Richard Widmark's Wisdom

Richard Widmark dies at 93 - Yahoo! News:

A quiet, inordinately shy man, Widmark often portrayed killers, cops and Western gunslingers. But he said he hated guns.

"I know I've made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence," he remarked in a 1976 Associated Press interview. "I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns."

NCAA.com basketball

Not a very good experience so far in trying to watch an NCAA tournament game. The stream keeps getting interrupted.

RIAA Sued Again

The Associated Press: Woman to Record Industry: Stop Spying:

"The new lawsuit claims accuses the industry and MediaSentry of spying 'by unlicensed, unregistered and uncertified private investigators' who 'have illegally entered the hard drives of tens of thousands of private American citizens' in violation of laws 'in virtually every state in the country.'"

I Did Eliot Spitzer

>>For Ashley Dupre........
Maybe it's her parents fault for giving her a name straight out of Gone With The Wind.

I Did Eliot Spitzer

She gets money for her story, and maybe some celebrity, but he has to quit. Something doesn't compute.

I don't know why but I loved this sentence

Maybe it's the wine.

Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - theatre: Noises off: What has Ken done for the West End?:
"'We have a church hall, a cafe, some black-out curtains and a couple of lanterns and we're going to change the world.' With passion like his, I can quite believe it."