Archive for July, 2008

XM – Sirius merger approved by FCC


It took pretty much forever for this to happen, but it has always pretty much been clear it would.  The FCC has approved by a 3-2 vot the merger of XM and Sirius satellite networks to form a single entity.
Sat-radio is an interesting buisness model that just hasn’t quite hit it’s stride.  With two competitors, [...]

Robber is Pizza Store Employees Father


This one certainly goes into the “weird stories” category.
Seems that Her father, her husband, and her mother needed to make some extra money, so they decided to do a holdup somewhere handy.  Well, Dad went out and randomly chose the Pizza place where his daughter worked.  Of course, he was wearing the standard wig and [...]

Brangalina Add 2 More


As has been speculated, Angelina Jolie finally gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, bringing the Brangalina brood up to 6 kids, which is sort of like they are trying to repopulate some part of the world all by themselves. Both kids are reported healthy and everything is fine, they were born [...]

Jamie Lynn Spears Cover Girl Mom?


I don’t usually go off the deep end on stuff like this, but I have to say that the US has sunk to a new sort of cultural low.  Double dipping the crap that is celebutard media, as it were.
First off, we have Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of (nutjob) singer Britney Spears and a disney [...]

Fox No-News Channel Stoops Low


It Appears that once again, the “fine” people who bring you the Fox News Channel have seen fit to sink to a new low. This is saying a lot for a channel who’s “anchors” are more often that no actually spewing opinion rather than fact, and show incredible disdain for guests or commentators they [...]

Nadal Wins at Wimbelton


Breaking a 5 year stretch of great play and good luck by Roger Federer, Raphael Nadal finally broke through and won the men’s crown at Wimdleton Tennis club in a marathon match that was delyaed by rain, went five sets plus, and finished almost in darkness. A true match for the masses.
In the other men’s [...]