News For The Week Ending Dec. 27, 2007 »

By John on Dec 28, 2007 in Crime, Culture, Fun Stuff, Holidays, Religion, Right Wingnuts, Science, Society | 1 Comment

Here’s our last installment of the weekly tid bits for 2007. We’ve got a guy stuck in his septic tank on Christmas Eve. And leave it to Fred Phelps to end the year on some wing-nuttery as he blames the tiger attack in San Francisco on gay people. A wyoming woman stabbed her husband for opening presents early, and a bluetooth headset and cell phone foiled a robbery in Columbus, Ohio. We also have some Spanish scientists postulating that time might be slowing down.

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A Mighty Heart »

By John on Oct 31, 2007 in General | 0 Comments

The film is based on Mariane Pearl’s account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl’s life and death.

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George Will: The Pundit Time Forgot »

By John on Dec 18, 2006 in Culture, Society | 0 Comments

It seems that on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos this Sunday, George Will went off on Time Magazine for naming the users of the Internet and the blogosphere as “The Person of The Year.” Will thinks it’s all just about narcissism, and writing diaries.

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