I let the prospect of the gorgeous Idris Elba lure me back into watching 'The Big C' last night. Huge mistake. Any correspondence to actual human behavior on that show is purely coincidental. Disturbed by my out of all proportion disgust with the show, and as someone with a real interest in why some productions work and and some don't, I went searching for reviews. Salon's critic agrees with me and describes it way better than I can.

on the other hand I could be an excellent opportunity for one or both of them to show just how sick they are of the party bullies.

The judge gave her a strong warning

which she will also no doubt completely ignore. good for her, that she had excellent legal counsel. unfortunately, this merely goes to prove, yet again, that justice is a bought and sold commodity. had she an overworked and underpaid public defender, i question whether ms. hilton would be out with only unsupervised probation.

Is he talking about her story that the blow wasn't hers?  That's not poor conduct, that's the smartest play in a bad situation...deny, deny, deny.

It couldn't possibly be a little blow in her purse...whats that got to do with conduct?  

Talking tough with his years cage time...what a d*ck.

The U.S. Attorney's Office is looking into claims by a watchdog group that Tea Party hero Christine O'Donnell used campaign funds for personal expenses.

Over the weekend, a Washington government watchdog group says O'Donnell spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars on personal expenses.

The thought of some cop sitting in a command center with access to all these real-time images, and the ability to sort 'em, just gives me the cold orwellian chills.  

(Reuters) - Celebrity socialite Paris Hilton was held for questioning by officials at Tokyo airport on Tuesday where she had flown for business one day after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine in Las Vegas.

Immigration officials at the Narita International Airport detained Hilton for hours after her chartered plane landed there, and then asked Hilton to stay overnight at an airport hotel for more questioning on Wednesday before allowing her to enter the country, according to Japanese media reports.

Western surge in obesity may have been caused by a virus

The obesity explosion that has swept the Western world over the past 30 years may have been caused by a virus, scientists have said.

Researchers have discovered new evidence for an illness they have called "infectobesity" - obesity that is transmitted from person to person, much like an infection. The agent thought to be responsible is a strain of adenovirus, versions of which cause the common cold. It has already been labelled the "fat bug".

There are more than 50 strains of adenovirus known to infect humans but only one, adenovirus 36, has been linked with human obesity.

Now scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have found that children who showed evidence of infection with adenovirus 36 were more likely to be fat. In tests on 124 children aged eight to 18, the virus was present in more than 20 per cent of those who were obese, compared with less than 6 per cent of the rest. Among those infected with adenovirus 36, four out of five were obes