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  • McGreevy and his lover

    Crooked Timber points out that Jeff Jarvies is pointing out that NJ media may have known about the sexuality of the Governer McGreevy, and the apparent appointment of his lover to a State job should have prompted them to report. It is illegal is it not? It’s great that McGreevey came right out and told…

  • Fans and non fans: be prepared for the return of Slim Shady

    Fans and non fans: be prepared for Slim Shady’s return.

  • Astounding Benefit of Believing in Hell

    Believe in hell and you’ll get rich? Well, that’s close: http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/believeinhell/believeinhell

  • Held at gunpoint in Nablus: Orla Guerin

    Irish hack Orla Guerin writes about her recent experience with being held by IDF forces. …But before we found him, Israeli troops found us, forcing us at gunpoint into a disused room on the upper storey – first the cameraman, then the producer, then me. There we saw Rana, trapped in a chair in the…

  • Georgia wants Russian troops out

    Yet more news from Georgia: Georgia’s parliament has called for the withdrawal of Russian peacekeeping troops from the breakaway region of South Ossetia. The number of clashes has increased in recent days, including an attack on Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. The Prime Minister’s convoy came under fire while he was doing a tour of…

  • King Gordy's video "Nightmares"

    Among the music videos I have watched recently, King Gordy’s « Nightmares » has impressed me. Of course, the Detroit rapper’s video is not aimed at an oversensitive audience, because it might shock some people.

  • Kobe victim intented to seduce Eminem

    August 11, 2004 — A former college pal of Kobe Bryant’s accuser is defending the NBA star on the Internet, where she’s posted sordid allegations about his alleged victim’s past, including what she claims was a plot to have sex with the rapper Eminem:

  • Boy George thinks that Eminem is gay, but he is totally wrong

    It is sometimes funny to see how gay artists make some assumptions when they come to talk about Eminem. Most of their assertions are based on Eminem’s false gay-bashing reputation.

  • New Statesman XML

    Congrats to the New Statesman, they have added XML feeds! http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nscontents.xml http://www.newstatesman.com/nsfronthalf.xml http://www.newstatesman.com/nsfreetoview.xml http://www.newstatesman.com/nsbackhalf.xml Man I love Sharpreader.

  • Georgia reports deaths in clash

    More strange goings-on in Georgia and South Ossetia. The question is who do we believe. I tend to believe the Georgians when they say things like “external forces [planning] to drag Georgia into a large-scale armed conflict on its own territory”. Or Russia to you and me. The Ossetians are blaming Georgia for: 28 people…

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