February 2008


“Homelessness project gives four musicians the chance to get back on track and share a stage with some star names.”

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Nintendo sold 331,627 units of the Wii in the four weeks to February 24, compared with 89,131 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Thursday.

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Last night on “The Daily Show,” Samantha Bee satirized the media’s grand “plan” to destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. “We’re at debate 20, and I think everyone here is a bit disappointed that it took Senator Clinton this long to catch on to our plan,” Bee said, reporting from “the media’s Anti-Hillary War Room in the Paula Jones Conf. Ctr.

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Make no mistake, the myopic Clintonian view of electoral politics is history.

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Barack Obama said he has successfully quit smoking cigarettes despite the pressures of a closely contested and lengthy presidential campaign. “I’ve been chewing on this Nicorette, which tastes like you’re chewing on ground pepper but it does help,” the Democratic candidate said in an interview that aired Thursday on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

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Crude prices rebounded Thursday, shooting up more than $2 a barrel to a new record as a falling dollar and the prospect of lower interest rates attracted fresh money to the oil market. Retail gas prices, meanwhile, rose closer to records above $3 a gallon.

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Despite earlier not being sent to Iraq - and getting a lot of flak for it, prince Harry has been reported to have been on the front line in Afganistan

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Ads for Amnesty International. “The unofficial world record in walking on a tightropeProbably belongs to a prisoner in an Iraqi or Afghan prison. The prisoners are exposed to so called “enhanced interrogation techniques” which include “near death drowning experiences” where the head of the victim is held under water.”

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Sure, any war can be spun as some necessity against some Very Bad Person, preferably of brown skin, slanted eyes and/or differing deity. Not only can any war be so spun, probably every war there ever was has been, at least since the days when governments had to start offering some justification or another for their little foreign adventures.

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GA Republican Jack Kingston bashes Barack Obama for not wearing a flag lapel pin without remembering to wear one himself.

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