Am I the only one who thinks Lila (Stephanie Romanov) from Angel is insanely hot?
And why hasn’t she been in anything else, really?
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Am I the only one who thinks Lila (Stephanie Romanov) from Angel is insanely hot?
And why hasn’t she been in anything else, really?
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The end of an era:
James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died early Wednesday. He was 85.
Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, he said.
The Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor when he auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on NBC in 1966. A master of dialects from his early years in radio, he tried seven different accents.
“The producers asked me which one I preferred,” Doohan recalled 30 years later. “I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told them, ‘If this character is going to be an engineer, you’d better make him a Scotsman.'”
I feel old.
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Either the folks at Kos aren’t getting it, or they are just trying to keep hope alive:
In 1993, when Justice Byron White retired from the bench, President Clinton was thinking of nominating Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, who was not necessarily the most popular choice, to fill the seat. Did Clinton try to ram the appointment through? He could have – he still had a pretty sizable majority in the Senate at that point.
But in fact, Clinton decided to discuss the vacancy with the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who was “not surprised” that the President reached out to him…
The post then goes on to list the history of advise and consent. Which is all well and good, if you are a history major studying judicial nominees. But it matters not a whit. The rules have changed (literally and figuratively), advise and consent is now up-or-down votes, and the folks who appear to be in the driver seat of my party just don’t care:
Focus on the Family Action Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., issued the following statement today in response to the resignation of Sandra Day O’Connor from the U.S. Supreme Court:
“Today marks a watershed moment in American history: the resignation of a swing-vote justice on the Supreme Court and the opportunity to change the Court
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Tigger- dead.
Piglet- dead.
Pooh- Scared to death and in mourning:
‘Twas a sad weekend in Hundred Acre Wood.
Paul Winchell, the early TV pioneer best remembered for creating a string of cartoon voices, most famously Winnie the Pooh’s pal Tigger, died Friday. A day later, John Fiedler, the veteran stage and screen actor who voiced Piglet, passed away.
Somewhere Eeyore is even more glum than usual.
Winchell and Fiedler gave voice to the beloved characters in several animated Disney shorts and features, beginning with 1968’s Oscar-winning, franchise-launching short, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which also featured the vocal work of Sebastian Cabot as the narrator and Sterling Holloway as the honey-obsessed bear. (Cabot died in 1977; Holloway in 1992.)
Sad.
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Via Andrew Sullivan, here is a group of Islamofascists where a Nazi reference is worthy:
On the evening of July 11, 2004, Kristine Withers walked down 37th Avenue, a main drag in Jackson Heights, Queens, and passed what had become a familiar sight: a group of tables set up on the sidewalk by the Islamic Thinkers Society, a local group of militant Islamists. On the tables, copies of the Koran and books espousing the group
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Will I be breaking my moratorium on all things Michael Jackson if I point out that I thought the people gathered at the courthouse yesterday releasing doves and throwing confetti are, to an individual, sick in the head?
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Apparently the Jackson verdict is in. Here is my verdict:
I still don’t care.