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I see the newlyweds are back from their honeymoon. My thoughts: Spencer’s hair looks like over-highlighted flames rising from his evil/ugly head Heidi looks like a Real Doll, which is fitting since that’s about how much personality/control she has. While their “elopement” didn’t include family or friends, it did include photographers from US Weekly and a film crew from The Hills. Trés romantic.        ... more

It’s Isabella Sophia Gracin! Country star and American Idol alum Josh Gracin – along with wife Ann Marie — introduce their fourth child in the latest issue of Us Weekly. The 3-week-old, who arrived on November 12th, joins siblings Briana Marie, 6 ½, Landon Joshua, 3, and Gabriella Ann, 2. Josh, who says Isabella is "the biggest of all our babies, outweighs the others by a pound and a half and is an inch longer than our other three at birth," laughs that Landon, the lone boy... more

It’s Isabella Sophia Gracin ! Country star and American Idol alum Josh Gracin -- along with wife Ann Marie -- introduce their fourth child in the latest issue of Us Weekly. The 3-week-old, who arrived on November 12th , joins siblings Briana Marie , 6 ½, Landon Joshua , 3, and Gabriella Ann , 2. Josh, who says Isabella is "the biggest of all our babies, outweighs the others by a pound and a half and is an inch longer than our other three at birth," laughs that Landon, the lon... more

John Scalzi’s first book, Old Man’s War ... get it! Scalzi sets a tableau in the not too distant future, where Earth’s old folks have the option to retire at the ripe old age of 75 to join the military - the Colonial Defense Forces. "...Nukes are for pussies. Pussies. If the CDF fought like the U.S. forces fought, you know where humanity would be today? On an asteroid, scraping algae off the f**king tunnel walls . And which ones of you assholes are Marines?" A ... more

An article in Vanity Fair says the Bush Administration tried to do just that: US President George W. Bush is said to have approved a covert initiative to overthrow the Hamas government shortly after Hamas won the January 2006 parliamentary election, according to confidential documents obtained by Vanity Fair magazine. The documents, which have been corroborated by sources at the US State Department and Palestinian officials, reveal that the plan was supposed to be implemented by the Sta... more

Robert Sibley of the Ottawa Citizen now has a blog, Ideas & Consequences . Worth bookmarking. Here’s the conclusion of his most recent post: ...The betrayal of Prince Harry demonstrates how in a culture devoted to frivolity and vulgarity, journalism can so easily succumb to the dishonourable ethos that almost anything is justified in the name of keeping the masses entertained. Mark C. ... more

Increasingly with the provinces rather than the feds, according to a nice post by Paul Wells. No doubt part of the Conservatives’ hidden agenda to weaken the federal government outside its clear areas of responsibility. Good on them. Mark C. ... more