This is a new column I am starting devoted specifically to popular songs and how they are or how they may be used as background music for strippers....

South Africa's chances of qualifying for the 2008 African Cup of Nations finals will suffer a severe setback if they lose in Zambia on Sunday...

I loved it. It was cool of Gylenhaul to immediately address the elephant in the room... the whole gay thing. I thought he handled it beautifully, by doing the gayest possible bit - a broadway tune in drag...

The diary below was originally posted in my blog, the and adapted for Political Cortex. Allow me to digress from the usual politics and current events topics of my blog writing to acknowledge the anniversary of John Lennon's death...

AP - Claude Luter, a horn player who hobnobbed with Louis Armstrong and was one of France s most celebrated jazz musicians, has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 83...

Posted: 2:52 PM- The Jazz still have 16 players on their roster, and plan to keep it that way for another couple of days, coach Jerry Sloan said before directing practice Friday morning...

1. he has it all backwards! first you become the star and then, you become a train wreck Hey Simon, straighten the guy out will ya 2. hey I live 2 blocks from this guy and he's really nice so f*** you tmz! 3...