The Three Looks of Britney: Hot Teen, Krishna Convert, and Huge-Ass Necked Tabloid Fodder
While this is not the first time that Britney has shaved herself where most others don’t, it’s pretty clear that Britney is losing it. Too bad too. Why? Well, let’s have a reminder of what she looked like in the pre-Sinead O’Connor [...]

The NY Times reports today that Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela is undergoing a shortage of basic food stuff’s that seems attributable to the price controls he put in place.
Faced with an accelerating inflation rate and shortages of basic foods like beef, chicken and milk, President Hugo Chávez has threatened to jail grocery store owners [...]

Art lover.
Chip off the ol’ block.
Smart kid.
My friend Rocky.
hat/tip: Durk (via email; original source unknown)

Hard to imagine that there is any aspect of the Anna Nicole Smith story under-reported though I have to admit that I enjoy the respite the daily plot twists give me from the otherwise dominant coverage of Iraq, global warming, UTLA, …
This is from the latest email dispatch from Popbitch:
Among a cast of [...]

Adam Smith, author of “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” is to be honored by appearing on the new 20 pound note according to the Bank of England:

Making the announcement yesterday, Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, said, “It is such a pleasure to use the occasion of the [...]

We’ve all heard about the best selling Tipping Point and it’s seemingly omnipresent Malcolm Gadwell. Something about it never sat right with me. Turns out that I was not alone and some good folks at Harvard Business review have taken it apart.

In his best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that “social epidemics” are [...]

All models have to do is walk up and down a catwalk and act as a human clothes rack. That apparently does not lead to career satisfaction, according to new research by City University (London).
Compared to normal people, models don’t connect well with others, can’t make independent decisions, and lack feelings of competence. Another study [...]

I also knew there was a reason California voters approved that multi-billion dollar stem cell initiative and it had nothing to do with curing Parkinson’s disease.
And here it is:
Stem cell technique helps women grow their own implants
Women have grown their own breast implants through pioneering stem cell treatment, it emerged yesterday.
Scientists harvested the stem cells [...]

Next Week (Sunday 18 Feb 2007) the BBC will air an hour long documentary examining 9/11 conspiracies. It will be interesting to see their conclusions and the reaction to the documentary.
In preparation review our previous coverage (including the comments)
9/11 Conspiracy Nuts Make Inroads On Campus
Move over Charlie Sheen – Tom DeLonge is [...]

Apparently the US Census Bureau recognizes Supermarket Shopping Cart month, so it’s real.
This raises three possibilities:

1. The Census Bureau is overstaffed and unfocused.
2. Everything in the world has a month dedicated to it.
3. Life and The Onion have in fact converged.
ht: Marginal Revolution

So True.
Source: Signs-of-the-Times

Since Insider beat me to the Anna Nicole Smith story I had to go find something stupid to make up for it. 
Over at digg there is an article about another nutball trying to avoid paying taxes by disputing the legality of the income tax. 
This is pretty common and the courts consistently rule against [...]

America lost one of the great ones today:

Anna Nicole Smith: Now dead.
We’re covering this story since it is likely that most media outlets will ignore it. No doubt the fact that it is sweeps month even televised news will ignore the story that is largely based on a large breasted woman who often posed nude [...]

So true.
Money is power and sex is power. Therefore getting money for sex is just an exchange of power. ~ Samantha (Sex & the City)
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.” ~Shirley Chisholm
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s just [...]

Frequent contributor Dr. Hoist asks if you can identify which of these young ladies is from Minnesota?

…not that there is anything wrong with that.