Read all about it When you let winemaking whiners manufacture jetliners, the results are quite predictable. Apparently JetBleu's entire fleet is comprised of Airbuses. Maybe we should call them Pepe Le JetPew.

Guy Ritchie says that the scathing criticism of his latest god-awful movie doesn't bother him: "...critics have been harsh all the way through my career but it doesn't affect me..." Maybe that's why he does not learn from his mistakes. And uh, I think the critics started when not all the way at the beginning, but the day Madonna sucked the lifeblood out of him and wrecked his creativity. Danielle Steele could have written and directed a better Swept Away.

Read all about it When you complain to the city to get your neighbor to mow his lawn, you might get a grass topiary you didn't expect.

Read all about it Junior Soprano's trial is just a bit too close to home. Can we spell

"j-u-r-y t-a-m-p-e-r-i-n-g"

kids?

Read all about it There's just no reason for a guy with a fraudulent resume to have passed any screenings for becoming the Chief of FEMA. Bush and his aides truly blew this one, a strong statement coming from someone who hates the left more than she hates flesh eating bacteria (actually, they're one in the same). So to give the pink ladies of the left any of their own ammo just pains MWB. But alas, unlike the pink ladies to the left of un-manicured left hands, we admit defeat more readily than the French army when we know we're wrong. And here, Bush was just plain wrong.

Read all about it The world has pointed their stinky little fingers at the US of A regarding this disaster. Los Angeles radio station KFI has people on site back east and they report that the foreign media (French, Italian, German) are putting mics in people's faces saying "Zow, vhere is zee blame? All zees deths und sahdness..." They can't help but relish in our disaster, since it happened during a Republican president's term. However, it looks like the "deths" will be few, very few. Fewer than the tens of thousands who perished in something as harmless as a heat wave in France. Not a hurricane, not a Tsunami, not an earthquake. But a heat wave. Read all about that one. I guess the pluck of the citizens of the US of A stands, doesn't it.

Marla and I were discussing the apparent and rampant trend for males and females to fall apart after 30, kids or no kids. Says Marla: "These people didn't just hit the wall, it looks like they hit the wall, went back through the wall, in fact, it looks like they're just going back and forth through the wall!" I haven't laughed so hard with a sore throat in all my life.

Read all about it MWB can't help but glow in the slow burn of the funeral pyre of the Raiders football team in the first game of the season (the treasured and rare Thursday night NFL game). They are proof positive that NFL teams cannot be bought. That screwball owners can screw-up the team. And that no matter what, MWB be Raider Haters (go Chargers)!

Read all about it In search of the reason Irish youth have been killing each other over a dark, freezing Island for 2000 years, Dublin researchers have found changes in teen brains that may cause all their troubles.

Read all about it An icon of my childhood, the mere mention of Gilligan's Island and the death of Bob Denver puts me in a certain mood. It sounds sappy but really I was kind of a bitchy little kid and I rememeber all the scraps and laughs we had, with GI re-runs playing in the background. Sis and I were bonded over this shit (Family Affair, Bewitched, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, I dream of Jeannie, blah blah). Barbara Eden is gone, Elizabeth Montgomery is gone, Dick York is gone, Jonas Grumby is gone, Jim Backus is gone. They're just about all gone. When the Brady Kids start knocking off, it's all over! (The total wipeout of the Family Affair cast just doesn't count. They were dead before we thought about getting old.)