My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Uma Thurman plays a female version of Spiderman. Unlike Spiderman, G-Girl has a bad temper and has trouble keeping a boyfriend. When she is dumped yet again, she becomes exceedingly angry and vindictive.  Now she uses her supernatural powers not only to rescue people in need but also to cause mountains of trouble for her image [Read More]

A Come-to-Daddy Moment

Maureen Dowd at her best. Her column about the dismissal of Rumsfeld and her speculations how it happened are hilarious. By MAUREEN DOWD (NYT) Poppy Bush and James Baker gave Sonny the presidency to play with and he broke it. So now they’re taking it back. They are dragging W. away from those reckless older guys who have image image [Read More]

Bush’s Brain

 Until last night’s election, Karl Rove could take it as complement to be called Bush’s brain. American voters no longer seem to believe that the brain of the commander-in-chief is large enough to steer the nation in the right directions. Republican politicians entering the 2008 races will now reevaluate whether Rove’s brain is large image image [Read More]

Jon Steward on the Outing of Gay Evangelical Leader

  Here is a another good story. Fallen Pastor Seeks Aid to Pursue Studies COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 25, 2007 (AP) The Rev. Ted Haggard, who left the 10,000-member megachurch he founded after admitting to “sexual immorality,” has asked supporters for financial help while he and his wife pursue studies in counseling and psychology. Mr. Haggard, the former pastor [Read More]

Grizzly Man

Timothy Treadwell lived for 13 summers with grizzly bears as if they were tame and loving creates before he was killed by one them. Treadwell created in total 100 hours of film footage that Werner Herzog has woven into an arresting documentary. The film is the most original piece of work that I have seen image [Read More]

Dr. Love has one More Piece of Advice for You!

This is a good story. I wish I had written it. By JANE GORDON (NYT) FOR years, Charley Wininger, a Gestalt psychotherapist and dating coach in Brooklyn, had wined and dined serious, intellectual women. A hippie who recalls being gassed while protesting the Vietnam War, he has always been passionate about politics and philosophy. He has image [Read More]

Rupert Murdoch’s Family Values

Murdoch believes in family values. That’s why he married three times. In a recent profile in the New Yorker (October 16, 2006) he explained. “I am a radical in the sense of supporting change… I also believe in free markets and family values—in a low-key way. I am not one to preach about it, image [Read More]