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No Home Training!
I’ve stopped worrying about the approaching H1N1 virus epidemic and started to focus more on the already-here contagion of rudeness that is apparently raging through the ranks of the prominent and privileged. First South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson calls the president a liar on the floor of Congress—a gathering he and his peers have invited…
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Lockerbie Bomber's Health Worsens
It appears Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi’s time grows nigh. The health of the man convicted of bombing Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, who was released on compassionate grounds due to terminal prostate cancer, seems to have taken a turn for the worst.From Al Jazeera: “He is at a special ward at Tripoli Medical Centre. His…
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Kanye West, Hennessy and Masochism
Kanye West has morphed into a drunken, reckless loudmouth. He needs to sit down with a therapist and discuss why he enjoys punishment and outrage from millions. The brother has masochist tendencies. The brother is walking around with a stripper. The brother rolls up to the MTV Video Music Awards knocking back a bottle of Hennessy. The brother…
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Big, Fat and Not Wack
Season four of The Biggest Loser is about to kick off, so get ready for the blood, sweat and tears as we tune in to cheer on our favorite fatty. Fans will sit riveted as they strip down to shorts and bras—topless for the men—kick off a few ounces of flip-flops and mount the platform…
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More Money, More Problems
What does it take to convince federal watchdogs that mortgage bankers can’t be trusted to make housing loans without discriminating by race and ethnicity? If they need proof beyond all the obvious observational and circumstantial evidence available to the rest of us, then they should pay attention to a study being released today that was…
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Actor Patrick Swayze Succumbs to Cancer at 57
From ABC News: Patrick Swayze has died after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Swayze’s publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old “Dirty Dancing” actor died Monday with family at his side. He came forward about his illness last spring, but continued working as he underwent treatments. It was 1987 when Swayze became a star…
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Whitney Was Saving All Her Love for Bobby
So now we know, thanks to Oprah: Crack remained wack, as far as Whitney Houston was concerned. But marijuana laced with cocaine—the better to “level things off”—now that was a different story. Whitney, by her own admission, made a lot of drug dealers very, very rich. But Bobby Brown was her biggest drug of all.…
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The VMAs Should Have Been Lady Gaga's Time to Shine
Hey Saaret, you were right about Kanye West acting a fool at the MTV Video Music Awards. I honestly don’t know what the hell Kanye was thinking when he let his creepy attraction to Beyoncé get the best of him. As I wrote earlier today, Katy Perry was on point when she said that watching…
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Body of Missing Yale Student Found
On the day she was to be married, the remains of missing Yale med student Annie Le have been found. From CNN: Le’s body was discovered Sunday, hidden in a basement wall in a medical research building. The 24-year-old graduate student in pharmacology, who had been scheduled to get married the day her remains were…
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Philly Doesn't Need No Libraries
I know that there are many people who haven’t stepped foot in a library in quite some time. But I know that this doesn’t imply that they would want all the libraries in their city to vanish. Unfortunately, for Philly residents, this may soon be their reality. On its Web site, the Free Library of…