What happened before the Aussie film industry found its feet? A slew of charmingly amateurish B-movies with blood, crocs, vomit and out-of-control foreign stars, finds Damon Wise Why!? What!? How!? Where!? For 100 astounding minutes the breakneck documentary Not Quite Hollywood mounts a staggering a...

Here is your single's love horoscopefor Tuesday, February 24: You wake up feeling as if anything is possible -- and it is. Don't waste this awesome momentum. Instead, maximize it! Write down everything you want to accomplish before you die, and set out on a course of action. Make it real by sharing ...

My favorite news story of the day — because I’m in desperate need of a break from Obama, Gordon Brown, and the imminent collapse of the banking system — is the article about the Saudi man who just earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records by eating 22 live scorpions. Whatever you do...

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The World Last Week -Some guy named Pat Quinn took over from Rod Blagojevich as governor of Illinois, which means that Illinois replaced a guy who had the name of a James Bond villain with a guy whose name sounds like that of a character in one of those terrible coming-of-age-in-America novels....

This just in: “Two post office workers have got poison from mail, which was sent to Israel embassy at Norway. Workers received burn wounds in their hands and faces. Workers are now treated at Ullevål hospital and have not received more symptoms.� Also, Barack Obama has declined a British offer ...

The historical record of far-right ridiculousness has been well-documented here and throughout the blogosphere. Who can forget Michelle Malkin's inspired cheerleader skit? Or when Rush Limbaugh mocked a guy's Parkinson's Disease tremors. What about John Boehner's public sobbing jags? Pat Robertson i...

Ian Bowater, this blog's very own LA Correspondent, with some final thoughts on the presidential race So here it is – the last ever Letter From The Left Coast. It’s been over a month since the last one but quite frankly nothing much has happened. Oh… there was some Black Guy who got made Presi...

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