The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

Among the Top 10 April Fool's jokes of all time, as determined by the Museum of Hoaxes:
In 1992, National Public Radio announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again.
His slogan: "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again."

Among the Top 5 April Fool's jokes of all time: In 1996, the Taco Bell Corporation took out full-page newspaper ads announcing it had bought the Liberty Bell –
"and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell"

Lions from Africa used to be kept in a menagerie in the Tower of London.

Earth Hour

On Saturday, March 30, the world was asked turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour to promote electricity conservation and thus lower carbon emissions.

The Earth Hour, which was started by World Wildlife Fund in Sydney in 2007, is a way to spread the message that if the world switches off for an hour daily, carbon emissions can be reduced by 5 per cent annually. This year's target, 8:00 - 9:00 pm local time, was to lower emissions by 10%.

Cities officially involved in 'Earth Hour' included Aalborg, Aarhus, Adelaide, Atlanta, Bangkok, Brisbane, Canberra, Chicago, Christchurch, Copenhagen, Darwin, Dublin, Hobart, Manila, Melbourne, Montreal, Odense, Ottawa, Perth, Phoenix, San Francisco, Suva, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Vancouver. Of course, many cities not on this list participated.

Personally, I spent the hour sitting in my apartment in Toronto by candlelight, watching a hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens.

Read reports from round the world:

New Zealand Herald

AME (Dubai)

The Montreal Gazette

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Age (Melbourne)

The Toronto Star

The Vancouver Sun

Radio Telefís Éireann (Ireland)

Chicago Sun Times

San Jose Mercury (San Francisco)




The sparsely lit Sydney, NSW, Australia. March 29, 2008

Bill Maher's New Rules for March 28

HBO television show Real Time with Bill Maher's New Rules segment for March 28. This week: The U.S election campaign signs, Jessica Alba, Mormon University students, Yoko Ono, Democrat beards, Tampa teachers sleeping with students.

Bertuzzi Files Suit Against Crawford

Former Vancouver Canuck Todd Bertuzzi has filed legal court papers claiming his former coach, Marc Crawford, should be held personally liable for any legal damages a court might award to former Colorado Avalanche player Steve Moore, whose career ended after Bertuzzi broke his neck during a March 2004 NHL hockey game.

Bertuzzi, now with the Anaheim Ducks, contends Crawford, who now coaches the Los Angeles Kings, "failed to exercise control over and caution his players against physical aggression toward Moore when he knew or ought to have known that this was likely to result in injury to Moore."

Talk about not taking responsibility for his own actions! Granted, it's probably lawyers mostly at play here, Bertuzzi not only committed a cowardly act on the ice, but has committed a huge act of cowardice off the ice as well.

Read the Globe and Mail story.

CBC Radio 3 Nominations for Best Record Store in Canada

CBC Radio 3 has launched the Searchlight competition in search of "The Best Record Store In Canada." After hundreds of supportive messages poured in, they have revealed an impressive 47 nominated retailers vying for the prize.

CBC Radio 3 host Grant Lawrence says he was surprised by listeners' response. “I thought there was a digital music revolution going on, but it's amazing how fans of stores from every province in the country came out of the woodwork with very passionate nominations."

Voting has now officially begun, and will continue until next Wednesday (April 2), when the list will be pared down to 20, and announced on CBC Radio 3 at 12 p.m. PST/3 p.m. EST. The following week, the list will be pared down to 10, and the final week, voters will choose from the final five. On April 18 – the day before Record Store Day – the Searchlight winner will be announced. To place your vote, click here.

Check out a list of the nominees at exclaim.ca.

You Learn Something New Everyday

Kermit the Frog is left handed.

"Corduroy" comes from the French, "cord du roi" or "cloth of the king."

The stress in Hungarian words always falls on the first syllable.

Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.

On the TV show Gilligan's Island, the Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, the Skipper's real name was Jonas Grumby, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth. Gilligan had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

Drugs in Our Drinking Water?

Here's another argument against drinking bottled water -- ain't nuthin' but a party, y'all!

Painkillers and other drugs that are flushed down toilets will inevitably pour out of household taps in trace amounts around the world, a University of Toronto expert says.

Civil engineer Ron Hofmann, who specializes in drinking-water toxins, says a recent report finding painkillers, antibiotics and cholesterol-lowering drugs in the water coming from 15 southern Ontario treatment plants was "not surprising at all" to people in the field.

"There's a raft of studies that show these (drugs) are coming through the waste water treatment plants." he said.

Hofmann said the drugs enter the water supply when people pass trace amounts of unmetabolized medications through their urine, or throw unused pills down the sink or toilet.

Read the Toronto Star story.

The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:


The only other species known to French kiss "as a prelude to mating" is a small creature from the Amazon known as the white-fronted parrot. "After the birds open their beaks and touch tongues, the male spews his lunch onto the female's chest."

The grandfather of pop singer Huey ("I Want a New Drug") Lewis invented the protective red-wax sealant used in the packaging of various types of cheeses.


The Michelin Man has a name: Bibendum. The design of the roly-poly advertising icon was inspired by an 1898 advertising sketch for a brasserie, which featured a large, mummy-like giant raising a mug of beer and saying "Nunc est Bibendum," Latin for "Now it is time to drink."

Read the story here.

RIP Israel "Cachao" López

Cuban bassist and composer Israel Lopez died Saturday, March 22 at age 89.

The man simply known as Cacao and his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes Lopez, are known for the creation in the late 1930s of the mambo, which emerged from their improvisational work with the danzon, an elegant musical style that lends itself to slow dancing.

Read the CBC story

Smile of the Week

On Friday, March 21, a 35-year-old man in Adelaide, Australia called police to report that six men had broken into his house through a window and stolen parts of his cannabis plants.

You can probably guess how the rest if it goes...

Read the Denver Post story.

Bill Maher's New Rules for March 21

HBO television show Real Time with Bill Maher's New Rules segment for March 7. This week: The U.S recession, Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper, Eliot Spitzer and John McCain.

RIP George Gross

George Gross, the Baron of sports journalism in Canada for almost 60 years, died Friday, March 21 after suffering a heart attack at his Etobicoke home.

Born in Bratislava and proficient in five languages, the Sun Media legend was of an era when athletes and the people who wrote about them had character and colour. After defecting from Czechoslovakia in 1949, Gross started at the Toronto Telegraph - and eventually to the Toronto Sun - where he covered tennis, the Olympic games, hockey, soccer, figure skating...the list is endless.

George Gross was 85.

RIP. Mikey Dread

The global dub massive mourns the passing of producer and vocalist Mikey Dread, who died March 15, six months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was 54.

Read the Exclaim! story.

You Learn Something New Everyday

Author J.M Barrie is credited with the invention of the name "Wendy" as a girl's name, in the novel and play Peter Pan.

If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.

It is believed that England's King Charles II had a personal physician named the Earl of Condom and requested him to produce a method to protect the King from contracting syphillis, as the King was notoriously known to be quite an amorous fellow.

Top Ten Dangerous Cities in Canada

Surprises emerged when Maclean's magazine went searching for Canada's safest, and most dangerous communities.

Toronto and Montreal, obvious crime-ridden candidates with their well-publicized racial tensions and gun and gang violence, rank well down a danger list of the 100 largest cities or regions in the country — those of 50,000 people or more. Montreal ranks 19th on Maclean's crime list and Toronto the Good (some stereotypes are true) is a sleepy 26th, gruesome headlines notwithstanding. The most notable result is the geographic distribution of Canadian crime.

Halifax is the only eastern city in the top 10. The top nine — the Wild West — stretch from Winnipeg to Victoria.

Read the complete Maclean's article and find out what are the most dangerous cities in Canada.

Canadian Dollar's One-day Drop Worst Since '62

The Canadian dollar had its biggest single-day plunge in nearly 46 years today (March 19), falling 2.19 cents against the American dollar as a bleak outlook for the world’s economies also pushed down the price of key commodities such as gold and oil.

The loonie ended the day at 98.49 cents U.S. — the lowest close in a month. The currency had also fallen sharply yesterday and continued lower throughout today’s session, but the momentum picked up late in the afternoon.

Read the Toronto Star story.

Read the Canoe.ca story

RIP Wrestling Manager Gary Hart

Gary Hart, a wrestling manager that yours truly grew up watching, died on March 16.

Hart played a big part in the popularity of Fritz Von Erich's Dallas, Texas-based World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980's.

Hart will always be a notable figure in wrestling for introducing such great characters, such as the Great Muta, King Kong Bundy, The Great Kabuki and The One Man Gang; as well as bringing up many young, talented wrestlers like Chris Adams, Gino Hernandez and Al Perez into Jim Crockett's National Wrestling Alliance in the late 80's.

Hart suffered a massive heart attack his home in Euless, Texas after returning from an autograph session. He was 66.

Converse Makes Cobain Sneakers

Jeez, can you believe this...

Converse is currently producing a limited-edition series of Kurt Cobain-branded footwear as part of the company’s 100th anniversary sales campaign, dubbed “Welcome to the Converse Century.”

Each shoe will come peppered with drawings and writings of the late Nirvana front man that were published in 2002’s Journals

The product line comes with the full cooperation of Courtney Love, who initially green-lit the project, as well as a previous 2007 auction of the dead rock star’s memorabilia “to make a lot of money.”


Read the Exclaim! story here.

Smile of the Week

Where'd the Cheese Go? by Ween is a funny little song that has a story attached to it.

In 2002, the advertising agency for Pizza Hut approached Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, the duo who make up Ween, to record a promotional jingle, which resulted in a 30-second recording of "Where'd the Cheese Go?". It epitomized Ween-style irreverence but did not appeal to the agency, and Pizza Hut rejected several versions of the song outright. True to form (and somewhat indignant), Ween rerecorded the same song with new lyrics as "Where'd the Motherfuckin' Cheese Go At?"

The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

St. Patrick's Day spending is expected to drop this year because, "With the holiday just six days before Easter, many retailers are finding that they don't have enough space on their shelves to promote shamrocks and Easter bunnies at the same time."

"The total cost of buying, feeding, and maintaining a dog the size of a Labrador retriever is, on average, equal to the cost of one Starbucks Espresso Frappuccino a day."

Among the books in the library of the late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur: The Grapes of Wrath, The Art of War, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and All You Need to Know About the Music Business.

Read the story here.

I Heart Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli was on CBC's The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos on March 11.
She talks about her new book Losing It - And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, which tells about her ups and downs of here life as a TV star, being the (ex)wife of guitar hero Eddie Van Halen and a spokesperson for Jenny Craig.

Watch it here.

Chinese Lash Back on Rights

On March 13, China lashed at a U.S. report critical of its human rights record, accusing Washington of causing the modern world's "biggest human rights tragedy" in Iraq and of hypocrisy for passing judgment on other nations.

China's State Council, or cabinet, said the U.S. record on human rights was "tattered and shocking" and criticized America for its violent crimes, large prison population and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"The invasion of Iraq by U.S. troops has produced the biggest human rights tragedy and the greatest humanitarian disaster in the modern world," the council said in its report.

"It is high time for the U.S. government to face its own human rights problems with courage ... and give up the unwise practices of applying double standards on human rights issues and using it to suppress other countries."

Read the www.commercialappeal.com story here.

You Learn Something New Everyday

According to http://www.niagararegion.worldweb.com/ more camera film is sold in Niagara Falls than anywhere else in the world.

The first professional football team to sport an insignia on their helmets was the Los Angeles Rams in 1950, who hand painted yellow horns on their blue, leather helmets.

The American Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees

Smile of the Week

A small cardboard shrine is dedicated to Hollywood action star Chuck Norris at a U.S. military helicopter hub in Baghdad, and comments lauding the manliness and virility of the actor have been left on toilet walls across Iraq and even in neighboring Kuwait, soldiers say.

"The fastest way to a man's heart is with Chuck Norris's fist," reads one message at the shrine, which consists of a signed photo of the actor surrounded by similar statements.

"Chuck Norris puts the laughter in manslaughter," reads one and "Chuck Norris divides by zero," reads another.

Known as Chuck Norris "facts", the claims have already become an Internet phenomenon, and scores are featured on www.chucknorrisfacts.com, including "Superman wears Chuck Norris pyjamas", and "There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Oklahoma."

Read the story here.

Mary Anne caught with Mary Jane

A surprise birthday party for Dawn Wells, the actress who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," ended with a nearly three-hour tour of the Teton County sheriff's office and jail when the 69-year-old was caught with marijuana in her vehicle while driving home.

The officer who stopped her said he smelled burning marijuana.

Wells is now serving six months' unsupervised probation. She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving.

Read the Canoe Jam story.

Photo from The Associated Press.

Vatican Lists New Sins

As if Catholics didn't have enough sins to worry about, the Vatican has added more sins to their long lists of taboos. Modern times, apparently brings about modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.

This guidance came on the weekend when Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, the Vatican's number two man, spoke of modern evils.

Want to know what the new sins entail? Read the Reuters story here.

Cohen, Madonna Inducted into Rock Hall

The annual induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame happened last Sunday, March 9 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC.

The class of 2008 were blues harmonica legend Little Walter (inducted by Ben Haprer); Leonard Cohen (inducted by Lou Reed); John Mellencamp (inducted by Billy Joel) ; the Dave Clark Five (inducted by Tom Hanks ??); Madonna (inducted by Justin Timberlake); Surf rock pioneers the Ventures (inducted by John Fogerty); and songwriting giants Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (inducted by Jerry Butler).

Highlights included Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing Madonna's "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light" and Leonard Cohen's acceptance speech (video clip attached)

Read the Montreal Gazette story.

The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

Merely listening to someone on a cellphone "reduces by 37 per cent the amount of brain activity associated with driving.


"Nike's famous swoosh logo cost the company $35 in 1971. Twelve years later, designer Carolyn Davidson was more appropriately compensated with "an unspecified quantity of Nike stock."

Barbara Millicent Roberts – a.k.a. Barbie – came into the world on this day in 1959, when she made her debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Happy 49th, doll


Read the story here.

Bill Maher's New Rules for March 7

HBO television show Real Time with Bill Maher's New Rules segment for March 7. This week: Sharks, U.S Politicians eating, Japansese sex technology, Nicole Ritchie and American morons.

Easy Rider Motel to be Demolished

The Hillcrest Motel at 2143 Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto, where the script for Easy Rider was written by Peter Fonda is to be demolished this month.

Easy Rider was released in 1969, and depicted two motorcyclists travelling across America’s south and south-west, discovering its people. The movie starred Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson.

The final demolition date has not yet been set.

Story from Motorcycle News.

Harper widens NAFTA probe

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expanding the investigation into the government leaks that rocked the U.S. presidential race, a decision that could put the future of his own senior aide in jeopardy.

At issue is Harper's chief of staff Ian Brodie's reported revelation in casual conversation to CTV News a week ago that Democratic contender Hillary Clinton's tough talk on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement was campaign rhetoric.

The broadcaster later reported that an adviser to Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner, had made the same assurances to Canadian diplomats.

In a second leak, The Associated Press obtained a Canadian diplomatic memo of a meeting between Canadian consul officials in Chicago and Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee. The memo paraphrases Goolsbee as assuring the Canadians that Obama's "rhetoric" on NAFTA "should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans."

The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement signed by the U.S., Canada and Mexico, has been under attack in the U.S., where critics blame it for job losses. Clinton credited the leak of the Obama memo as a factor in her victory in the Ohio primary this week.

Harper, who criticized the Liberals' handling of Canada-U.S. relations, now finds his own government facing its most serious controversy yet on that very file.

Read the story from the Globe and Mail.

Read the story from the Toronto Star.

Read the story from the National Post.

Photo of Ian Brodie from Reuters

Councillor Refuses to Apologize for Asian Comments

I saw this story in the Toronto Star and just had to shake my head....

Don't expect a public apology from Rob Ford over remarks he made about "Oriental people slowly taking over.''

No stranger to controversial statements, the Etobicoke councillor stood by his claim that his comments during this week's council debate were meant as a compliment to Asian people.

"Those Oriental people work like dogs ... they sleep beside their machines,'' he said. "The Oriental people, they're slowly taking over ... they're hard, hard workers.''

Ford made the comments Wednesday during a debate over permitting shopping in the city on all holidays except Christmas. Council voted against the move.

"I don't know why I should (apologize)," Ford said. "People aren't asking me to."

Other Ford incidents that have attracted attention include:

In 2002, Ford calls Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti a "Gino-boy," a derogatory remark to Italian-Canadians.

In a war of words with Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby over a pothole, he calls her "a low-life" and "a waste of skin."

During last year's budget deliberations, Ford opposes bike lanes: "Roads are built for buses, cars and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it's their own fault."

Read the story here.

Toronto sells McDonald's site for a bargain

The city of Toronto has decided to sell a prime piece of land in the high-traffic area of Bloor Street West, just west of Avenue Road, for a bargain price and expects the property to be flipped quickly to allow a 100-metre condo tower on the site.

According to a Toronto Star report, McDonald's plans to resell the land to Kazakhstan-based developer Bazis International Inc., which is building an 80-storey condo building down the street at 1 Bloor and already owns the lot adjacent to McDonald's. As part of the deal, the chain would get a new restaurant in the building.

On March 5, city council voted 28-4 to accept the original offer of $3.38 million made by McDonald's for the building with a cheap 99-year lease.

Just two weeks ago, a blue-ribbon panel that examined the city's books concluded Toronto could do a better job of managing its massive real estate portfolio, and said the city could realize an extra $150 million a year from asset sales.

Some estimates had suggested the site, which is across from the Royal Ontario Museum, could be worth $7 million to $9 million, though its desirability could be limited by the long lease McDonald's holds on the land.

Question: How does this happen? You reckon the boys at Mickie Dee's could shell out the extra $3 million?

Read the whole story.

Photo from Toronto Star

You Learn Something New Everyday

Rumour has it that the American state of Washington was originally going to be called Columbia, named after the river. In turn, the territory directly north of the state had be distinguished by adding "British" to the its name -- hence British Columbia.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel The word also shares the distinction with 'screeched' as the longest one-syllable words in the English language.

The late Canadian actor Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he hosted Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.

Smile of the Week

High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush," suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.

Read the breitbart.com story

Clinton asked to leave the race

Supporters of Senator Barack Obama have suggested Senator Hillary Clinton bow out of the presidential nominating race if she doesn’t win in two big-state primary contests on Tuesday, March 4.

Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont hold primary contests on Tuesday, and Clinton, having lost 11 straight contests, needs to win either Texas or Ohio.

Read the seoulnews.net story.

Canadian sentenced to beheading in Saudi Arabia

A Canadian has been found guilty of murder in Saudi Arabia and sentenced to beheading, the Canadian government confirmed on Monday.

Mohamed Kohail, a 23-year-old Montrealer who has been living temporarily in Saudi Arabia, was convicted of killing an 18-year-old student in a schoolyard brawl in the city of Jeddah in January 2007.

He has 80 days to appeal his conviction.

Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier and Secretary of State Helena Guergis had been briefed on the situation and are following it closely, said a Canadian Foreign Affairs spokesman.

Family friends urged the Canadian government to intervene more forcefully, alleging that Kohail was the victim of an unfair investigation and trial.

Read the CBC story.

RIP Jeff Healey

Canadian Blues guitarist Jeff Healey has died on Sunday, March 2, after succumbing to a long battle with cancer.

The 41 year-old has battled cancer as early as age one, when a rare form of retinal cancer known as Retinoblastoma claimed his eyesight. He recently underwent numerous surgeries to remove tumors from his leg and lungs.

A prodigious teenager, Healey garnered much attention from his unique guitar technique, which had him playing his guitar on his lap. Known for his rock and blues style and performing with such greats as BB King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Healey however, preferred playing jazz with his band Jazz Wizards, with whom he also played trumpet and drums.

Healey's love of jazz also led him to host radio shows on the CBC and local Toronto station JAZZ.FM91, where he spun rare jazz tracks from his personal collection of over 30,000 vinyl records.

Read the Canadian Press Obituary.

New Indiana Jones Film Premiering at Cannes

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg's latest entry in the Indiana Jones series of films, is set to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The prestigious festival, which runs from May 15th to 25th in the French Riviera will premiere the film on Sunday, May 18th.

The cast of the movie, including Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf, have been told to prepare for the red carpet the films’ premiere - even though the Cannes line up will not be announced until April.

Bush: U.S. is not headed for a recession

President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts

"I'm concerned about the economy," Bush a White House news conference. "I don't think we're headed to recession. But no question, we're in a slowdown."

Can you believe this clown-boy?

Read the story KVIA here.

Pope Praises U.S for Their Values

Pope Benedict, ahead of his first trip to the United States, praised Americans on Friday, March 29 who oppose gay marriage and abortion and called for global nuclear disarmament.

In an address to new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon, Benedict touched on issues he will likely raise on his April 15-20 visit, during which he will meet President George W. Bush in Washington and address the United Nations.

Oh boy, I can't wait for this visit!

The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

In one scene in The Silence of the Lambs, an issue of Bon Appetit magazine can be spotted in Hannibal Lecter's temporary cell



The bug-eyed chihuahua in those late-'90s Taco Bell commercials is the same canine thespian who appeared in Legally Blonde 2, as Bruiser's mom.



Until the late 900s, Viking woman wore clothing that "accentuated the breasts."


Read the complete story here.

Bill Maher's New Rules for February 29

HBO television show Real Time with Bill Maher's New Rules segment for February 29. This week Alberto Gonzales, a Mexican cruise, television and the right wingers going crazy on Barack Obama.