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Speaks to Salon from the airport: [Puts the phone in the tray and it goes through the X-ray machine. It is quiet in there, with occasional sounds of fumbling. Clatter as Franken picks up the phone again.] OK, so we were talking about why you get under the skin of …

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. and so many other great orators and civil rights leader spoke of the desire for true equality. I have been listening to NPR’s Tavis Smiley show the past few days as …

I admit I have lulled into hoping one more time that peace could be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians, especially if it could avoid yet more bloodshed in the bloody region. But the terrorist attacks keep coming, the innocent Israeli dead keep piling up, even as the Palestinian leadership …

Cleveland’s own O’Jays just wrapped up a 20-city tour, and they acted in the upcoming film The Fighting Temptations with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles. JoAnne Allen interviewed them for Reuters: It is not the first time the O’Jays have appeared in a movie, but it is the first …

Anna is pretty hot and all, modeling her new sports bra on Amazon. But Anna is no longer in the same league with Serena Williams, who is not only the top women’s player in the world, but has begun an acting career and is every bit as hot as Anna, …

We dig TechTV, with all kinds of useful, entertaining and strange information on matters tech (especially since they picked us as a favorite blog – thanks Sarah!) Now it’s for sale: Paul Allen, the entrepreneur and co-founder of software maker Microsoft Corp. is looking to sell his technology-related cable channel …

Rolling Stone picks the 100 greatest guitarists of all time in the new issue coming out Friday: Late rock musicians Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman lead the list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Hendrix, who invariably tops such polls, …

Fox News, trounced and ridiculed in court and in the blogosphere (see Ernest Svenson’s analysis here), has dropped its lawsuit against Al Franken: The lawsuit had sought unspecified damages from Franken and Penguin Group, publisher of “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at …

Nine years after the “Trial of the Century,” O.J. Simpson talks to Playboy magazine: “I didn’t commit the crime. That is why I got off,” he said. “I feel in my heart that I got off because I was innocent. But I don’t know if I could have proven my …

Contrary to reports last week, Courtney Love’s mother Linda Carroll is denying that she is Marlon Brando’s daughter and that Courtney is Brando’s granddaughter: Linda Carroll, 59, became the focus of attention last week when a story surfaced in a London newspaper that Brando was Love’s grandfather by virtue of …