I guess you're talking about mass media touting Rock Stars as a vanishing phenomenon, but on HD TV, I see a rerun of a concert with Green Day playing on a humongous stage outdoors in front of what looks like 200,000+ people. I think it was part of a DVD called "Bullet in a Bible" The fans seemed to be treating Billy Joe and the band like Rock Stars.

Since Rowling has endorsed the construction of a Hogwarts and Harry Potter theme park in Florida (seriously), I can't see her doing that if the series ends with Harry's death. What a downer and not conducive to the popularity of the tourist attraction.

At least that's how I see it.

I saw the film and I was disappointed for a number of reasons. I don't blame the director or screenwriter, per se, HPATOOTP was a difficult book to adapt to the screen.

Things happened so quickly and were unexplained that it seemed unsatisfying. One thing left out, IIRC, is Delores' admission that she ordered the dementor attack on Harry and Dudley.

Also, they had Sirius hit by an Avedra Kedavra curse from Bellatrix, so all the mystery and doubt about the arch and curtain in The department of mystery was lost, along with the wonder as to whether Sirius was really dead (he was, even in the book, of course).

The best part was the visuals -- the production design of Hogwarts and the Ministery of Magic. The parts at Sirius' house in London were shortened and less interesting. Oh, well, as I said it was a difficult book to adapt to the screen.

I'm circumsized and I'm willing to admit that maybe sexual stimulation is even more pleasurable for uncircumsized men, but the pleasure I do receive has made me too much of a slave to sex as it is.

I might never get anything done if could get any more pleasure out of the various sex acts I do or are done to me.

I was in Las Vegas last week (I live in Los Angeles) visiting a friend out there from New York. He wasnted to see George Carlin, and I got tickets for him at the Orleans, a casino hotel known to attract a local redneck clientele. Now, maybe most in the audience were not the types to frequent the off strip Orleans, but Carlin received a good reception with laughs throughout for most of the material. A few looked a little disturbed at some of the anti-religious material.

I thought some of the material sounded very smug, especially Carlin making fun of people who are boring -- can't get them off the phone, or of how parents think "every kid is special." He got some mileage about someone looking at pictures of a kid with a head so big, "put it on YouTube, you'll get alot of hits with a kid with a head that big", or "put it on ebay - a European circus will snap him up in a second."

He spent a few minutes on Bush and politics, but not as much as I would have liked. I happen to know he has a family and kids he's loved and taken care of, so some of the material skewering families feelings about their children I didn't find all that funny.

He constantly teetered on the line between funny and just plain mean.

I don't really care if he votes or not.

Spitzer could have followed in the footsteps of "virtues czar" Bill Bennett and withdrawn the money to gamble in Atlantic City and use some of that to pay the prostitute. Nobody invstigated Bennett even after supposedly losing an average of $800K per year for ten years.

Will most health insurance policies pay for prophylactic mastectomies and the reconstructive surgeries for women with the BRCA gene mutation? It's a good question. Not all women are fortunate enough to be able to write for television and be able to pay a lot of out of pocket costs.

While I have heard David Letterman jokes about two girls in something called "The Hills," that's all I knew. I just found out by clicking on this article that the show is on MTV. And I live in Los Angeles county. Why is this being covered in Salon? Do the Salon.com and "The Hills" demographics overlap?

From an earlier post: Hillary Clinton is not the anticrist

I see the misspelling, but if Clinton gets the VP nomination and McCain picks the Florida Govenor to run for VP, maybe she can be the Anti-Crist. HaHa.

I just gave this some thought, and outside of tradition, there is absolutely no reason to have a primary in some "commonwealth" or territory whose citizens (while technically American) cannot vote in the general election. This goes for Guam and the Virgin Islands. At least, Democrats abroad, who get delegates can vote as residents of the state they may technically still live in.

I guess, there has never been such a close race, but for Puerto Rico to have so many delegates (more than many states and D.C.) is absurd. I read that P.R. actually has two completely independent political parties that are really what residents identify with. Obviously, the former first lady would have an advantage in a US possession far away from normal politics. But, more importantly, iot doesn't matter at all.