Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush drew
a bigger TV audience urging new energy initiatives and
defending warrantless wiretaps than he did with last year’s
plan to revamp Social Security, Nielsen Media Research said on
Wednesday.
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer: Capitol Police dropped a charge of unlawful conduct against anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Wednesday and apologized for ejecting her and a congressman’s wife from President Bush’s State of the Union address for wearing T-shirts with war messages. "… [San Francisco Chronicle]
-With ratings momentum, TNA may try to load up on name talent, meaning that in the next month, Kevin Nash, Jeff Hardy, and Sean Waltman may be brought back, plus Sting may work sooner than originally planned. Nash’s return depends on whether a potential conflict with an acting gig in Hollywood gets in the way. Nash has proposed a specific booking idea for him to have a series of singles matches…
A tanker carrying 10,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid sinks after a collision in the English Channel. [BBC]
· For the sports fans out there, there’s some good shit going on at pigskin-punishing brother Deadspin today, like pictures of Super Bowl-bound Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger drinking like a…
Strolls writes “In an release which conjures images of avian borg, a press release tells of plans to release pigeons equipped with cellphones and GPS so that they can “blog” air pollution data. The plan is the brainchild of Beatriz da Costa of the University of California Digital Arts Research Network and is scheduled as part of the inter-Society for Electronic Arts’ annual symposium in San Jose in August. Da Costa has previously been involved with RFID roaches.”
It might be time to rethink that predictable bunch of red roses for Valentine’s Day this year.
Attention recent Paramount casualties: We understand you are probably still in shock at your untimely displacement, perhaps making dazed circles in the middle of Melrose, cardboard boxes of personal…
Well taking a page from Infinite Crisis it would be Steve Austin from Earth 2, battling Hulk Hogan from Kingdom Come. In a merged Earth cage for the speed force title. I’m a over-aged comic nerd myself. Harley Race verse Triple H, Andre the Giant verse the Big Show (not technical but a spectacle), Ricky the Dragon verse RVD, Hercules verse Billy Jack Haynes verse Chris Masters in the Full Nelson challenge, Killer B’s verse Gymina in the “who the hell knows whose pinning who” match, Moondog’s verse MNM in a loser loses hair match with special guest referee Brutus the Barber Beefcake, Iron Mike Sharp verse Val Venis in the jobber leaves town match.
Moments ago, Paramount Head Executioner Brad Grey addressed his rapidly depleting workforce to explain some of the executive moves that were made on this Black Wednesday, following the official…
E! Online - And thus it was that, for her next trick, Britney Spears got all
theological.
AP - Former NFL star Larry Csonka, who hosts a cable television outdoors show, pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegal filming on national forest lands.