Hook-Ups, Turn-Downs and Ante-Upping: It's All Here
Now that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are making it official, the Royal Family gossip machine is cranking full-steam again. But apparently the buzz is mostly about the bride, not the bridegroom, as usual. Ms. Bowles, soon to be referred to as "Her Royal Highness Duchess of Cornwall," shows up four times in today's Key People lists (Nos. 5-6 among key people; Nos. 1-2 among burstiest people), while poor Charles is nowhere to be found except among news stories about the pending spring wedding.
Comedian and radio personality Al Franken has entered blog consciousness, too, but only because he's decided against running for a Senate seat in his home state of Minnesota. (Would Stuart Smalley consider doing campaign ads for him? Would his campaign slogan be: "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like Me!"?)
On the potential terrorist front, North Korea's admission that is has nuclear weapons to defend against a "hostile United States" captured at least 5 of today's top 40 links. Also being shared among top links is a New York Times sotry indicating that the Federal Aviation Administration had dozens of warnings in the six months leading up to the 9/11 attacks that terrorists were serious about using hijacked airplanes and suicide missions against the U.S. I've asked it before and I'll ask it again: Do we feel safer now?
And just in case no one says it first thing Molnday morning: Happy Valentine's Day!
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: With North Korea's Kim Jong Il turning up the heat, how do the world's hot-spot nations stack up now?
Posted by Sue MacDonald at February 11, 2005 02:48 PM
