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...happening to Spears right now is happening not for our amusement, but to her detriment." Rosie O'Donnell posted a sympathetic haiku on her blog, saying "britney... my heart breaks; i want to smash those photographers; with something heavier; than an umbrella." A Google search pulls up the phrase "Leave Britney Alone" on 129 blogs and there are multiple online petitions to get the paparazzi off Spears' back. Kristin Scott of Bloggingbaby.com told her readers she understood Spears' behavior as a mom, writing that, "There have been days I've wanted to hole up in the basement with...
...your self-esteem is bolstered by disparaging peers who are proud of their celibacy, consider finding a new way to gain personal confidence. When you learned the phrase “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” in kindergarten, you were really learning an important life lesson that rings all the more true when you’re on the receiving end of an unfunny joke...
...were once considered the least cool songs in American music history. Now, knowing the riffs is the mark of a true hipster. We changed our ringtones to reflect how awesomely uncool we were. And yet, we knew, if anybody tried to judge us, we could always use the safety phrase, “We’re doing this ironically.” A revolution had begun.“Vice” magazine, practically a hipster bible, has described Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing?...
...country from its list of terrorist-sponsoring states, end its trade sanctions and eventually enter talks to normalize relations. Meanwhile, Pyongyang agreed "to discuss all of its nuclear programs," including any stockpiles of plutonium already gleaned from the Yongbyon reactor. At her Feb. 13 press conference, Rice emphasized the phrase "all nuclear programs." She says the U.S. and its partners want the North to dismantle both its plutonium-based weapons program and a suspected uranium-enrichment program. "Everybody understands what 'all' means," she says. But Pyongyang, after first admitting to the uranium program when confronted about...
...movie.” Although Saget wrote most of the film’s dialogue, he says much of the narration is improvised, like when Jackson says, “It’s getting as cold as a welldigger’s asshole.” Could the phrase be the next “I have had it with these mother-fucking snakes on this mother-fucking plane”? Maybe not, but Saget hopes the film will appeal to a wide audience. However, he knows his target demographic: “If you?...