We were all shocked when back in October Jose Baez’s team’s spokesman, Todd Black made the statement on a CNN TV Show over the phone, “This is a very serious case, involving not just the loss of the life of this little girl, but the loss of whatever is going to happen with Casey Anthony.” [...]

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Top Secret is one of my guilty movie pleasures, for the non-stop way in which it throws every imaginable gag at the viewer – sight gags, puns, political humor, slapstick, musical parody, movie parody, classical ballet parody, Omar Sharif in a crunched-up car, an underwater saloon brawl to the tune of the theme for Bonanza, [...]

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I love this movie.  It was one of my favorites when I was a child and I have watched it at least a dozen times.  My parents had taped it off of the television at some point in the early nineties, so not only did I get to see the only musical I have ever [...]

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Who doesn’t want a friend with magical powers?  As a child, I know I wanted one so we could go on adventures and fly and eat all the ham we wanted and whatever else all those weird fantasies were back then.  Even as an adult, I want a magical friend.  Now his powers would be [...]

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JT and Victoria try celebrating their first anniversary with mac n’ cheese left over chicken nuggets and champagne after they get Reed and Summer settled down for the night. Colleen is calling Brad knowing something just isn’t right when Billy and Lily go over there to help her out. She thanks them for their support [...]

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As most people probably know, an embarrassing picture surfaced of Michael Phelps smoking pot from a bong.  Because of this photo, Phelps will most likely lose millions of endorsements just for inhaling one night.  As a fellow person in my twenties, I do not find such a discovery shocking, surprising, or even bad. In my [...]

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A vessel which has been found to have asbestos on board has recently been ordered out of Australian waters, according to a recent report. The vessel has been at the centre of an industrial dispute in Darwin, and workers recently walked off the vessel after it was found to contain asbestos. It was a week [...]

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One of the greatest things I remember about growing up in Gray’s Ferry was how unashamedly Catholic we were in our Saint Gabriel days. Every school day was in itself an exercise in our Catholic faith starting with the prerequisite Catholic school uniform that was de rigueur in school. February 2 always has a particular [...]

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There’s something about a dystopia that just seems so right.  Mankind will always try to make a perfect society, but we are all imperfect beings so it will never reach perfection.  In some ways, I suppose that America is a dystopia as well.  We were supposed to be the golden shores that turned refuse into [...]

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This is in reference to the brutal killing of fifteen cops by the Maoists. I am pained to spot the difference between the killings of cops by Maoists and Terrorists. Here are a few that I have spotted. The Maoists are not Muslims hence, their news story is not highlighted nor any noise is made [...]

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Celebrating the Presentation of the Lord! The portrayal of the Presentation of the Lord in this magnificent stained glass gives us an opportunity to reflect on the great gift the Holy Family of Mary and Joseph is offering to the world. Their gift of Jesus, the Lord remarkably is one that heralds not only the [...]

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A quarter million civilians are under siege, facing lack of food and supplies in their small isolated enclave because of aggression by a stronger outside government that will not let them have their own state, while the most recent atrocity is the shelling of a civilian hospital and that at least 50 wounded children are [...]

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In Friday’s edition of “Best of the Web Today,” James Taranto writes this analysis of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan giving Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres a tongue-lashing during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos:   “One obvious point is that Turkey is hardly in a position to criticize Israel for [...]

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