their biases to get in the way of accurate coverage. According to the Daily Orange, a student newspaper based in Syracuse, New York, “Jacoby said the media tends to attract people from more politically liberal backgrounds. He defends his colleagues in the media as professionals who do not intend to skew stories, but he sees room for improvement.”Reporter Hope Morely quotes Jacoby as saying, "It's a problem when a newsroom is staffed by people who share the same political ideology. The left has taken a decided line on the Middle

It's a real shame when a newspaper that used to be very good starts deteriorating, as the Washington Times is now, and the columnist they have for comics, toys and other pop items is certainly a letdown these days, as this incredibly dumb article about the incredibly dumb "Lightning Saga" indicates. He clearly is out of touch with the rest of the fanbase online, or he's being deliberately

I must say that there is one columnist in this world, that I am aware of, that writes exactly what I am thinking. His name is Mark Morford and he is at the San Francisco Chronicle. His has written another gem about the US presidential election. I am going to paste a snippet here that you can click on to be linked to the entire article. While at the Chronicle's online venue, SF Gate, check out his other columns. They are fun reads!Here goes:...does all this excitement over Hillary and Barack mean the nation is finally ready for a female president? A black president? Have we, at long last, come so far that a guy like John Edwards, an excellent, likable, all-around candidate and a classic populist southern Democrat, actually finishes third? The answer, I'm afraid, is no, we are not ready. Not

While many people are already looking forward to next week’s big match up, the hard charging New England Patriots at the much improved Indianapolis Colts, there are still games to be played this week. The question is will the Patriots vs. Colts game feature two undefeated teams or will one of those teams lose this week? Lets see how I fare this week with my picks.   NY Giants @ Miami Dolphins- This game will be interesting. It’s supposed to be a home game for Miami but it’s being played in London. Home field advantage will be a non factor here, and I expect the Giants to continue on rolling this week right through the hapless Miami Dolphins. An interesting fact about the Dolphins, only one team has scored more points than the Dolphins have allowed. Want to guess who? NY Giants win this one 27-10.   Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cincinnati Bengals- The Steelers are coming off an upsetting loss to the Denver Broncos while the Bengals scraped up a win aga

Like a virus, my brand of humor is exponentially spreading to more and more hosts. But where would I be without you, my very very awesome fans. Some of you are new. Some have been supporting me since I began the blog back in March. I love you all the same, like a mom with three kids except I mean it. She is full of shit, she has a favorite. But thankfully for me therapy does wonders so here I am. I could try and name everyone who has been along for this odd and twisted ride but I don’t want to forget anyone. Some of you have been here when it was just news parodies and making fun of Jackie Mason videos on YouTube for not being funny anymore. You deserve to be mentioned after suffering through my early work. If I miss one of you who muddled through the rapture of the before time of Nothing to See Here that would be very unfair. But to be fair to myself, some of them were gems like this one and this one. The phone idea came from a bar regular at work with a really loud push to ta

Islamabad, July 21 (IANS) Pakistan “is going to break up in the years to come and everyone who can, should pack up their bags and leave”, celebrated columnist and writer Ardeshir Cowasjee has advised. (more…)

Very interesting interview where Eric Schmit is confrotned with current law Suite Viacom against Google regarding Copyright. I was a bit surprised to see Eric Schmit persistently dodge from answering direct questions regarding Intellectual Property. Another thing that I found hilarious was Walt Mossberg asking why Google didn’t recruit Human editors to take care of specific search queries? Oh dear!

Yesterday, Richmond columnist Don McNay tossed in his two-cents worth on Barbara Erwin's resume problems in his article, Unbridled Typos.""...[Dr.] Erwin may need a remedial course in typing. She also might need a course in semantics. In my high school grammar classes, we used different words than Ms. Erwin for incorrect information. One popular definition was “a lie.” Other definitions were “a falsehood” or “a misrepresentation.” “Typo” never made the list...""...If Ms. Erwin can teach me how to pad my resume and blow it off as a “typo,” she might be worth the money Kentucky is paying her...""...I am distraught that Kentucky would hire an education commissioner whose knowledge of typing and semantics are so weak. For $220,000 a year, they bought to be able to get a better candidate.When a government entity makes a bad hiring decision, I don’t get angry at the person being hired; I get angry at the people doing the hiring."And "Former Scottsdale Leader Lies to Ge

For the last nine months, over 200 players worked their way through the Mansion 'Poker Dome', all in search of the $1,000,000 first prize. The final table is now set, and last night PokerNews.com columnist Dennis Waterman won the final seat...

Controversial columnist Ann Coulter called John Edwards a ‘faggot’ during a speech at the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference and the audience laughed. I’m all for free speech, but I don’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, straight or gay, white or black, American or European, this should piss you off, because it’s just plain wrong. Instead of nervously laughing the audience should have booed, or at the very least kept silent. The thing that strikes me funny about her homophobic comments (this isn’t the first time) is that I’ve always pegged her as a lesbian or maybe even a tranny. ann coulter, faggot, john edwardsann coulter, faggot, john edwards

As many of you have heard, Tim Hardaway made some comments about gay people that weren’t so nice. Basically what he said was “I hate gay people”. Well it seems that one columnist at ESPN.com’s Page 2 is a little pissed off about it. In fact, she was so pissed off that she came out of the closet without actually saying she was a lesbian. In her article, Mary Buckheit says, “Tim Hardaway hates me.” While I believe Tim Hardaway’s comments were tactless and hurtful, especially because they were stridently directed at me, I still believe them to be permissible. We can say whatever we want in this country. That’s generally a really good thing — with freedom comes variety. But inherent in that privilege is a regrettable truth: Free, unfiltered speech sometimes brims with hate. Tim Hardaway said, “I hate gay people.” You may hate gay people too. You may respect Tim Hardaway more because he is willing to unshakably declare his ha

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The Comics Buyer's Guide's Capt. Comics wrote an interview with Joe Quesada about Civil War in issue #1619 that took a swipe at the detractors of the company wide crossover:CBG: With "Civil War" coming on the heels of DC's successful "Infinite Crisis," the online cynics are snarking that Marvel's crossover is a "me too" response, and even the fair-minded wince at the timing. What would you say to counter this perception?Really, is that so? And who might those "online cynics" be or include? The blogosphere, for example? I don't know, but all the same, as an online writer myself, I'm honored to be called a cynic! LOL, I'm sure he didn't intend to, yet that's what he succeeded in doing - making me for one feel honored by the implication of cynicism! Ha ha!Seriously now, the interview still misses the bigger picture, such as the mass interruption of the natural flow for only so many once great titles at Marvel, continuing the assault on Spider-Man's ability to be en

And now, having written my response to what Capt. Comics said about Civil War, I'm going to try to scrutinize an old entry on the message board of the site he owns, a message that the fluff-columnist for Scripps-Howard News Service wrote 3 years ago, because I am more than a bit annoyed at how he dismissed, in all his pretentious "glory", the ladies of DC comics from the Silver Age, and clearly doesn't appreciate the fact that, for women of their time, they were ahead of some of those featured at Marvel. And arguably, the nastiest put-down of the gals he mentions in the message he wrote here is what he said here about Jean Loring, back on March 22, 2004, in reply to a topic involving DC's women of the Silver Age:Jean Loring kept turning down Ray Palmer's proposals until she had made her name as a lawyer. As a genre convention it makes sense, but from a real-world perspective, it had a number of uncomfortable elements -- such as the implication that as soon as Jean married she had t

After the unveiling of that little piece of advertising mastery yesterday, Post columnist Richard Cohen, saw right through it all and leveled the former CEO of the 2002 Olympics. Here are some of the highlights from yesterday's column entitled "The Talented Mr. Romney:"I have been following the zigs and zags of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and now Republican presidential candidate, watching him grow progressively less progressive, sort of making himself up as he goes along. As a result, I surf the Web with trepidation, bracing myself for the story that I fear might be coming: "Romney Says He Is Not Really a Mormon...''Romney is not the only Republican candidate to mothball principles for the campaign. Rudy Giuliani is now not as pro-choice as he used to be, and John McCain has hired the very mudslingers he once wanted to garrote. But Romney is in a class of his own. He used to have fairly reasonable positions on gun control. Within the past year, though, he joined