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The Aurora Austrails, captured over the South Pole Station in Antarctica

Creepy stuff from the old country -- Horror film fan Suzanne Cooper yesterday named her baby Damien after the devil child in the "The...

Finally admitting it capitulated to Chinese censors, Google offered a tortured apology Tuesday, as in " we're sorry, but everyone...

Fundamentalist tight asses in Boston have taken time out from the gay marriage debate to deal with another impending cultural crisis: quee...

To be fair, radio yakker Neal Boortz is more libertarian than conservative, but he definitely skews right -- far right much of the time. Gla...

Never thought I'd be doing a follow-up to this story, but the details are too juicy to ignore. (His mother) claims Favreau was attem...

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their...

Paul Porter was born on June 6. He was always good with numbers. He just didn't realize how good. "A couple of weeks ago, I happe...

I try not to pay attention to rhetorical bomb throwers, much like I try to ignore screaming children. But you can't tell babies to shut ...

Truly, I think this is a brilliant idea. The Aussies deserve an A+ for ingenuity: In Britain, the Asbo is wielded to curtail the antics of...

Riding out the last hours before the Apocalypse, I count myself lucky to end on a really high note. No, I'm not referencing "Cheec...

Delicious coincidence, or evidence that we're living on heavily leveraged time. From an otherwise benign story about decreasing mortga...

It ain't social security ... It's the corruption, stupid! Lobbyists continue to control our politics, yet no one seems to give a dam...

And you thought Hollywood was full of nothing but liberal Democrats ... "George (Bush) is doing a hell of a job during very difficult ...

"Mime Van Osen" by Rachel's , off the "Music for Egon Schiele" album. Would've fit seamlessly within "Be...

Evidenced below, as I continue torturing your eyes with yet another glimpse of Carrot Top Piscopo -- Is this some strange attempt by yours ...

The Rev. Pat makes for a convenient villain, and he's typically deserving of the label. But the Malcontent plays fair, and it's time...

The other day I spotlighted the audacious campaign techniques of Vernon Robinson, a Republican challenger for a House seat currently occup...

Granted, Al Gore takes himself way too seriously, and his global warming crusade is not without opportunistic hyperbole. That said, Gore has...

Desperate for a theme to reintroduce a most hypnotic song unheard by these ears in years -- although I pretty much memorized it over many LO...

A new Quinnipiac University poll places George W. Bush atop the list of worst American presidents since 1945. When you beat Nixon two-to-...

What's next, same-sex marriage? A woman who fell in love with a snake has reportedly married the reptile at a traditional Hindu weddin...

Apparently Carrot Top is on the Barry Bonds diet. Guess he's following the career path of Joe Piscopo, another alleged comic turned musc...

Send your checks to Focus on the Family, care of James Dobson. The fate of mankind depends on your generous contribution -- On Tuesday, du...

Hopefully American journalists will join in. I'll do my part -- and since I don't use Yahoo already, it shouldn't be much of a...

If only Eve Harrington had thought of a stunt like this, she wouldn't have had to sleep with creepy theater critic Addison DeWitt --...

More wisdom from the famed dramatist and literary critic -- "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those w...

It's an arch example, but one you're sure to hear repeated -- a bit more subtly, I suspect -- in congressional races around the coun...

Homosexuality is but one facet in the debate over the proposed federal marriage amendment. Much more is at stake than simply outlawing same-...

"Straw Dogs" is an opera of violence, ambiguity and macho bullshit, but brilliant nonetheless. Renowned critic Pauline Kael call...

Outside of the most partisan Democrats and Republicans, I'd wager there's a consensus in America that a third party is needed. Count...

This story reminds me of the time I was arguing with a friend over the future of former "AI" runner-up Justin Guarini . He predi...

I'll make a deal with the fundamentalist crowd -- stop giving me so much material and I'll stop writing about you. The following v...

A man serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife is asking a federal judge to order the state to pay for a sex-change operation fo...

Zero tolerance strikes again, as stupidity continues to reign within our public education system -- A 6-year-old special education student...

Fascinating story in the USA TODAY about baseball's Colorado Rockies, who are seeking divine intervention to reverse the franchise...