| PEARSON: In new 'Stone,' comedy meets the inexplicable
And that mission? In the first episode, it's to make peace with his dead father. In subsequent episodes, it includes fighting deportation on behalf of two illegal immigrants. Needless to say, Eli's boss at the upscale law firm (Alias' Victor Garber) is perplexed. The firm represents major business interests. Now Eli wants to sue one of their bread-and-butter clients? There's also the boss' daughter - Eli's fiancee - a woefully underused Natasha Henstridge. When they're making out on the couch and Eli suddenly imagines them surrounded by a war zone, she gets freaked out. You want to hear music at amorous times, fine. You want to see grenades fragmenting, no dice. For comic relief, there's Loretta Devine as Eli's sassy secretary, Patti. She hates his fiancee and takes it personally when she learns of his illness from someone else.
Big Zell Dis
Educating Mr. Wright: Man, it is a tough job, but somebody's got to bring these eggheads up to speed. ... 6:09 P.M. ___________________________ Mrs. Russert Blogs: Maureen Orth notes that "Elvis's death in 1977 rated two paragraphs in People Magazine." But, if memory serves, that's not entirely because the culture of celebrity wasn't well-developed back then (Orth's point). It's because in 1977 Elvis was not such a big deal. ... P.S.: Why isn't Orth blogging for HuffPo? Memo to Arianna: She seems like a natural fit. Memo to Orth: It's not bloggy to let a few little disagreements get in the way of mutually beneficial traffic-sharing. Enmity is so print. The Web's win-win! ... There, I've brought them together.... 12:56 A.M. ___________________________ Wednesday, August 22, 2007 New Orwell on Offense: Andrew Sullivan excoriates pundits who exhibited "spectacular misjudgment about the war in Iraq," something that he says "should consign the author to irrelevance." Fair enough.** [But Sullivan excludes anyone who "explicitly explained why he was wrong and apologized," and Sullivan has apologized, abjectly--ed.
HB 1804 lawsuit stays stalled
A Tulsa federal judge won't revive a group's challenge to the new immigration law.
A federal judge has denied a motion asking him to reconsider his dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged a new state law on illegal immigration.
In the same order issued late Friday, U.S. District Judge James Payne also ruled that a request by the plaintiffs to file a new version of the case was a moot point.
Rep. Randy Terrill, the author of the measure, House Bill 1804, said Saturday that it came as no surprise to him that the plaintiffs' side would keep trying to "trump up" some sort of reconfigured challenge to the law.
Terrill said he would expect the plaintiffs to turn their attention at some point to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals instead of trying to get Payne to change his mind.
US Human Dark Meat Barbecues Blaze - As Hitler and Prescott Look Up In ...
I used to be proud to be an American. But that was back a few years ago, back before I learned that the guy in the damp cave didn’t fell those towers, back before I knew what was actually going on. I was proud to be an American back then, back before I realized that, through no fault of their own, persons who merely happened to have the rotten luck of being born with skin not-so-lily white like mine were prime targets for radiation poisoning – the eternal slow burn from the inside out. No, I’m not talking about the genocidal slaughter of Uranium munitions on the Muslim world, on people with darker skins in combat locations like Iraq and Afghanistan, or by the Israeli military inside their own country and in Lebanon. Death by slow burn – the use of radioactive poisons in the open air inside the US - affects all Americans, but is particularly earmarked, targeted, and cherished for use in locations where primarily non-whites live.
U.S. 331 set to bypass Freeport
FREEPORT — The much-anticipated U.S. Highway 331 bypass around Freeport is set to open Wednesday morning, but reaction from locals is mixed. Some Freeport business owners fear lost sales without a highway cutting through town, but others praise the change as a safety improvement. The new bypass will help South Walton residents evacuate during a hurricane, said D.C. Davis, owner of nearby D.C. Davis Construction. And without so many cars, dump trucks and semis rumbling by Freeport Elementary and High schools, traveling will be safer for parents, students and buses. "I’m all for it," he said. The 5.5-mile bypass cost about $25 million and is set to open right on time, said Tommie Speights, Florida Department of Transportation spokesman. A ceremony will commemorate the opening at 10 a.m.
AP news in brief
The hospital let him keep handling high-risk pregnancies even after staffers said he put babies at risk.
Foreclosures soared 79 percent in 2007
LOS ANGELES - The number of U.S. homes that slipped into some stage of foreclosure in 2007 was 79 percent higher than in the previous year, a real estate tracking company said Tuesday. Many homeowners started to fall behind on mortgage payments in the last three months, setting the stage for more foreclosures this year.
About 1.3 million homes received foreclosure-related warnings last year, up from 717,522 in 2006, Irvine-based RealtyTrac Inc. said. Foreclosure filings rose 75 percent from the previous year to 2.2 million.
More than 1 percent of all U.S. households were in some phase of the foreclosure process last year, up from about half a percent in 2006, RealtyTrac said.
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