Entries Tagged as 'News/Politics'
So, Tiger Woods finally emerged from seclusion and sex addiction rehab to speak to the media for the first time since his Thanksgiving car accident and all of the revelations of multiple marital infidelities. The announcement contained no real surprises other than Woods trying to quash rumors that wife Elin had hit him which led […]
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Some people have asked why I’ve done nothing on the Winter Olympics, currently running from one of The Indignant Wife’s favorite places in all the world – Vancouver, British Columbia? The honest answer (besides having been as busy as two people over the past week) is that I’m ambivalent. It honestly hasn’t been as captivating […]
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The Huffington Post reported the other day that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in a recent interview warned that the financial markets could react negatively if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke isn’t confirmed for a second term. Geithner suggested that the market would see a failed Bernanke confirmation as “very troubling,” but claimed that he was “very […]
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• Is there anyone more cursed than figure skater Nancy Kerrigan? Known best of course, for being knee-capped by a bodyguard for rival Tanya Harding, this week, her dad was beaten to death, apparently by her brother, who is being held in the murder. What a life this woman has had. • Tim Tebow has […]
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There’s nothing like a natural disaster, particularly one in a location filled with dark-skinned people to bring out the bigots and idiots. This week’s earthquake in Haiti is a disaster that has and will bring an immeasurable amount of death, pain, disease, homelessness, and suffering to one of the poorest countries in the world. Admittedly, […]
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President Obama gives credit for his happy marriage to ESPN’s SportsCenter. He says that he watches it everyday while working out and the First Lady says that she knows more about sports than she’d like… Well, that’s what’s helped work for me and the Indignant Wife. She is a sports fan and we used to […]
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Less than one week after failing to generate nearly enough votes to make Baseball’s Hall of Fame, Mark McGwire is finally coming clean (as it were). The beefy slugger sent a message to the Associated Press admitting what was painfully obvious: he used performance enhancing drugs. According to the statement, this is due to his […]
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