Most people would remember Christina Applegate, 36, as the girl that played the ditzy blonde, Kelly Bundy, on TV’s Married With Children and also on TV’s Samantha Who?  Her on again/off again boyfriend, Lee Grivas, 26, was found dead in his apartment on July 1, 2008. The Los Angeles coroner’s office said a syringe was [...]

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Several reporters from The New York Times board the Q train at DeKalb Avenue during the morning rush and marvel at the diversity of the 128 passengers in a single subway car and see “all the homelands, all the ages, all the professions” that comprise  “New York City in the summer of 2008.” The Stiletto offers [...]

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Cloe wakes up in her car when Cane slams the door. She asks what time it is. He tells her he just walked 6 miles to the nearest gas station to get gas and he paid the attendant there $100 to drive him back. He knows it isn’t her fault that the phones don’t work [...]

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Janet goes to see Jack at the police station She tells him no one should stay in on the 4th of July. She says she has a picnic basket and she wants him to go to the parade with her. She has a warm apple pie in the basket which gets Jack’s attention until Katie [...]

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The lights come back on at Bo and Hope’s and everyone can see Daniel with Chelsea. Caroline tells Victor it looks like the little talk he had with Daniel did a world of good. Bo starts to walk over but Hope stops him and he says he is cool. Kate walks in and sees Chelsea [...]

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Model Christie Brinkley, of Sports Illustrated swimsuit-issue fame, has gone to court with her fourth husband after his affair with his 18-year old former assistant became public in 2007. Brinkley’s husband, architect Peter Cook, carried on a tawdry affair with his former assistant, Diana Bianchi, who was 18 at the time that their affair was [...]

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Canada is reputed to be bi-lingual, that is actually a misnomer. Quebec speaks French, everywhere else in Canada, English is by far and away the prominent language. Here in Alberta, Cantonese, German, or even Tagilag are just as prevalent as French. In fact speaking Chinese or Punjabi is way more useful than French! We are [...]

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(London, UK) a new website was launched in the United Kingdom to showcase the musical talents of the top British guitarist Jon Sterry. Sterry who together with his group, ‘The Echo’ are currently on tour in the London area. The website simply named ‘Jon Sterry’ highlights the guitar prowess of this young lead guitarist who [...]

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Dan Lowery makes his home in Vegas, he may not be a household name, but that might be about to change. He has a new video that was released on May 5, of course Blogger News has influence, and we managed to get permission to stream it. July the fourth is a very special day, [...]

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On August 1, state employees in Utah will be transitioning from the typical five-day workweek and will begin working Monday through Thursday. The four-day workweek is a “yearlong experiment” that will attempt to reduce state energy costs and also cut commuter gas spending. State workers will put in 10-hour days, Monday through Thursday, and will [...]

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Today, Independence Day, seems like a perfectly appropriate time to praise two war heroes: Lt. Commander John McCain, shot down in 1967 over North Vietnam by an enemy missile; and Army Captain (now General) Wesley Clark, shot four times three years later by a Viet Cong soldier. You would think these two war heroes would [...]

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Alberta may be the richest province in Canada, it has huge amounts of oil and gas, and with crude oil nearing the dreaded $150 a barrel level, Alberta is likely the only place in the world, outside of the Middle East that is booming. Booming also are silly laws. I guess with all this money [...]

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Cynthia Rodriguez, 34, claims that Madonna, 49, has brainwashed her husband, Alex Rodriguez, 32, into thinking he and she are soulmates using kabbalah, which is breaking her five year marriage up with the New York Yankee baseball star. 10 week prior to this announcement Cynthia gave birth to their second daughter which he didn’t even [...]

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Some real crazyness is being done in the name of copyright protection. I’ve written in the past that a new treaty might allow customs officials to check your laptop for music and film when you enter the country, and I’ve written about a “download protection” program aimed at college students downloading songs that was being [...]

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Earlier this week it was announced that corporate Linux distributor Xandros had acquired upstart San Diego based Linux distributor Linspire. For those of you not familiar with Linspire, they are the company that irked Microsoft by announcing a Linux product called Lindows. It was aimed at the low end PC market as a direct replacement [...]

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A Slash and Burn Campaign? I suspect that we may be seeing a new — or at least exaggeratedly mean tit for tat political campaign — now emerging. Both McCain and Obama are serious about winning this election. On most issues they stand poles apart so that we are facing some sort of winner take [...]

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Those of us who live in mature liberal democracies such as the United Kingdom and all of Western Europe have a lot to thank the United States for – not least her huge role in ridding Europe of tyranny in the Second World War. In my case I have always seen America’s own democratic processes [...]

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Obama’s been in the news courting faith voters, talking to evangelical leaders. McCain? He’s been visiting Colombia and Mexico. Ho hum. Yawn. I was bemused when one political writer wondered if the hostage rescue in Colombia had been “timed” for his benefit. Tres estupido.  What if the rescue had gone wrong? But of course, the [...]

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The political genius of Tony Blair, and unquestionably the main reason that he won three successive British General Elections, was that he colonised the centre ground.  The traditional rhetoric of British politics was always predicated on the ideological divide between “Left” (Labour) and “Right” (Conservatives). In essence those on the left were socialists who believed [...]

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