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US Marine Corps Gunning For Denver Nuggets (Video)

WHO needs cheerleaders? Eat yer hearts out The Hammerettes, West Ham’s legion of half-time entertainers. Over at the Denver Nuggets game, the The US Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon are … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Jailhouse Rocks For One Pensioner

INTEREST rates may be about to rise and homeowners may be struggling to keep themselves out of bankruptcy, but it’s not all bad news. According to one pensioner, there is … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Stolen Bulldog Broadband Customer Details

WE might as well forget about shredding our bank accounts and upgrading our internet security software. What’s the point?

It seems that an infinite level of incompetence on the part of … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Castles In The Sky – Interest Rates Rise And Fixed-Rate Mortgages

AN Englishman’s home is his castle but with interest rates set to rise, banks and building societies have decided to make it even harder for homeowners to pay for their … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Rosie Boycott’s Sticky Buds And Other Environmental Disasters

YOU have to admire Rosie Boycott’s garden.

The Lily of the Valley, the hawthorn blossom, an “exuberant” clematis called montana Elizabeth, the huge marijuana bush.

Only joking. The days when as editor … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment

Peas And News – Big Brother Danielle Lloyd’s Op

“BRAVE DANI GOES UNDER THE KNIFE,” announces the Star’s front page.

“I’m keeping my finger’s crossed it’ll be OK,” says Big Brother bully emeritus Danielle Lloyd.

In these trying times, we urge … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

The Martyr And The Fame – Why Virginia Tech Killer Cho Seung-Hui Did It

“CRAZED killer Cho Seung-Hui poses with his weapons in a shocking photo sent to TV news chiefs DURING his university massacre.”

So says the Sun’s front page. After the cod tributes … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment

Virginia Tech And Dick Cheney

LONG gone are the days when an editor had the time or ability to weed out repulsive and wrong comments and letters. Now anything goes.

In the Washington Post article ‘Articles … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)

People With Guns Stop People With Guns – Virginia Tech

As the Virginia Tech story rolls on the question of guns and gun use rages. Do guns kill people? Do people with guns kill people? Or do people with guns … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)

Britney Spears’ Ginger Fur Nightmare

“BRITNEY’S WORST NIGHTMARE,” promises the Enquirer.

Is Britney Spears’ greatest fear: a) her hair falling out, b) a misspelt tattoo, or c) being naked and chased by an old into a … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)

Larry Birkhead Wins An Academy Award With Dannielynn

LARRY Birkhead is with Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

The DNA test results are in and Larry has been confirmed as the baby’s father. Now he needs to … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Cash for Harems – The Benefit of Muslim Polygamy

THE Mail has a story its editors must have dreamed about – “Polygamous husbands can claim cash for extra wives.”

This means wives – of which the Mail tells us … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (3)

The Icing On Victoria Beckham’s Cake

DAVID Beckham and Victoria are looking at a cake on OK!’s cover page.

Vicky is celebrating her 33rd birthday at home with David. We don’t wish to intrude on this rare … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Family Misfortunes – More TV Phone In Scandal

VERNON Kay, he of the ‘hilarious’ Northern ‘wit’ and the never-changing hair-cut, has joined the likes of Richard and Judy as the latest celeb to be tarnished by a TV … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Gordon Brown’s Interest Raised

GORDON Brown may have dodged a vote of no confidence in the Commons yesterday, but news that the Bank of England is preparing to increase interest rates as soon as … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment

America’s Two For One Dollar Deal

YOU might have to put up with finger-printing and eye recognition and god knows what kind of profiling upon landing at an airport in America, but get through the Orwellian … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Jade Goody’s Double And Perez Hilton Invade

JADE GOODY is posing for a photograph with Perez Hilton.

Hilton, famed for his gossip website, is posing with Goody in London. This is Perez’s Postcard from London feature. And here … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comments (4)

Cho Seung-Hui And His Victims

GUNMAN Cho Seung-Hui stares out from the Mail’s front page. To his left is one of his first two victims, 18-year-old student Emily Hilscher.
Under the headline “THE DEADLY INFATUATION” readers … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (4)

Virgina Tec’s Charles Steger’s Speechless Speech

CHARLES W. Steger, president of Virginia Tech on the senselessness of it all.
Quote: “I cannot begin to convey my own personal sense of loss over this senselessness of such … (read more)

Posted: 17th, April 2007 | In: Broadsheets | Comment

Liviu Librescu’s Strong Moral Fibre At Virginia Tech

LIVIU Librescu survived the Germans and the Nazis and then was killed at Viginia Tech. He is now the totem the news agencies can rally around.

On Channel 4, news anchor … (read more)

Posted: 17th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (36)

Heather Mills Falls On Dancing With The Stars (Video)

HEATHER Mills has fallen over on Dancing with the Stars. This is some news in celebrity blogging circles. The only bigger news is that Heather’s leg stayed on.

… (read more)

Posted: 17th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Don Imus And A Lynching

DON Imus, white American radio shock jock, calls referred the Rutgers University women’s basketball team – comprised of eight African-American and two white players – “nappy-headed hos”.

The full text of … (read more)

Posted: 17th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)

See The Aga Khan’s Nephew In Chelsea Bareback Whores

PSSST! Wanna see the nephew of the Aga Khan in porn?

As the New York Daily News reports: “Andrew Embiricos, 21, is a junior New York socialite. He is the son … (read more)

Posted: 17th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (20)

Goodbye Kate Middleton, Halo Princess Diana

PRINCE William’s ex-lover Kate Middleton is holding a tennis racket and the Sun’s Arthur Edwards is doffing his cap and wiping a rheumy eye.

Arthur has been staring up Royal nostrils … (read more)

Posted: 17th, April 2007 | In: Royal Family | Comments (2)

Bryan Ferry And Why The Nazis Didn’t Have All The Best Tunes

BRYAN Ferry is surely not be alone in confronting the fact that the Nazi’s did not have all the best tunes.
Hooked on Reichsmusikkammer lists such great foot-stomping staples as Anton … (read more)

Posted: 17th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

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