I don’t know if these are real – I haven’t had (or, arguably, taken) the time to check them out, but even if they aren’t, this is definitely worth a read! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald’s… Read More The Stella Awards
I wasn’t too sure about this when I first heard about it, but it’s pretty good: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGz1Ajg7QU]
You know that, with a title like that, things are not going to be good. It was a good ploy to make viewers sit tightly in their chairs for this particular episode – and as I sat down, clutching my little foam stress-relief basketball, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was just a cheap… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Episode 16: Things fall apart
There seems to have been a surge of interest in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, at least as reflected by a steady increase in the number of people who have read my post about the subject (the post can be found here). This got me interested in checking out what’s new with the Campaign.… Read More Dove Campaign for Real Beauty: The Dove Sleep-Over for Self-Esteem
Just as I was seriously starting to wonder if the writers had decided to just drop the Christina/baby angle comes a great episode from Ugly Betty that culminates in quite a Wilhelmina-worthy birth of her child. And you all know how critical I have become lately of both Ugly Betty and Heroes, so this is… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Episode 15: There’s no place like Mode
Now that I have gotten the mega-massive ready frenzy out of the way, I’m slowly catching up on my TV shows, including, of course, Ugly Betty. Episode 14, The Courtship of Betty’s Father, was definitely another fun episode, but it was a little lukewarm. I still haven’t figured out if it’s the show that has… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Episode 14: The Courtship of Betty’s Father
It’s funny how some of us tend to limit the concept of justice to black & white. I brought up the article below during a recent conversation with friends and they were appalled by Steve Maich’s point of view that perhaps the just thing to do would be to let Black go free, even if… Read More From MacLean’s: Why it’s time to set Conrad Black free
Words that ought to be in the dictionary, ’08 edition aniston verb the inability to just let it go already: Twelve years after the championship game, Roger still anistoned that untimely fumble. blagojevich noun 1. one who commits a crime with comic ineptness: That blagojevich robbed a bank without a mask—or a gun! 2. a grown… Read More Scott Feschuk’s suggestions for 2008 dictionnary updates
Amidst the dire forecasts of a global economy headed for the toilet, contrasting against the heart-warming election of an African-American to the United States presidency, Christmas 2008 was a particularly hard one for some of the earliest victims of the current economic turmoil. But there is always a way to turn anything into something positive,… Read More A look back at Christmas 2008
Dear Sahar’s blog readers; You might have noticed that I haven’t posted anything new in the last 9 days – and if you haven’t noticed, I prefer not to know. In any case, there is an excellent reason for that – I have been catching up on my reading, which, you have probably guessed, is… Read More An apology… Or a confession?