As expected, Apple’s Steve Jobs introduced a touchscreen iPod Wednesday, one that looks almost exactly like the iPhone, but without the phone. Dubbed the iPod Touch, the device has a 3.5-inch full-color screen, Cover Flow music-browsing software and a photo library. It also has Wi-Fi wireless networking abilities, which could …
Read More »Using Wounded Warriors to Make Political Points
Using wounded warriors to make political points, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Take a look at this political cartoon, which ran in The Washington Post last Monday. It features an Iraq war veteran with missing limbs and text mocking Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. Well in …
Read More »How Not to Behave at a Funeral
Sadly, I’ve been to far too many funerals in my life. I’ve given far too many eulogies in my life too. So I think I’m somewhat qualified to remind folks about what funerals are all about. They’re not about the people looking at the box, but the person in that …
Read More »What to Do With Misguided Americans
Wendy, I’m withholding her last name, who lives in Michigan, wrote me an e-mail Wednesday night, saying: “O’Reilly, out of all the hate groups in America, you go after Ward Churchill (search) who speaks the truth. Have you read the real history of the USA? Attacks on this country, verbal …
Read More »Your Grrrs Aug. 11, 2005
Your Grrrs….. Jackie in NM: Grrr to Britney Spears for complaining about how hard married life is. Yes, it is hard being a newly married step mom, but come on. You at least have a maid to buy your diapers and a pool boy to walk your dog. The rest …
Read More »'Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie'
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: More Warrant-less Monitoring? It turns out the federal government has been secretly monitoring radiation levels and hundreds of Muslim sites in Washington and other American cities since 2002, all of that without a warrant. U.S. News & World Report says the FBI …
Read More »Former Protégé Vouches for Jacko
Michael Jackson Former Protégé Vouches for Jacko No matter who testifies next in Michael Jackson‘s alleged “prior acts” of sexual abuse mini-trial, the prosecution will have to deal with the fact that only one boy will show up to say he was molested many years ago by the pop star. …
Read More »Whitney's Wacky Outdoor Show
Whitney Houston|Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez|Mariah Carey Whitney’s Wacky Outdoor Show Whitney Houston‘s outdoor performance Sunday afternoon in the plaza at Lincoln Center was as wacky as anything the troubled singer has come up with yet. She arrived nearly one hour late, and the show — which Good Morning America taped …
Read More »Intel CEO: PC Sales Could Rise in 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The worldwide personal-computer market is pulling out of its slump quickly and could defy predictions by growing this year, Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday. Otellini’s comments at the Intel Developer Forum conference Tuesday were more bullish than many analysts have been. Market research firms …
Read More »NFL Standout Merriman Denies Choking Reality TV Star
SAN DIEGO – Star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman is practicing with the San Diego Chargers just more than 24 hours after being released from jail. Merriman was arrested early Sunday and accused of choking and restraining reality TV star Tila Tequila as she tried to leave his suburban home. He …
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