Considering the nest of vipers into which he found himself delivered, John Sergeant could be forgiven for asking himself this week if he somehow managed to stray into the wrong reality show.
Because what must, on first glance, have appeared to be the mildly diverting prospect of a few weeks of gentle foxtrotting on Strictly Come [...]
Listening to the debate last night, I shuddered as McCain referred to Barack Obama as "that one".It felt as if "boy" was only seconds away.Shame on you, McCain, for not being able to at least try to hide what you really think.Some things are just better off being kept to yourself.
Great Falls, Montana (ThaLunatic Daily ) - Troubling new details have emerged in the case of a mother, who's two year old autistic child was found dead in the trunk of her car last Friday.Summer ManyWhiteHorses, a 31 year old Montana woman was charged Monday with deliberate homicide after investigators found the dead body of her 2-year-old son James in the trunk of her vehicle. Now police say the
I did, I drove in my Dad’s Chevy Trailblazer and pulled the trailer up to Idaho Falls and back! Actually, it was cake, and I wasn’t nervous at all! Well okay, I wasn’t nervous on the way home. I was a bit nervous on the way up there.
It was fun.. this [...]
Sturminster Newton Women's Institute
My first talk this month was on the Power of Humour in Everyday Life and my audience was the WI in the ancient north Dorset town of Sturminster Newton. Trying to get there and back in the evening from Bournemouth by public transport would have been pretty much impossible so I travelled by train to Poole and was met by their Speaker Secretary Heather Johnso
Letra - Celine Dion - I Drove All NightI had to escapeThe city was sticky and cruelMaybe I should have called you firstBut I was dying to get to youI was dreaming while I droveThe long straight road ahead, uh, huhCould taste your sweet kissesYour arms open wideThis fever for you is just burning me up insideI drove all night to get to youIs that alrightI drove all nightCrept in your roomWoke you fr
Omaha, Nebraska (ThaLunatic Daily) -- A little child suffers at the hand of a neglectful parent once again. Child services was previously involved once again. And now a 2 year old child may be paralyzed for life as a result. Sigh.Miguel A. Fuegos-Bautista, a 36 year old Omaha, Nebraska resident was arrested and charged with DUI causing serious injury and suspicion of felony child abuse after
One of the great scientific challenges is to understand the design principles and origins of the human brain. New research has shed light on the evolutionary origins of the brain and how it evolved into the remarkably complex structure found in humans. The research suggests that it is not size alone that gives more brain power, but that, during evolution, increasingly sophisticated molecular proce
Bryan, Texas (ThaLunatic Daily) -- Joe Barron, a 52 year old former pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church, has been arrested in an online sex sting after he drove nearly 200 miles to meet a 13 year old girl.Rev. Jack Graham, a current pastor of the Dallas based mega-church, announced during Saturday service that the church accepted the resignation of Joe Barron effective immediately.According t
Joe Barron, a 52 year old former pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church, has been arrested in an online sex sting after he drove nearly 200 miles to meet a 13 year old girl. Rev. Jack Graham, a current pastor of the Dallas based mega-church, announced during Saturday service that the church accepted the resignation of Joe Barron effective immediately. According to Bryan police, B
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These were the exact words out of Bobby Brown's mouth! Yeah.....hysterical!
The NY post reports: In his upcoming autobiography, Bobby Brown blows the lid on his wildly dysfunctional marriage to the troubled, Grammy-winning diva, suggesting that she drove him into a nightmare of drug addiction.
"I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but
Dave And Thomas Daily Timekillers and Salma Hayek Shrine: Lori Drew - Dave and Thomas Asshole Of The Year. Meet The Mother That Drove Megan Meier To Suicide
Some people are born evil.Hitler…
…Stalin…
…Lori Drew.
At the end of the year, which is only a little bit off, we were going to name the 1st Annual Dave [...]
Joe Torre refused the New York Yankees' final contract offer Thursday. He could not accept the salary cut. They offered him five million dollars to live in New York City one more year, but he's too proud to go on welfare at this point in his life.
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You'll already have seen this if you keep track of the tagboard, but the photo of the two J. Ehles over there was sent by a tipster (gracias). Apparently it's from a book cover. Too cute, innit? The same person also brought our attention to an article about Natalie Herzen in the Russian Review, which you can read if you've got access to academic journal databases.Thanks to Ann for sending scans from American Vogue, one about how Jennifer Ehle proves God's existence, the other about Coast of Utopia's "crass commercialism" (not). She found a photo of Ms Ehle at the Romeo and Juliet gala from Broadway.com as well (yep, a little behind here).Listen to three gorgeous tracks from Before the Rains' score at the website of composer Mark Kilian.An interview with Santosh Sivan in the Times of India - hopefully not a double post:[...] “I’m looking forward to Toronto where the film will be premiered and where our film is positioned with other interesting films,” says Santosh.The Rains
Ever up for a good philosophy book, I test-drove (i.e., borrowed from the library) Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes earlier this month. The authors, Havard professors Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, employ one-liners, jokes, puns, cartoons, and gags to explain, among other things, that Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything, and that angst is a basic human response to the very conditions of human existence: "It's enough to make you wish you were an airhead philosopher instead of an existentialist."If you don't love philosophy or can't bear the occasional crude joke, skip this one. Master M-mv and I thoroughly enjoyed it, though.Two excerpts:p. 37 [Logic]Recently, the clockwork argument has staged a comeback as the "theory" of Intelligent Design, which proposes that the supercomplexity of stuff in nature (think snowflakes, eyeballs, quarks) proves that there must be a superintelligent designer. When the Dover, Pennsylvania, Board of Educa
Despite numerous hype on security threats, the much controversial purchase of DoubleClick by Google has pushed through and closed at a $3.1 billion deal, about twice as much as the amount Google placed to purchase Youtube.com in the previous year. Google did this to expand their expertise in the field of display advertisements and as a strategy to keep from rival Microsoft to seize the benefits DoubleClick gives its highest bidder.
Over the years, investors in Google have been happily gaining rewarding dividends in its success in search results and advertisements which bring a huge chunk of Google’s revenue. Just like any thriving company, Google refused to rest in its laurels and past glories when it decided to take DoubleClick under its wing under a very considerable cost.
With this move, Google has definitely secured its potential in expanding itself in the business of being one of the most reliable online businesses in the world, and left little room for the likes of Microsof
So we have more politicizing of the Department of Justice by the Bush White House. I wonder if we have ever had a mutiny of sorts by the GOP against a sitting President? He seems to be doing his damnedest to take the party down with him. President Bushs job performance numbers are in the 20s which is the lowest any President has had in a generation. Its even lower than Richard Nixons numbers when he resigned. Rick Hasen, a professor at Loyola Law School who runs an election law blog, said that "there's no question that Karl Rove and other political operatives" urged Justice officials to apply pressure on U.S. attorneys to pursue voter-fraud allegations in parts of the country that were critical to the GOP.In this case it would seem that the fired attorneys werent prosecuting enough cases of voter fraud against Democrats in particular. Not that I feel a lot of sympathy for them as any time one of their candidates wins its the will of the people and when on
I drove up to our airport office to tie up some paperwork odds and ends, and overheard this:"Hey, did you check the weather for our trip yet?""Nah. Why bother. We are goin' anyway""Heh yup. I'll put in the fuel order""Sounds good, see you out there"The guys were my age, and appeared to be co-captains. Their US-registered King Air 350 was outside on the ramp.I looked outside at the freezing rain, got a cup of hot chocolate and went back inside my office, glad that I wasn't flying, and more glad that I wasn't flying with either of those gentlemen.
Paul Ingrassia's essay in The Wall Street Journal takes a stab at a question which has preoccupied me for years. How the hell did the American automotive industry, which once was the model of industrial might for the world, become a sickly embarrassment? Generally, blame is apportioned amongst these areas: management, labor unions, government, customers and bad luck. Ingrassia comes down pretty ha
