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On Friday, Northwestern University is holding a “Conan O’Brien Day” where a group of students will gather on campus and do the string dance.  Then the football team will beat the crap out of them.
I’ve been having a hard time explaining this whole situation to my kids – because they’re still very young.  So I had a doll made of myself – and now I can show my kids EXACTLY where NBC touched daddy.
Believe it or not, there are stories in the news.  There was a big Senate race in Massachusetts yesterday, and the winner, Scott Brown, made a victory speech where he mentioned that his two daughters were “available.”  At least this explains his campaign slogan: “Scott Brown: Creepy for Massachusetts – Creepy for America.”
Earlier this week in California, a goat somehow got into a strip club and caused $2,000 worth of damage.  Then it got up on stage – and earned all that money back.

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And if you want to know how David Letterman really feels about Jay Leno (as if there was ever any doubt)… (Gawker)
Video shows goat smashing through doors of strip club. Only interested in “females and eating,” says owner. (The Desert Sun)
Running boosts brain power, Cambridge study says (Telegraph)
Ringing in your ears? Try Quietus, a new medication named after the suicide ritual in “Children of Men.” You’ll never hear that darned ringing again! (io9)
Below: Hong Kong news organization’s animated take on the NBC/Leno/Conan/Letterman fracas. Even if you don’t speak the language, you’ll still know what’s going on! (NMA News)
–Richard Metzger
Photo: John Barrowman in “Torchwood”; credit: Todd Anthony/BBC Worldwide
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Brand X Files: Goat smashes into strip club. Fox readies U.S. version of ‘Torchwood’ and how David Letterman really feels about Jay Leno:

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While the Daily News chats with anxious pot dealers, the Post talks to old men in Brooklyn. 83-year-old Gersh Gofman apparently beat 99-year-old Steve Pulwers wth a steering-wheel lock over a parking situation. Reports the Post:
The near-centenarian said he was helpless, and tried to use his coat to defend himself. “I hit him in the leg with my coat like a little fly,” he said. Gofman, who hadn’t said a word up to that point, then threatened Pulwers in Russian. “He said he was going to send somebody to cut off my balls,” Pulwers said.
Gofman was charged with assault, menacing, and harassment.
And if you made a Venn diagram of Times and Post crime coverage, there would be no better story to place in the overlap than today’s tale of grammarian strippers.

See the full article from “New York Observer”

PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts, who has been very critical of Mr. Adderley’s performance as an MP and his decision to resign from the House of Assembly, suggested that Mr. Adderley’s future on the bench may be bleak.
“Based on rumors circulating I hear he has enough to worry about. What he left you for Elizabeth, he may not get. As I understand that the judgeship [isn’t] looking too promising. You know what they say about a promise, it is a comfort to a fool,” he told a huge crowd of supporters during a PLP rally on Elizabeth Estate Park. 
“But he played his part in what is nothing but a fiasco to use you, Elizabeth, to take our minds off of a failing economy, and a society wrought by crime and violence.”
Mr. Roberts has had harsh words for Mr. Adderley since his resignation and has painted him as a “political prostitute” and a traitor.

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Check out these snaps of Mischa Barton on the set of Law & Order SVU. The starlet is set to play a prostitute in an upcoming episode… Phew, I thought she had just hit rock bottom … Nice outfit, Mischa.

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It might be more accurate to say Harrison built Confidential on sex and the female anatomy, for he had been publishing a string of “girlie mags.” Noticing that many were following the Senate hearings on organized crime on the new medium of television, Harrison concluded that people liked the sense of having “inside” information, of exposing the gamy reality about figures whose names they heard day in and day out.
And that is just what he gave them starting in August 1952 when the first issue of the bimonthly with the lurid red-and-yellow cover hit the newsstands. It was immediately so successful that it spawned a dozen imitators. Today’s “entertainment” magazines, whether in print or on television, descend directly from it.
Confidential used a network of tipsters to get the dirt on Hollywood:
Adultery, homosexuality and lesbianism (then, of course, illegal and considered immoral in most of the country), stars caught in brothels, mixed-race sexual dalliances.
Its story catching Desi Arnaz consorting with a prostitute came out almost simultaneously with a Look magazine puff piece showing Arnaz and Lucille Ball and children as the ideal American family.

See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”

I find those figures stunning – and all the more stunning because hardly anyone seems to know them. (If you are interested, this is all in the Balance of Payments “Pink Book” published each summer by the Office of National Statistics.) We think of Britain as being the land where everything is for sale and being snapped up by foreigners but actually we earn a huge surplus on our investments abroad. We would be real trouble if we did not have them.
Nevertheless there are some troubling issues raised by the Cadbury tale. One is why families that have built up businesses feel the need to sell them. It is all very well for a scion of the Cadbury family to rage against the “asset-strippers” taking the business over. But the Cadbury family lost control years ago. That happens to many family businesses here, whereas in Germany for example, middle-sized family businesses carry on for generations.

See the full article from “Independent”

Mrs Loudon, who has a small shareholding in Cadbury, said foreign buyers of UK businesses should face similar restrictions to those that British bidders encountered overseas.
She praised Lord Mandelson for threatening government opposition to any asset stripping at Cadbury, saying “there has been a deafening silence from the other political parties”.
Meanwhile, Peter Cadbury, a great grandson of George Cadbury, who stressed he was not a spokesman for the family, said: “It is regrettable that a company which took 186 years to build up has had its future decided by investors whose aims are short-term.”
He added: “The City Code should be changed so that shareholders that appear on the register after a bid is announced should not be able to vote.”
But he dismissed threatened intervention by Lord Mandelson against “asset strippers” as “sabre rattling”.

See the full article from “Financial Times”

The Cadbury family today launched an attack on asset strippers Kraft after the US maker of Dairylea cheese sealed a £12billion hostile takeover.
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Another British Brand to be torn apart … like most British Company’s which have dominated its industry gets taken over because the shareholders want to take their money and run … what about what they left behind, real lives, real people and real hard work of the those who help make what Cadburys are … Im not just directing this to Cadburys, its to most of the British Industry in any market … a overseas company comes over and does a take over because they need our market share … shame they alway 9 out of 10 strip out the good infrastructure and think their system is always better and bring in their workers from their own countries to take the top jobs! yeah Cadburys did enjoy the funds from floating the company, but lets get real, …

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The recently concluded United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, known in UN-speak as COP15, provides a timely glimpse into a brave new zoological carboniferous epoch. As we all “know” by now, anthropogenic (man-made) global warming, or AGW, is the mother of all apocalypses, threatening all life in the universe, and causing every woe imaginable, from blizzards and droughts to tsunamis, earthquakes, cancer, dandruff, halitosis, toenail fungus, drug addiction, prostitution, and inflation.
It all has to do with our “carbon footprints,” you see, which are calculated from the overall amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with products and services we consume, which include, for example, emissions from electricity production in power plants, heating with fossil fuels, transport operations, and other industrial and agricultural processes.
Of course, everyone already knows who the main carbon villains are: Americans. We nasty middle-class Americans, with our gas-guzzling SUVs, barbecues, red-meat diets, and suburban single-family homes.
That has been the recurrent theme i …

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