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One of the benefits of not having to go to an office is being able to watch great television moments – like yesterday’s takedown of Star Jones by Barbara Walters – live in the comfort of my apartment. I was on the phone with Fedex trying to track a lost package and watching ABC […]

Over on MSNBC.Com, instead of devoting precious bandwidth to flood victims and other whiners, a “Superman Who’s Who” is being offered up, to help guide the uninitiated through the complicated morass that is the new “Superman” movie.
With one click, a window pops up, and you can research such obscurities as “Lois Lane” and “Jimmy Olsen” […]

In case you let your subscription to “Sadly Lingering Fame Monthly” lapse, you might have missed the fact that former phenom, budding rockmunculus Axl Rose bit a security guard on the leg in Sweden this week, got arrested, and was subsequently released after paying a fine plus damages (he got off easy - Norway’s Bite […]

Severe rains last night toppled an elm tree next to the White House that has been standing there for over 140 years. It’s actually one of the trees engraved on the back of the 20 dollar bill. Take a bill out–Look at it! And yes, it’s a “tree,” not a Mason Symbol encoded to hypnotize […]

From CNN:
U.S. senators on Sunday called Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s national reconciliation plan a positive step but expressed concerns about its “amnesty” provision. Al-Maliki’s plan, announced earlier in the day, would extend an olive branch to some Iraqi militants and grant the phased release of 2,500 detainees from Iraqi prisons.
This could leave the […]

The creator of Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island, and Tori Spelling was 83. Upon entering heaven, he demanded that all the angels get “more jiggle” and quickly divided them into “blonde ones,” “smart ones” and “other ones.”

Come in, sit, have a bite, take your shoes off! Okay, maybe put your shoes back on. Or at least change your socks or something, for godsakes. But anyway, welcome!
This here is the all-new turbocharged multi-authored Fanatical Apathy. A lot, as you can see, has changed. A lot remains […]

… hello New Hotness!
The wait is almost over. While you sleep tonight, the industrious, cheerful, but somewhat smirky and satirical elves that run Fanatical Apathy are going to shut the site down, throw a drop cloth over it, and when you wake up on Saturday morning…
A whole new Fanatical Apathy will be born.
That’s right, in […]

Washington (FA wire) - Washington was purged of all corruption today, as former Bush administration official David Safavian was convicted of being the man responsible for all the dirty dealings. According to White House sources, Safavian was clearly the kingpin of a shady network connected to influence-peddler Jack Abramoff.
“It’s a real relief,” said one administration […]

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Louisiana Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed into law a ban on most abortions, which would be triggered if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 ruling legalizing the procedure, a spokesman said on Saturday.
The ban would apply to all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest, except when the mother’s […]