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- They think they get it …
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MY five-year-old daughter is now a Kung Fu Master. Or at least so she thinks. We saw Kung Fu Panda the other day, and immediately afterwards, with the speed it takes to pluck a pebble from the palm of a master, she was showing me all...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- Sense of Adventure Rests in Primitive Brain Region
- Your sense of adventure comes from a primitive area of the brain called the ventral striatum, British researchers say. Scientists from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London used fMRI to track brain activity in volunteers and found the ventral striatum was activated when participants chose unfamiliar...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- W. Jordan pair will focus on McCain puppet
- A West Jordan couple have decided to abandon their idea for a sock monkey modeled after black presidential candidate Barack Obama. Elizabeth and David Lawson say they will instead be setting up a Web site to sell a Johnny McSock Politically Plush Toy, modeled after candidate John...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Utah couple in a league of their own
- I know it's still early, I know there are many months left to go and the presidential race is bound to inspire countless more bouts of complete loss of perspective, but I'd like to propose that we nonetheless go ahead and award the 2008 Marie "Let Them Eat Cake" Antoinette...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- That awful show was 'Sheriff Lobo'
- Question: My son and I are remembering a sitcom from the 1980s but can't recall the title. It was about a sheriff who had two deputies. One was tall, blond and smart kind of, and the other was nearly bald, stubby and always getting into trouble. Can you help us...
- Articles 2008-06-21
- Casting aspersions on Poles
- Sir: It was with deep disappointment that I read Rachel Johnson's article. The illustration accompanying it depicts a gaunt, shabbily dressed young woman in a T-shirt with 'Polska' emblazoned on it chatting on a mobile phone while neglecting a child in her care. To drive the message home the article...
- Articles 2008-06-21
- Monkey is just a molehill
- Your editorial "Scrap the sock monkey" is a good example of how the media make "mountains out of molehills." The enterprising couple David and Elizabeth Lawson came up with an idea to make money on a current national issue and created the Sock Obama Doll. Now the NAACP and a...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- MONKEY BUSINESS
- Despite a long campaign, the 76-year-old star of 'Tarzan' won't get a place on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Has Cheeta been cheated? By Guy Adams It's a hard life, being a show-business chimpanzee. All that cross-dressing. Those endless cups of tea. Then, if you're really unlucky, you...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- Is Obama doll still being sold?
- At first glance, it may seem a West Jordan couple have bucked their critics and continued to sell sock monkey dolls modeled after Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. However, while David and Elizabeth Lawson have said they're considering moving forward with the Obama doll, it's not clear...
- Articles 2008-06-19
- Scrap the sock monkey
- When the West Jordan couple who planned to make a sock monkey in the likeness of Barack Obama apologized and announced they had canceled the idea, they blamed their own naivete and said they hadn't intended to hurt or anger anyone. And while it may be difficult to believe anyone...
- Articles 2008-06-19
- British soul singer Duffy scoops award for 'Mercy'
- LONDON AFP — British singer Duffy's single "Mercy" has been named song of the year in the annual awards by Mojo magazine, while the Sex Pistols and Led Zeppelin were also honoured. The Welsh soul singer was beaten to the best album award by Nick Cave and the...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Pop
- FIVE O'CLOCK HEROES Industry LONDON ** You can't help feeling that Antony Ellis has made something of a Faustian pact with a PR devil. The Northampton-born, New York- dwelling singer has been plugging away for a number of years to little effect with his band, Five O'Clock...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Creators of Obama monkey shift gears
- The Obama sock monkey may not be shelved. Early Monday, it appeared that a Barack Obama sock monkey created by a West Jordan couple and criticized as racially offensive was never actually going to be distributed. Both the contracted manufacturer, Binkley Toys Inc., and TheSockObama LLC apologized...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Darrow, Bryan meet in modern-day mediation at Maryland State Bar
- H.L. Mencken was probably rolling over in his Baltimore grave Friday afternoon. The legendary "Scopes Monkey Trial," the 1925 case of a Tennessee teacher charged with teaching evolution, was instead settled through a mediation session at the Maryland State Bar Association's annual meeting. Mencken might have lost...
- Articles 2008-06-16
- Solar Monkey™ Wins Project Valued in Excess of $20 Million to Provide 3 Megawatts of Solar Power to Robison Family Trust
- Large Commercial Property Owners Begin Adopting Clean Energy IRVINE, Calif. -- Solar Monkey[TM], a national solar energy systems provider, today announced that it will be retrofitting 650,000 sq ft of the Robison Family Trust portfolio to accommodate rooftop solar electricity generation. Preliminary engineering has sized the systems to...
- Articles 2008-06-16
- The big match? That's Scolari v the English Press
- THIS is no ordinary spat between Les Rosbifs and the Cheese- Eating Surrender Monkeys. This is personal! Michel Platini, the UEFA president, has the air of a man who has seen his wife being swept away in a stretch limo owned by...
- Articles 2008-06-15
- ROCK
- Wild Beasts Limbo, Panto DOMINO RECORDS Wild Beasts are the next bright hope from the record label that gave the world Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys. They're impossibly young, wilfully operate outside the mainstream and call to mind the falsetto frippery of the Associates, and nothing would...
- Articles 2008-06-15
- Now Gordon keeps right on to the end of the road
- BROWN'S CHOICE Goodbye 'Mardy Bum': PM's new best song says, 'Let your heart be strong' "Every road through life is a long, long road, filled with joys and sorrows too" - and boy, do some Prime Ministers know that better than others. You...
- Articles 2008-06-15
- The big match? That's Scolari v the English Press
- THIS is no ordinary spat between Les Rosbifs and the Cheese- Eating Surrender Monkeys. This is personal! Michel Platini, the UEFA president, has the air of a man who has seen his wife being swept away in a stretch limo owned by...
- Articles 2008-06-15
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