X Factor: Girlband went home

Another week, another X Factor, and another girl band went home. This girl band just happened to be named Girlband. Seriously ladies, no points for creativity. Let's recap my previous point about the winners and runners up of the X Factor. White, male, solo artists have won 3...

X Factor: Bad Lashes went home

Finally, the first live show of the X Factor 2008. The nerves, the drama, the emotion, the anticipation! 12 acts squared off and one had to go home. And one certainly did.I don't think that there's any doubt that there's a pattern in what type of people win the competition....

Obama, Biden, Palin, McCain... AHHHHHHH!!!

I am officially sick of politics.In my humble and uninformed opinion this election has gotten completely out of control. During the primaries I found that people who never talked about politics, and were usually more concerned with how curly their hair was, were suddenly...

Americal Idol & X-Factor: sob story required.

Some people have hard lives. Some people have really hard lives. Some people's lives just plain suck.Do these people deserve some help and a second chance at life? Of course they do. Should we exploit these people's tragic lives in order to do this? The answer seems to be...

The Women: a remake that never left the 1930s

The film, The Women, is about infidelity. Other themes are mentioned but the main conflict in the story is an affair. The movie was based off of a 1939 film also titled The Women. In a film about relationships and marriage this should be the first tip off that this isn't...

WE TV plans a documentary on kiddie beauty pageants

WE TV is planning on filming a documentary on child beauty pageants entitled Little Miss Perfect. It's supposed to be a look into the Southern pageant circuit. Three other documentaries have already been made about these little beauty queens; Living Dolls, Painted Babies (as...

The House Bunny; new film, old issues

The House Bunny. It's new, it's funny, and it's going to be an excuse to strut out pretty girls while reinforcing society's negative view of women. If you check out the IMDB page for the film you can see the raging message board war about whether the movie is setting the...

Swedish officials allow parents to give their children silly names

A few weeks ago there were reports about an unfortunate 9-year-old girl. Her parents had decided to name her Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. When her parents started a custody battle as part of their divorce a family court judge found out about the girl's name. He declared...

Are paranoid or dead our only options?

After all of the reading I do about serial killers, rapists, murderers, and everything in between, one might think that I would be... well, more paranoid than everyone else. Being safe is great. Let's all be safe. Don't do stupid things, be careful when you're around people...

I predict that psychics are b.s.

I had never really had an opinion on psychics. I had seen some on TV with supposed evidence of their "powers" and I had also heard some skeptics refute this evidence. One way or another, it was cool to believe that some people had a special gift that allowed them to see...

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