Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong continues to attack reports in the French media that he used a banned blood booster in his first tour victory in 1999. The French sports daily L’Equipe reported Tuesday that new exams on six urine samples Armstrong provided during the 1999 tour resulted …
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Toronto’s International Film Festival
This should ease Toronto's fear of being known only for its clean subways.
Read More »Blogcritics: Pat Robertson Says Time to “Take Out” Venezuelan Leader Chavez
On Monday’s broadcast of The 700 Club, Christian Coalition founder, televangelist, ’88 presidential candidate, and friend-o-Bush Pat Robertson unloaded on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying, “We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,” and accusing Chavez of intending …
Read More »We All Were Immigrants Once
Every person living in North America, even some Native Nations, is an immigrant from another country.
Read More »Rolling SIRIUS Stones: Band Gets Satellite Channel
When I was a kid in L.A. in the ’60s, for a (short) time there was a radio station that only played the Beatles and the Stones. In that time of extremely eclectic Top 40 radio — where a set might run from Aretha Franklin to Blue Cheer to Johnny …
Read More »Censorship at Blogger.com?
I'm not blaming Google for directly censoring anybody, only that they have created the possibility for censorship.
Read More »Vaginal Upgrades: Plastic Surgery Reaches New Low
Does anybody wake up in the morning and say, "I just really, really, really need to have my genitals reshaped"...
Read More »Pot City
The cover story of this week’s Time Out New York is about good places to go when you’re stoned. That’s right: high on marijuana, an illegal drug. And despite a loose tie-in to the new TV show Weeds, the article really is what it purports to be. Hooray for freedom …
Read More »Jackson Jurors Recant – Mesereau Retorts
Three of the jurors who found Michael Jackson not guilty on all charges brought against him in a dramatic June 13 verdict have now stated they believe the erstwhile King of Pop molested Gavin Arviso, his accuser in the case. Two of the jurors reportedly have book deals and a …
Read More »The Muslim, The Jew, and the Briefcase of Diamonds
The briefcase full of diamonds is secondary to the religion of the two men.
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