Saturday, February 4, 2006

Who's Sorry Now? 02-04-06

WE ARE. We want to apologize for the site being down for most of the day...Google's Blogger was down and all .blogspot sites were down for hours. The frustration is thick here on the bloggerforum. Thanks again for supporting the site. It's been less than 2 weeks since we launched and our traffic is growing by leaps and bounds.

Tell your friends.

So many apologies...so little time.

Who is apologizing, who should be apologizing, who doesn't have a clue!

1. We love this stuff. Mafia-like intrigue...famous people...sleeping with the fishes...truth is stranger than fiction. Somebody owes somebody an apology somewhere in here. Anthony Pellicano, former private detective to the stars, with very questionable work ethics, gets out of jail after 2 1/2 years and is immediately re-arrested. "According to prosecutors, it was Proctor (Pellicano's associate) who placed a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the windshield of Busch's car outside her home in June 2002. He also is accused of making a hole that resembled a bullet hole in the windshield and leaving a sign printed with the word "stop."" (read more here) Or join in the fun with the new EA Godfather game here.

2. Wow. What a difference a cartoon makes. Calls for cartoon apologies continue to pour in. Let's start counting the 1) calls for apologies; 2) the actual apologies for the "inflaming cartoons". Hey, weren't the Danish known for stuff like pastry and butter and modern furniture before all this? Now there's death threats, world conflict, controversy...my, oh my. (read more here)

3. We note that Saturday is traditionally a "slow news day". Notice that this hot news item was published in the WaPo on a Saturday. Hmmm....and we hope that somebody is going to be very, very sorry when this is all over. "Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame. " (read more here).

4. Scoop! They're ooooover. The much anticipated wedding of Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow is officially off. Darn. We liked these guys, too. Who's going to need to apologize here? (read more here)