It looks like Paris Hilton will have to spend more of her time focusing on night club appearances and whatever else she has going that generates income. Her inheritance, it seems, is out the window. Even more, it looks like her grandfather’s decision to donate 97% of his worth to charity was partially influenced by [...]

This may make you cry; it may make you laugh; or it may, as it did Sara, make you revile and feel a serious, graven error has occurred. Canada’s crooner has released another disc with some of rock’s quintessential classics, this time he’s Anka’d a whole new breed of tracks that have graves rolling and people [...]

Roy always sends me the very best in crazy internet finds. The last few days have been no different. The picture to your immediate right was taken from today’s Los Angeles Times. It reads - Accent Elimination. Sound American. 310-930-8070. Free Consultation. Now, given that there are countless accents throughout the United States, one wonders if [...]

For those who’ve missed it and would like a gander, here is Michael Moore’s recent visit with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, courtesy of Comedy Central:

In the midst of all of this Paris Hilton speculation it is easy to jump to conclusions. Obviously, given her popularity and wealth, it’s easy to see why the majority would condemn her of late, myself included. Make no mistake, if her mysterious medical condition is simply stress caused by her inability to deal with [...]

Has the cult of celebrity in our society reached ridiculous proportions? Absolutely. And who’s to blame for that do you suppose? Celebrity is a wholly selfish proposition for most. It’s a bit of the chicken and the egg, really. Which came first, the celebrity being a decent person, or the celebrity being so driven to [...]

If one is to look for an example of a true American patriot, look no further than Daniel Ellsberg. For if the protection of the integrity of one’s nation is ever outweighed by the protection of a corrupted federal system, then patriotism itself is nothing save the willingness to forgive the abuse of an entire [...]

Humiliation, Alienation, Exclusion, Isolation, RAGE… Cho Seung-Hui. He obviously had an axe to grind… he evidently had been bullied and abused… these events along with severe mental illness and easy access to firearms made for a violent and deadly combination. In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, pundits have erected various bogeymen [...]

Because there was no other significant breaking news this week, (other than Anna Nicole’s baby’s daddy and Sanjaya remaining on American Idol…) the major cable “news” entities decided to whip up a hurricane of faux outrage when longtime radio windbag Don Imus tried to make a funny by calling the members of the Rutgers University [...]

One wonders what the majority of Canadians and Americans are talking about around the water cooler at work these days. Could it be, on the part of Canadians, that we’re dumping another $200 million dollars into Afghanistan? Maybe it’s that the terrorism legislation ushered in shortly after 9/11 is being voted down despite the Prime [...]