We are fresh off of our self-instituted weekend-long cell phone and computer ban.
Golly it felt good to untether from the cyberworld. No one could find us -- unless we wanted them to. We felt so in control, so liberated from the nagging needs of others. We highly recommend it. We really do.
Dear Mr. John McCain: On this president and religion thing: Us, too.
God love ya, Miss Andrea
From the sports desk:
This weekend, it was NOT great to be a Florida Gator. Two 43 yard field goals. We deserved to lose.
Didya see the Jermaine Taylor-Kelly Pavlik fight? That Pavlik is easy to underestimate -- pasty white, not much muscle definition -- but SUCH guts and HEART. We love boxing so much we can hardly stand it. Dudes like that make it SO darned cool.
Hong Kong Canto-pop star Jacky Cheung has been banned from hiring any more maids from the Philippines after firing 21 in three years. And we thought Naomi Campbell was hard on the help.
A school in Illinois has banned hugging. What's next? Smiling? Prom? That kind of sick, thoughtless judgment is yet another reason why we support school choice -- in all its variations. If this principal focused less on banning expression and more on, say, civics, American history, math, science ... what might be accomplished? But no ... no hugging.
AS IF.
Speaking of good judgment, our Miss Andrea "What a Fabulous Idea" Award goes out this week to Miss Pamela Anderson, who has reportedly applied for a Vegas marriage license with the same dude who co-starred in and distributed the Paris Hilton sex video on, Rick Saloman. Perhaps these two just deserve each other. Mazeltov, kids.
The bra has turned 100 and all three of us could not be happier.
John Edwards has finally caved and decided to take public money for his campaign. Isn't there some sympathetic actor-activist, some rock denison, even a popular soap star who could prop him up like Oprah is doing for Obama? Poor John is virtually starless -- and if you are Democrat, you apparently need Hollywood in your camp just to get in the game. Sigh. Rich, handsome and spurned by the glitterati -- this is the siren song of the also-ran. Clinton-Obama '08. We are already printing the bumper stickers.
Rumer Willis, the daughter of Demi and Bruce, is a budding young actress and an odd mingling of her hottie parents' gene pool, no?
We'd be lying if we said we didn't secretly hope that Britney's new record was really great. We worry. We just do. What if Justin tried to help her? What if they got back together. We are such a hopeless romantic. What if ... she just got an education and better haircolor. We are nothing if not realistic.
Dana Delany is so thin that we weren't sure it was her on last night's premiere of "Desperate Housewives." Wow ... she looks pretty but so different. Hmmm ... perhaps it is more than a weight thing.
-- Andrea Billups, The Washington Times
