A British Airways passenger was given the fright of his life when he was joined in his First Class sleeper bed by the gaunt, skeletal, and terrifyingly nude form of walking dead actress Lara Flynn Boyle.
The man, having once suffered a nervous breakdown on a previous flight, is said to be recovering in a London psychiatric hospital where he is being treated for trauma. A flight attendant said he was overhead shouting, “There’s something in my bed! There’s…some….THING…in my BED!!!”
The owner of a company that is forcing workers to quit smoking or quit their jobs is also claiming he’d like to fire people for being too fat. Howard Weyers, owner of Weyco Inc., a company that handles insurance claims, says, “If you don’t want to take the test, you can leave. I’m not controlling their lives; they have a choice whether they want to work here.”
Other requirements Weyers would like to enact for his workforce:
• 8 hours minimum sleep per night
• Unmarried employees must use condoms for all sexual activity (and they will check up on you)
• Posted speed limits must be observed by all commuters
• Daily flossing
• Mandatory consumption of Prozium
Shatnerian: July, 1971 – April, 2048.
It says the cause will be a heart attack but I can’t help but notice that I died during tax season.
Remember those knowledge-challenged parents who didn’t want their kids to learn about S-E-X that K. mentioned last month?
Well, somebody finally decided that they didn’t want a small group of narrow-minded parents to dictate what children learn in NB. An AIDS support grouping has met with the NB government to urge them to implement the programme which, among other such scandalous things, admits that masturbation exists. Good on ‘em. I get the sense that the government is keen to hear from people in favour of the programme so I guess that’s good.
Mind you, they still won’t pay for your abortion.
UPDATE: And, true to form, it looks like the Tories have caved.
Nice episode of The Fifth Estate last night. The subject of the programme was how public discourse has suffered in the last five or so years with the rise of 24 hour news channels, particularly Fox News and its hosts. There wasn’t a whole lot discussed that wasn’t known already – that conservative media was winning the public relations war over “liberal” media.
There was, however, a telling exchange between host Bob McKeown and conservative blowhard Ann Coulter. Ms. Coulter makes her living by going on debate shows and making such statements as We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity and that Canada is “lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.” It’s all theatrics and actual journalists would be wise not to take her seriously. In her interview with Bob McKeown, she made the claim that Canada should have gone to war in Iraq because we have fought with them in past conflicts, including Vietnam. UPDATE: This is the actual transcript of the exchange:
Coulter: “Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam – was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?”
McKeown interrupts: “Canada didn’t send troops to Vietnam.”
Coulter: “I don’t think that’s right.”
McKeown: “Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.”
Coulter: “Indochina?”
McKeown: “Uh no. Canada …second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No.”
Coulter: “I think you’re wrong.”
McKeown: “No, took a pass on Vietnam.”
Coulter: “I think you’re wrong.”
McKeown: “No, Australia was there, not Canada.”
Coulter: “I think Canada sent troops.”
McKeown: “No.”
Coulter: “Well. I’ll get back to you on that.”
McKeown tags out in script:
“Coulter never got back to us — but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam.”
(The link to the exchange can be found here and it also includes a video.)
It was a little refreshing to see someone who relies on theatre to make herself famous being taken down a peg in an actual journalistic setting. It wasn’t a malacious encounter and McKeown was courteous and polite to Coulter throughout. But when she didn’t have Fox News to back her up and she had to make a position in a one-on-one setting, she crumbled.
It gives you a pretty good idea why the type of broadcasting that Fox News practices is as popular as it is.
