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Still Poisonous?
Wigs...did I miss that...as for the bandannas and hats all the time, is he actually bald -- it seems when guys, esp. stars like this, are alays wearing them, it's because there is no hair under there -- look at Garth Brooks, for instance; without his big bad Steston, he looks like a middle-aged shoes salesmen (my apologies to all middle-aged shoe salesmen out there). I think one of the ladies' fathers asked him if he had hair... I watched the final episode with a friend in L.A. She was mad at me for being disappointed that Bret chose Ambre over Daisy. I adit it, I have a thing for Daisy. My friend said, "Some men want more than just a stripper!" On the other hand, Daisy was all trouble -- a liar, still living with her ex- in a onebedroom, did did not Ambre also lie about her age... Listen to me! The only reason why I watched this show (he says quietly) is because I am writing an essay about it, Flavour of Love, and other celebrity reality dating shows for a textbook/anthology called RATE ME, about such shows, and make-ocver shows, where people want to be rated against one another and the TV viewer's gaze and opinion on what is or is not attractive.— April 16, 2008 10:15 a.m.
San Diego Ad Writer Helps Locate Wanted Murderers
Codename "The Flyer".— April 15, 2008 2:19 p.m.
Talent Doesn't Equal Intelligence
I think O'Reilly went after Ludicrous...but he may have went after 50 Cent too. He likes to "go after" peeps.— April 14, 2008 9:35 p.m.
Man Found Guilty for Meth Mania Debt Collecting Slaying
Keep in mind that commissioners are hired by the elected judicial body to take up the slack of lower case matters. Commissioners are NOT elected officials; this is why if you have ever been in a court with one, they have you sign a paper waiving your rights to be seen before an elected judge. (I would advise to never sign such papers -- if someone is going to have authority over your life and make judgement calls that will affect you, they should be a duly elected person on the bench with that power, not an employee.) Commissioners do not have to answer to the voting public the way most judges in the city courts do; hence they will rule diferently than an elected official would. It is erroenous to call a commissioner "Your Honor." A commissioner has not earned that right and resepct. You will not see a lawyer worth his billable hours call a commissioner, "Your Honor," but simply, "Commissioner." Note -- these opinions are my own and not that of others here.— April 9, 2008 4:28 p.m.
Giving to Charity
What...you dated a cop...was she uniform or plainclothes...one time while in court for an injunction hearing, the female bailiff was flirting with me and asked me ot (I was much younger back then). Why not, I thought. She drank me under the table. She accosted me. It was a date from hell. I vowed never to date a woman in uniform again (hot Salvation Army soliders excepted), and that Red Cross nurse in Rwanda did not wear an actual uniform so that didn't count....— April 5, 2008 4:56 a.m.
Attempted Murder Over Pilfered Weed
I don't know about the actual physical addiction to THC, but like many things, there is a psychological addiction, the same way a person can be addcited to, say, playing video games, to watching American Idol, or to sex -- the "I can't live without it" thing, or "I can't face the day without a toke."— April 2, 2008 9:54 p.m.
Two Prostitutes
Since my living room is my office, and is half my OB apartment, I get to write off half the rent. I have not yet explored writing off my portion of my Los Angeles apartment that I co-share with a number of traveling and touring actors and Second Unit directors...it may niot be worth it...and they may wonder, "How do you afford two apartments in two cities," which I do not want to explain how it works to them... A professor friend of mine (the one in Borrego Springs) was once audited, and the audtor gave up when he came across a write-off for a rental of Steve Martin's THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS. "It's for my class on postmodern images," he said. The IRS guy could not wrap his brain around a man with two brains and the audit was terminated.— March 19, 2008 3:25 a.m.
Two Prostitutes
If she is smart, she never put her escort money into the bank. But the IRS could go after her in some way, if they so chose...unless, of course to appear "legit," her service deducts taxes for her. You pay taxes for writing gigs...tsk tsk...there are so many ways to write things off -- your internet bill, phone bill, ink cartridges, lighting bill, car gas, all these can be written off when used when working on a story and eraning income. I also wrte off half my rent since my apartment doubles as an office. I write off the air I breathe -- plus all postage, since I send my work out that way, and even netflix, since what I watch is, essentially, reserach. It's all legit, according to my CPA.— March 18, 2008 10:11 p.m.
Two Prostitutes
The reason why she is not being charged is that there is no "proof" she ever did anything technically illegal. We have no "proof" (recorings, videotaping, confessions by primatry sources -- i.e., Spitzer) she had sex for money. The only proof, flimsy at that, is that she worked for an escoprt service and she was paid to spend quality "time" with Spitzer, which is not illegal. Remember, Spitzer has not been indicted yet, and there are other politicans sweating it if they are on those phone taps. What is possibly a crime is that he paid money into a client's account for an outcall service being investigated for illegal prostitution. Remember, he had some $1500 of credit on the books. You don't pay the call girl $4500 for the night, you pay the service, and many rich men will put $10-20K down on their account and use it from time to time. Now, tips and gifts and bonuses to the call girl is between the provider and the client, and is set up that way so that it is hard to prove anything illegal occurred when the money can simply be seen as a gift -- you know the old call girl saying, "I need to pay my tution for this semester..." The only way she can be charged is if, which is unlikely, Spitzer testifies that he paid her for sex (as part of a plea deal), then she can be chraged with prostitution. Right now, we don't know what really happened between the two, although we can guess and surmize -- she could say she just engaged in phone sex (which they did) which is not illegal; or she spanked him; or she just went to dinner with him as arm candy, none of which is an illegal quid pro quo. What has destroyed Spitzer is his association with the service, that he was a client, and that he COULD be charged if charges are filed agaisnt the service. But he did not make a lot of friends so his enemies within the system saw this as a way of taking him down. Had he made the "right" friends in our corrupt system, it would have been brushed under the rug in exchange for future favors. This is simply part of our fascinating pop culture when a 22-year-old hooker/wannabe singer can topple a state government and become a superstar millionaire for it. Instead of condemning it, revel in the irony of our times.— March 18, 2008 12:26 p.m.
Stunner: JP Morgan Buys Bear Stearns for $2 a Share. Earlier in Last Year, It Sold for $159. Federal Reserve To Subsidize Purchase
Yes, I noticed. It opend arund $4 today, went to to $8 for a while, but I bought 50 @ $6. Why not. I'm curious to see what will happen...— March 18, 2008 11:26 a.m.