I feel obligated to have an opinion on Paris Hilton.

So here's some nice poetry, because I don't want to have an opinion on Paris Hilton.

Tho I will say this: Anderson Cooper, a Vanderbilt, has no place second-guessing the heirs of the Hiltons.

Anyway. Poetry. Nice, non-Paris poetry. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss ( Read more... )

I had a free day today, thanks to Caroline and Jeff's wedding ( Read more... )

I don't have the energy to start bitching about the media's coverage of Anna Nicole's untimely death, but I will say this: I've heard 20 times in 10 minutes on the late, great Anderson Cooper 360 that Anna Nicole has a baby daughter, and that whomever is chosen as guardian for this daughter will control the wealth ( Read more... )

Here's a strange attack on Anderson Cooper from Fox and Friends... and who the 'Friends' are, I've no idea, but they apparently own an ad firm.

I actually don't disagree with most of what these assholes are saying. I was once a fond fan of Anderson Cooper, back before I got basic cable last year and could watch his show for myself. I mostly saw ( Read more... )

Ok. Note to everyone ( Read more... )

I'm still watching CNN, and they keep showing images of Dearborn, Michigan. And all I keep thinking about is The Dearborn Independent, Henry Ford's newspaper ( Read more... )

Jeez. So I love Queen Elizabeth I, or at least the idea of her. I loved Glenda Jackson in 'Elizabeth R,' and I loved Cate Blanchett in 'Elizabeth.' I loved Bette Davis in "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.' I loved Bette Davis in 'The Virgin Queen.' I loved Judi Dench as Elizabeth in 'Shakespeare in Love ( Read more... )

I'm gonna miss Saddam Hussein. Whether he was like Hitler in a socio-political sense is irrelevant to me; genocide, tyrannical rule, madness, thirst for war and land--whatever ( Read more... )