Mommies dearest: &#39;Spanglish&#39; plays havoc with our sympathies (**1 ...
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Maybe it was just too much to hope that writer-director James L. Brooks could create a third Class A pill with high entertainment value.
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&#39;Spanglish&#39; has all the trappings of a holiday movie, but it never finds a rhythm, its actors founder and it looks terrible.
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If you&#39;ve ever suffered through a case of the whirlies, then you have a good sense of last night&#39;s MTV Video Music Awards.
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Comment is free: Carol Nahra: We were unlucky in the tragic hand dealt to our son, but blessed to have had British healthcare.
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Tycho: The recently conducted Xfire chat has now been collated into this easy to digest transcript. In case you wanted to digest it. In addition, the latest page of our insane Prey project has now gone online. Just click the link on the left, for "We Have Visitors."  Also! Your mom is trying to get a hold of you. You should give her a call.(CW)TB
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Worming through users' affection A "malicious widget" on Facebook is leaving love-hungry social networkers feeling crushed.â¦
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He had some Wheaties this morning for sure. My advice... 1. Remember to have fun. 2. We're all bozos on this bus. 3. We're all barking farting chihuahuas. 4. I make shitty software and so do you. 5. It's even worse than it appears. 6. You never learn anything hanging with the same people. 7. Thank heaven for little girls. (A repeat of #6.) 8. It's later than you think. 9. It's not like anyone gets out of this alive.
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&#39;Surviving Christmas&quot; wants to make you feel jolly and ready to deck the halls, but it left me with humbug on my mind. After glossing over its meaner moments and its tendency to celebrate
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Mother tongue menaced by 'product-set deep dives' Readers of the Daily Telegraph have got themselves into a bit of a tizz over alleged abuses our our beloved English language.â¦
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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Ligaya Turmelle over at PHPWomen has posted on their 1st birthday.  In that one year we have set up this site, been to 2 conferences sending 2 people who would not of normally been able to go, handed out t-shirts at those conferences, grown a member list of 250+ strong and made some really strong connections to the PHP Community as a whole.  She continues to give thanks to many of the PHPWomen contributors, members, and supporters that have helped in these past twelve months. Happy Birthday PHPWomen!
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I&#39;m mad at people who think it&#39;s funny to taunt black soccer players. I&#39;m saddened that a small group - I hope it&#39;s just a small group but I have my doubts â-f stupid fans are ruining, what
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Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families?
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Oh my goodness! The shrieks, the howls, the derision, the guffaws! How many spleens have been vented in the last week on something that hasn&#39;t happened and might not happen?
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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The mother of a soldier whose body was found mutilated in Iraq sobbed with her cheek against his sealed, flag-shrouded coffin Tuesday, looking at the crucifix above it and asking repeatedly in Spanish, &quot;Why? ... Why my son?&quot;
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.