Boulton (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have the solution for MPs no longer allowed to employ their spouses and other family members: Employ someone else's. MPs could wife (or husband) swap - in the professional sense only, of course. So a Tory wife working for her husband could swap jobs with another working Tory wife - ditto for wives and husbands from the other parties. Problem solved?
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Reality television has taken hits recently for being, well, bad TV that can promote even worse behavior. Consider: Jon and Kate Gosselin, whose "Plus 8" future on TLC is uncertain because they can't stop bickering off camera. Then, of course, there's the whole Heene family ("Wife Swap") balloon-boy debacle that blew up in a maze of Mylar when, it is speculated, the Heenes wanted...
Coolest Gadgets (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I believe that hover technology is possible, and an episode of Mythbusters showed prototypes that were, at best, gigantic slow moving air hockey pucks. This is essentially what the Air Board is. I even saw a clip from an old Wife Swap episode which had the “Balloon Boy” family playing with hover technology, [...]
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
SLEAZE campaigners warned MPs yesterday not to "wife swap" to dodge a cash crackdown.
The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
by Michelle Gagnon This week marked the release of the third book in my series, THE GATEKEEPER. I thought that today I'd share the genesis of the idea for the book along with some fun facts I found out during my research. Brace yourselves- what you're about to read is even more frightening than a special edition of "Wife Swap" featuring the balloon people. So a little over a year ago, I was...
Troublesome Oration and Rowdy Yap (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
CHANNEL 4, the brains behind Wife Swap, bring you this special political edition of the show where the partners behind politicians are finally put in the spotlight. With politican partners facing the chop in Westminster village, we pick two sets from the most dysfunctional and different MPs and put them together. But will these controversial pairings bring the House down or will they get on like a...
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Prosecutors in Larimer County, Colorado are still determining whether to file charges against Richard and Mayumi Heene, the Wife Swap alums who have confessed to falsely reporting that their son was stuck in a flying experimental balloon, The Associated Press reports. The Heenes may face charges after sending authorities on a costly wild goose chase [...]
Red Lion Reports (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
To say that someone has gone up in a balloon, except when that person actually has gone up in a balloon, is to say that someone has gotten intellectually (defined here as the act of thinking, not the quality thereof) or emotionally carried away. So it was with Richard Heene, who was so up in a balloon about maintaining unworthy fame, or with the money that attends it, that he contrived the now-famous...
TV.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
...Speaking of former TV gods turned movie actors, the lovely and talented Ricky Gervais will be returning to the small screen as the host of the Golden Globes this January. It's the first time in almost 15 years that the show has even had a host; it's been emcee-less since John Laroquette and Janine Turner shared duties back in 1995. Awards show viewing is slipping, man! So I understand wanting to...
Eastcliff Richard (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
This article in yesterday's Mail on Sunday caught my eye. Apparently Roger Gale, the Conservative MP for North Thanet, is planning to swap his wife with another MP's to get around the new rules that ban family members from working for right honourable members. Here's an extract: 'It's ironic you can shack up with an MP, but if you are married to him or have a civil partnership you get the sack,' says...
Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
And, curiously, I agree with them : The wives of MPs, facing the sack as their husband’s parliamentary secretaries and office managers, are hatching plans to defy what they see as an unfair ban by swapping jobs with one another. They are preparing to apply for employment with each other’s spouses if Sir Christopher Kelly, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, goes ahead...
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The wives of MPs who work for their husband's as parliamentary secretaries and office managers, are hatching plans to defy what they see as an unfair ban by swapping jobs with one another. If Sir Christopher Kelly goes ahead next month with plans to ban MPs from employing relatives, the wives are preparing to apply for employment with each other's spouses. Sir Christopher's ban would affect about...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The wives, husbands and other family members currently employed at the tax-payers' expense plan to apply for jobs with other MPs as a way of dodging the guidelines expected to be recommended by Sir Christopher Kelly next month. Sir Christopher, the chairman of the committee on standards in public life, has been tasked with drawing up tough new rules to stop MPs abusing their allowances and expenses...
the field negro (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
There has been so much anger and animosity around here lately that I thought I would post a positive news story for once. And even though my man racism isn't taking time off from harassing me, (h/t Race Traitoress) I figured I would let him play by himself, tonight. Yep, tonight it's all about the positive from the field; I come to praise A-merry-ca, not put her down. So anyway, today is Sunday, and...
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
He spent 11 years on his own cacao plantation in Venezuela growing them beans in order bring the best chocolate ever to England. He is my new personal hero. AND. Let’s take a look at the goals I set up at the first of the month and how much I’ve accomplished (or not) so far. [...]
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labretter | 09/14/2009
A few rumours and good news from “Brothers and Sisters”. The good news is that they are shooting for the fifth season. ABC has renewed the contract for the serial, together with a long list of other shows: America’s Funniest Home Videos - The Bachelor - Dancing with the Stars - Desperate Housewives - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Grey’s Anatomy - Lost - Private Practice - Supernanny -Ugly Betty
abensonx7 | 11/19/2008
Wife Swap is not a competition or a contest. It is a reality show unlike any other, where the battlegrounds are the kitchens and living rooms, child-rearing is a subject of intense and heated debate, and the outcome isn’t a cash prize, but a couple’s opportunity to re-discover why they love each other and decided to marry in the first place.
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