I wonder if this will ever catch on. Maybe if Paris Hilton or Britney Spears starts wearing dead bugs around their necks then it will start becoming a trend, but I have a feeling they won't be doing that anytime...
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During the Democratic primaries, I sometimes wondered if Obama and Clinton sometimes secretly wished the other would win, given the mess that they were inheriting. It certainly is Herculean -- a foreign policy agenda that has America bogged down in not one but two wars,...
Tigerfarms wrote an article on his experience in China with the taxi drivers here. "Some drivers complain the checks are too strict." I laugh at the drivers who is complaining. Have any of you readers been to China...
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"Can it be a kind of racism that the Indian-born, Philadelphia-raised auteur is hammered for his apparent character (or funny name) rather more than, say, Quentin Tarantino or Spike Lee, asks horror scholar Kim...
Expect an uptick in sleaze in preparation for the Republican Party convention in Minneapolis this summer. For example, the FBI is looking for informers to go undercover and show up at “vegan potlucks”...
Retired American President and tireless peace activist Jimmy Carter speaks out about the siege of Gaza, and the betrayal of the USA's vaunted stand for Middle East democracy in today's editorial commentary published...
A sport radio DJ in the UK has been fired by the BBC after urging his listeners to vote for Boris Johnson in last Thursdays London mayor election."Radio host James Whale has been fired by Talksport after urging...
"The news was barely noticed by the big non-specialised media: the World Bank admitted in December 2007 that it overestimated the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of China for a number of years. This is what happened."
Who says there's no longer any money in the music biz?Jay-Z and Mary J are proving end-of-the-industry analysts to be wildly wrong, as they pad their already well-lined pockets with mo' dolla dolla bills,...
" A Suffolk County judge approved the measure Thursday, telling a man accused of shooting a family's pet duck to stay away from the bird and her owners. Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
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It is perhaps unusual to open an article on the credibility of writers on Middle East topics with in the headline the words ’Toilet Paper’. But why not? And lets see...
Ok, so this is not shocking by any means, but it is interesting to see if celebrities actually follow-up on half the things they say in the meida. Obviously, Paris Hilton has not..."After Paris Hilton went to jail...
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At least 10 activists have been arrested and hundreds were barred from starting a march from India to Tibet on Monday. They were protesting this summer's olympic games in Beijing. The protest began on the anniversary...
"“China spends 9 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on infrastructure and India budgets 3.5 percent … while aiming to increase its allocation to 8 percent. By comparison, the United States budgets $112.9 billion or just 0.93 percent of its GDP, and sidesteps the...
Like the Rolling Stones have proven for at least the past 100 decades, it pays to stay together. And if your rock band has long since broken up, it's as simple as this: re-unite, rehearse, and reap the...