… what, no one can put it into words. I watched at midnight here in the UK as Senator Hillary Clinton, in the most magnanimous of unifying gestures, stopped the vote count by asking the convention to suspend its rules, ensure all of the ballots are counted and accept her floor nomination of Barack Obama [...]

With 90-days to go, Swiftboating Season has begun in earnest as charges and counter-charges by each candidate’s camp of injecting race into the election turned the current US Presidential race into that of a popularity contest for high school class president. No. I must apologise. That characterisation demeans the thousands of young students who prepare [...]

Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes (in true Oklahoma vs. Texas style), Belgians are starting to flex their global financial muscles. [...]

Last year’s writer’s strike saw a shortened television season, cost $2.5 billion dollars (according to the LA Economic Development Corp.) and multiple Hollywood projects were placed on hold for four months over web residual payments to writers. The quality of television programming sank further as studios overloaded with so-called “reality” programming and 22-24 week seasons [...]

165,000% inflation, 80% unemployment and a now brutally silenced cry for change does nothing to stop the lunacy that is the presidency/dictatorship of Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn from the Presidential run-off election scheduled for this coming weekend because government back militia gangs continue to terrorise and kill his supporters. [...]

My sister muttered the phrase “PMS,” as we walked in Beverly Hills when an over-pumped, cherry-red Ferrari Testosterone-sa scream-jumped the curb to the door of a chic hotel. The owner hopped out, tossed keys over his shoulder, to the valet and strode into the restaurant as a very tall, very blond, very silicon-implanted girlfriend scooted [...]

You’d think the time pressure of being several G-8 nations’ lead representative trying to craft a last-minute, face saving Middle East peace deal for George W. Bush’s legacy (he only has 234 days left to his regime and sabre rattling/bombing Iran is still on the table) would be a big enough job. Or, trying to [...]

The Democrat Primary local heads this weekend to a crucial (yawn) convention by-laws committee meeting that seems certain to have the thrill and impact of a wet firecracker vs. Hillary’s much feared nuclear option of three weeks ago. The Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated but with a 50% penalty and the delegates split [...]

And it was not in an election for president. 60% more people voted for an American Idol television talent program candidate over the last 24 hours than cast a vote in either party’s 50 Presidential primaries to date. The numbers are stunning:
97.5 million people voted in the 24-hours following the televised songfest grand finale which [...]

This Saturday Night the curtain falls on Season 33 of a program begun in the Fall of my freshman year at University. NBC’s Saturday Night’s first few episodes were mostly forgettable. The show began on 11 October 1975 at 11:30 pm where for 90-minutes cast members, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane [...]