And while we are on the subject of drinking, here’s Patton Oswalt: Southwest Airlines. No more. I'm done. That's it. "Ladies and gentlemen, there's a passanger with a young child…
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From the “No Shit, Sherlock” Department (via Stuff): Researchers in the United States have confirmed what many of us already know, that alcohol makes males more amorous and less sexually…
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Ion Fiscuteanu, a Romanian stage and film actor known to international audiences for his role in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, died early Saturday in Bucharest. He was 70. "He…
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Screenwriter Ronan Bennett criticises Martin Amis for his questionable positioning on present day inter-cultural relations (and other commentators for essentially giving him a free pass): As a novelist, Amis is…
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Russell Brand on his experience at sex addiction rehab: In that situation, however, alienated from my normal surroundings, I realised that the outer surface of what I thought was my…
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Of course it’s about oil (Jim Holt in the London Review of Books): It has been estimated, by the Council on Foreign Relations, that Iraq may have a further 220…
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