(Sci­enceDaily) Vot­ers’ choices are heav­ily influ­enced by super­fi­cial, non­ver­bal cues, such as politi­cians’ appear­ance, accord­ing to Christo­pher Olivola from Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Lon­don in the UK and Alexan­der Todorov from Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity in the US. Accord­ing to their find­ings, vot­ers make judg­ments about politi­cians’ com­pe­tence based on their facial appear­ance and these appearance-​​based com­pe­tence judg­ments...
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Did that really hap­pen the way it looks as if it happened?
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In one scene she writes: "He takes hold of my head, then, with surprising firmness, and guides me under the covers. Under the sheets with their smell of laundry detergent, I close my eyes. Tears are streaming down my cheeks. Still, I don't stop. So long as I keep doing this, I know he...
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By Jeff Thomas (Mer­cury News) The first episode of the final sea­son of “Lost” will spew forth new lay­ers of con­fu­sion and com­plex­ity (It was all a dream!) right on time after all, with the White House seek­ing to calm a jit­tery nation by announc­ing that the pres­i­dent will not inter­rupt the long-​​awaited episode...
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By Dave Barry (Wash­ing­ton Post) To be sure, it was a year that saw plenty of bad news. But in almost every instance, there was off­set­ting good news: Bad news: The econ­omy remained crit­i­cally weak, with ris­ing unem­ploy­ment, a severely depressed real-​​estate mar­ket, the near-​​collapse of the domes­tic auto­mo­bile indus­try and the steep decline of...
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“See­ing tar­geted destruc­tion of our econ­omy, our secu­rity, dis­si­pa­tion of Amer­i­can jobs, mas­sive cor­rup­tion in the Gov­ern­ment, Con­gress Depart­ment of Jus­tice and Judi­ciary, it might be time to start ral­lies and protests using our sec­ond amend­ment right to bare arms and organ­ise in mili­tia.” –Orly Taitz
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By Benjy Eisen (Spin​ner​.com) In tragic news, the New York Times has reported that singer-​​songwriter Vic Ches­nutt is in a coma. While the cause is tech­ni­cally uncon­firmed, it is widely believed to be the result of a sui­cide attempt. Ches­nutt, 45, was a para­plegic since the age of 18 and strug­gled with unend­ing health...
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(Tele­graph UK) Angelina Jolie told Das Neue mag­a­zine: “I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essen­tial for a rela­tion­ship. It’ worse to leave your part­ner and talk badly about him afterwards. “Nei­ther Brad nor I have ever claimed that liv­ing together means to be chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other.” Read...
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GLENN BECK: A Palin-​​Beck ticket — I’m absolutely rul­ing out. CO-​​HOST: Oh God, not this again. Please can we not? BECK: Please can we not? (CROSSTALK) No, no I’m just say­ing — Beck-​​Palin, I’ll con­sider. But Palin-​​Beck — can you imag­ine, can you imag­ine what an admin­is­tra­tion with the two of us would be like? What?...
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(Press Release) The De Vere Code, is a new book writ­ten by Shake­spearean actor Jonathan Bond that con­clu­sively proves that the author of Shakespeare’s Son­nets was the Eliz­a­bethan noble­man, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and not William Shake­speare and proves the iden­tity of the so-​​called Fair Youth to whom the poems where...
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