Christian Bale Attacked By Chinese Guards
“While trying to visit a Chinese activist, Christian Bale is attacked by government guards—even though he’s starring in a movie partly funded by the Chinese government.”
Christopher Hitchens and The Ruined Table
Vogue editor Anna Wintour wrote this touching article for Slate.com in which she recounts a few of her last memories with the late Christopher Hitchens: “There was nothing that Hitch liked to do more than talk—and all the better if talking meant arguing. Hitch didn’t care if he agreed with you or not; In fact, he’d be contrary just for the hell of it. Yet no matter how combative he got, it did nothing to diminish our—my—love and affection for him.”
Mysterious Stranger Paying Off Christmas Layaways At K-Mart
“According to the AP, [a] miracle’s occurring all over the American heartland—’Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Montana,’ as well as Missouri and Illinois. What happens, quite simply: a family, unable to scrape together enough cash, puts some items on layaway. Maybe Christmas toys for the kids. When they return to K-Mart to make a payment, they find that part or all of their balance has been paid off by a mysterious stranger. A Christmas miracle.”
“OK guys, we’ve cleaned out the refrigerator,” says a young Ashley Olsen at the beginning of this classic chop-and-screwed YouTube clip. “I think we are just about ready to build the perfect pizza.” And on that pizza? Egg foo young, fish, fried chicken, chocolate sauce and guacamole. Oh, children.”
