Category: Current Events

This is what I get from the last messages. People are often stronger than they know, bigger, more gallant than they’d guess. And this: We’re all lucky to be here today and able to say what deserves saying, and if you say it a lot, it won’t make it common and so unheard, but known… Continue reading I Just Called To Say I Love You

Ohmygosh! Suri Cruise is so cute!

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed: Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast. Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray’s barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. “Stingrays only sting in… Continue reading Crikey!

A few months ago, I posted about about a horrific child abuse story involving a mother, the child of course and paramour. No I am not some kind of strange child-abuse junkie (totally swore off late night Discovery Channel), but whenever I sit down at breakfast, open the front page of the paper, here are… Continue reading And So It Continues…

Lindsey Lohan wants to go to Iraq to perform for the troops. There is nothing wrong with her wanting to go to Iraq to boost morale. That’s kind of cool. Here is where it gets weird. She goes on to say: “I’ve been trying to go to Iraq with Hillary Clinton for so long,” Lohan,… Continue reading Celebrities Really Are From Another Planet

This is an AOL site, so it may not come up for everyone. The Chicks elicited more laughter as lead singer Natalie Maines dedicated the humorous ‘White Trash Wedding’ to Mel Gibson, sarcastically praising the actor for checking into rehab. “You know how it is when you’re drunk,” she said, in reference to Gibson’s anti-Semitic… Continue reading Dixie Chicks Make Jab at Mel Gibson in NY

From today’s WaPo (registration) When I [Gene Weingargen] heard that the new poet laureate of the United States was to be Donald Hall, the New Hampshire literary eminence, I was elated. The media accounts rightfully praised the beauty and sophistication of Hall’s verse. But that’s not why I was happy. I was happy because I… Continue reading I hope he writes a limerick for the next Supreme Court session

I feel bad for the guy. I think if he were not the great producer of the controversial and non-politically correct Passion of the Christ, this would be a blurb instead of big news. Were it Eminem, no one would care less. Why do I think that? Well for one, the article I linked to… Continue reading Poor Mel