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John C. Reilly has just told his new roommate Will Ferrell that he must never ever touch Reilly's precious drum kit. So as soon as Reilly is out of the house, Ferrell tiptoes into the sanctum, opens his pants and rubs his scrotum on the surface of the snare drum. Taking revenge on a hated rival: it's a moral imperative for great warriors, 8-year-old boys, silverback gorillas and the heroes of modern comedies. Ferrell's nut-job is also about as close as any male character in Step Brothers comes to sexual release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step Brothers: "Oh, Grow Up!" "Never!" | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...Since then, flag imagery has been intricately tied to moments of crisis or conflict. Over the past four decades, Kit Hinrichs, one of the nation's top graphic designers, has collected more than 5,000 pieces of stars and stripes-related memorabilia. He says the flag lapel pins in his collection don't really date back before mid-century. "I don't think it was a common thing for men and women to wear before the Second World War," he says. "I certainly have jewelry from before then with flags on it - cufflinks and stick pins and tuxedo buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Flag Lapel Pin | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...Istie told police that one visitor who dropped by her home was MILF commander Mokasid Delna. That relationship is important, says Kit Collier, an Australian political scientist who recently compiled a report on combating terrorism in Southeast Asia for the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank. "Delna was in the same Afghan training camps in 1991 as Umar Patek, making him a key ally," Collier says. Zamboanga police chief Col. Lurimer Detran has told the media that Salahudin Hassan, who carried out the bombing at Edwin Andrews Air Base, is a relative of Delna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Manhunt | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

Housing counselors wince at these kinds of companies, the ones that tell people it's O.K. to simply "walk away." For $995, You Walk Away sends its Walk Away Protection Plan & Kit, which explains the laws regarding foreclosure, debt collection and bankruptcy. It's a nice compilation but nothing you couldn't find online. Customers also get one consultation with an attorney, a tax evaluation and, for an extra $39 a month, a "credit repair" service--but pretty much the only thing it can do is erase inaccuracies in your credit report. What is real--and what is very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Away From Your Mortgage | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...Missouri Senator Kit Bond, the ranking Republican on the committee, furiously wrote in his minority opinion, that the report was a blatant attempt by Democrats to politicize what turned out to be nothing more than bad intelligence on the part of the C.I.A. "We have been forced to waste countless man-hours to show what we and the American people already knew four years ago, that policymakers' statements turned out to be wrong after the war because the statements were based on flawed intelligence. The Committee's Phase I report, which investigated that intelligence failure and explained how it happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer: Senate Report on Prewar Intelligence | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

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