From The Times Online: THE leader of France’s ruling party has privately admitted that Sunday’s referendum on the European constitution will result in a “no” vote, throwing Europe into turmoil. “The thing is lost,” Nicolas Sarkozy told French ministers during an ill-tempered meeting. “It will be a little ‘no’ or a big ‘no’,” he was quoted as telling Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the Prime Minister, whom he accused of leading a feeble

From the AP: Nearly 36 years after a man was stabbed to death during a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, investigators have closed the case, dismissing a theory that a second Hells Angel took part in the killing. Meredith Hunter, 18, was killed during the free concert on Dec. 6, 1969. The show, which drew an estimated 300,000 people, was billed as the “Woodstock of the West,” but the

Titles in the extended entry.  If you’re interested, email me or drop a note in the comments.  If any of you have universal players that can play DVDs from other regions, I have a bunch of Spanish, UK, French, and Aussie titles I can part with, as well.  3 Cassavetes titles still available.

Christ. What could I have possibly done to make my feet smell like steamed broccoli…?

I don’t know.  If it was me who got bitch-slapped in public by a septuagenarian actor hobbled with a pair of bum knees, I think instead of publicizing it I’d just slink home, order myself a Bowflex Xtreme, and start sucking down protein shakes like I once sucked down wine spritzers. But then, I’m proud that way. (thanks to Toby Marcell; more from Bill)

From Reuters: A judge has ordered best-selling writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci to stand trial in her native Italy on charges she defamed Islam in a recent book. The decision angered Italy’s justice minister but delighted Muslim activists, who accused Fallaci of inciting religious hatred in her 2004 work “La Forza della Ragione” (The Force of Reason). Fallaci lives in New York and has regularly provoked the wrath of Muslims

Sandy Duncan was The Star Spangled Girl back when you were swimming happy hour laps in your Pappa’s testicles.  Just so you know. Bastard.*

me: hood: me: hood: me: hood: me: hood: me: hood: me: hood: me: hood: me: hood: ”What?  What do you want from me?” me:  “Nothing, really.  Just like to remind people every now and then.  hood: me:  “Say, how ‘bout that Janice Rogers-Brown gal, eh?  I mean, a Black federal judge?  Who does she think she is, am I right?” hood: “…here we go…” me: “I mean, talk about your

Some things are worth getting outraged over.  In this case, what we have is a power grab by the Legislative branch on a cowardly deal brokered by 7 “moderate” Republicans that makes the party as a whole look as if it were willing to surrender its principles for a handful of conservative judges and a few avuncular platitudes from a Senator whose principle claim to fame (aside from his occasional

FOXNews is reporting (live) that a statement from Senator Mike DeWine’s office (R-OHIO) is scheduled for 7:30 PM EST.  A compromise on the “constitutional” / “nuclear” option for circumventing Democratic filibustering of the President’s judicial nominees is expected to be announced.  Developing… AP is reporting that a deal has been struck. FOXNew’s Major Garrett says Bill Frist’s office is confirming this.  Details forthcoming—though I suspect the filibuster will be saved