Feedback to SteveAugust 11
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor walked down the steps from the Nigerian jet that flew him out of Liberia and onto a red carpet at the airport in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, where President Olusegun Obasanjo offered him asylum and protection from a United Nations-backed court that accuses him of war crimes. / Taylor claims if he had any more amnesty to war crimes persecution that he'd be American.
AOL Time Warner is considering dropping the AOL name from its corporate masthead. / I admit AOL sometimes sounds like a body part we all have, therefore in recognition of corporate-types everywhere might I suggest instead of America on Line they be called Beaming Services Rightaway.
Mexico has partially lifted its ban on Canadian beef imports. The move comes just three days after the States made a similar decision. / Mexico's decision comes with the advisory if you wash down the Canadian beef with Mexican water it won't last long enough in the digestive tract enough to matter.
Lung cancer specialists are meeting in Vancouver this week. They pronounced lung cancer was rare before cigarettes. / Meanwhile traffic specialists so far haven't found a correlation between traffic accidents and automobiles.
Legend Gregory Hines died of cancer in Los Angeles Saturday. / I question the tastefulness of the headline saying, "Hines tapped out."
Britney Spears after buying a sandwich stormed up to the counter in a rage after she found a long hair on the sandwich. She was offered her a replacement, though it was pointed out that the hair seemed to match hers exactly. Spears apologized. / Spears rightfully suggested real embarrassment would have been complaining about chicken breast in a non-chicken breast sandwich and...
DreamWorks is doing a Hollywood remake of Francis Veber's French comic hit. "Le Diner de Cons" ("The Idiot Game") retitling the film "Dinner for Schmucks". / Dinner for Schmucks, I was sure I already saw that at the raincoat cinema.
Mel Gibson, whose father is a fervent Holocaust denier, has hit back at critics who claim "The Passion," his self-financed film, is anti-Semitic. He's done so by fielding positive reviews by two Jewish writers. / Gibson said, "I'll prove myself not anti-Semitic even if it means hiring a few Hebe lawyers.
Today's birthdays include Reverend Jerry Falwell and wrestler-actor Hulk Hogan. / I'm wondering if wrestling fans would pay to see those two form a tag-team and wrestle their consciences.
Today in 1956, abstract painter Jackson Pollock died in an automobile accident in East Hampton. / It was a horrific accident as parts of Pollock were smeared all over.