Monthly Archives: July 2010

An honourable Glastonbury mention must go to singer, actor and consummate clothes-horse Paloma Faith, 24, who spent much of the final day of the festival standing outside the press tent in a gold lamé arrangement topped by preposterous green headgear and a parasol.
"I'm drunk. I'm going to sing in the gay area at Glasto," she [...]

Comic-Con 2010 is in the books, and this year's event was another celebration of all things geeky — and many that are not. TV Guide  Magazine patrolled the halls and hallways of the San Diego Convention Center, ducking light sabers, caped crusaders and pen stabbings to file these tidbits:
- For its final Comic-Con appearance, Smallville [...]

“There’s no fixing the government health care takeover Democrats forced through on Sunday. It must be repealed.”
So said Jim DeMint, the Republican senator and presidential hopeful, speaking one day after health care reform passed the House of Representatives, clearing the final legislative hurdle to enactment. And it’s a sentiment you hear a lot on the [...]

AT&T killed its unlimited Internet data plan earlier this year, and now there is buzz Verizon may be following suit.
Engadget writes,
AT&T and Verizon tend to follow each others' moves pretty closely -- the two carriers regard each other as their nearest competitors, after all -- and we're hearing that Big Red intends to [...]

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn." Garrison Keillor
The best way to cook corn is on the grill, and I have a few tricks that you can use to make the Ultimate Corn on the Cob. This corn is so good, it should be illegal.
Boiling, microwaving, and steaming [...]

The overall cost for the UK, including the bill for the private sector and clearing roads, is thought to be even higher.
The Local Government Association (LGA), that represents town halls, said it was “environmental vandalism’ that is robbing councils of money to pay for schools and hospitals.
And the Campaign to Protect Rural England [...]

The portion of law-school graduates who held jobs that required a law degree and passing the bar exam shrunk to 71% for the class of 2009, from 75% for the class of 2008, according to a survey by the National Association for Law Placement. The survey also found that nearly 25% of employed graduates said [...]

As a sign of gratitude, the company held a dinner in his honor. "Sam," announced his boss, "it is my great honor to present this gift to you on behalf of the company." Sam walked down to the front of the table and accepted the gift with pride. It was a gold watch and on [...]

FILM noir may be hard to define as a genre, but it’s easy to market. Such is the seductive power of the term — with its associations of shadows and smoke, of hapless men hamstrung by fate, of tough women operating outside the boundaries of conventional Hollywood morality — that it’s enough to put the [...]

Senate Democrats are doubling down on the argument that Republicans refuse to reauthorize extended unemployment benefits because they want a better November through a worse economy.
"There's only one kind of job Republicans care about saving or creating: their own," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in a statement. [...]