Google widens its lead.
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Britney Spears Among Least Intelligent 2% of Americans
Car baby photo confirms the worst.
Read More »Fifty Years of Silicon Valley
Fifty years ago the Adam company of the Silicon Valley Eden bravely raised its pointed little head in a former fruit-packing shed at 391 San Antonio Road, Mountain View.
Read More »Cartoon Controversy: Are Those Most Offended Least Familiar With Islamic History?
And satire, not religious sensitivity, should remain sacrosanct.
Read More »Study Finds Most Effective Gluteal Exercises
Through the wonders of electro-ass analysis.
Read More »Blogcritics on 24: Day 5
Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer — gaunt and with close-cropped hair, as if the accumulated weight of his frought past was all the baggage his frame could bear — returns from the (presumed) dead in season five of the hit “clock” series 24 to take on ruthless “Central Asian” (read “Chechen”) …
Read More »Stones Censored In Super Bowl Halftime Show
I have to admit that as ridiculous as it was to ignore home-grown Motor City talent, and as byzantine as all the logistics must have been to get the Rolling Stones and their massive trademark red tongue stage onto the field and ready to go for a three-song cup of …
Read More »Blogcritics on Super Bowl XL
After a remarkably mild winter, up to 7 inches of snow is arriving just in time to give Detroit a festive coating and complicate the movement of tens of thousands of fans converging on steel-roofed Ford Field for the 6:30 kickoff of Super Bowl XL between the Pittsburgh Steelers and …
Read More »The Image of Mohammad, Free Speech, and Religious Outrage
In September, a dozen cartoons were published in Denmark critical of Islam, some depicting Muhammad, the prophet and founder of Islam, in an unflattering light. Many Muslims consider it blasphemy to print any image of Muhammad. One cartoon depicts Muhammad with a turban in the shape of a bomb. Another …
Read More »Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Begins Filming Next Week
Who can now imagine the contemporary cultural space without Harry Potter? the most dominant all-time publishing phenomenon (over 250 million copies sold worldwide), AND an impossibly successful film series ($3.5 billion in worldwide box office). Yes, J.K Rowling’s boy wizard and his milieu walk with massive feet across our collective …
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