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January 2008
• 01/01/08 So what happened on New Year's Eve?
• 01/01/08 K-Fed, Paris, Now an Item?
• 01/01/08 Topsy-turvy poll results keep flowing
• 01/01/08 Letterman Snags Robin Williams for Return Show
• 01/01/08 Jonas Brothers Tour Sold Out
• 01/01/08 Black Tuesday for cliches
• 01/02/08 Eddie Murphy Ties the Knot
• 01/02/08 Pakistan Postpones Elections - Conspiracy Theories Rampant
• 01/02/08 They feel your pain (especially if you're white)
• 01/02/08 Romance Interrupted
• 01/03/08 Mike Huckabee Joins Jay Leno for Late Night Star's Return
• 01/03/08 Britney Spears Attorney's Quit after Latest No Show
• 01/03/08 Justice Department Initiates Investigation into Destruction of CIA Tapes
• 01/04/08 Spears Taken from Home on Stretcher
• 01/04/08 Another Sport, Another Drug Scandal
• 01/04/08 Senior Lawmaker Warned CIA Not to Dispose of Tapes
• 01/04/08 One down, 49 (or so) to go: On Republican Party results from Iowa
• 01/04/08 One down, 49 (or so) to go: On Democratic party results from Iowa
• 01/07/08 Clemens v. McNamee
• 01/07/08 New Hampshire over the Hill(ary)?
• 01/07/08 Spears Should Want No Part of Doctor Phil
• 01/07/08 Two Horrific Murders Dominate the News
• 01/07/08 Search Wikia Makes Debut Today
• 01/08/08 Bad news, bears
• 01/08/08 Spears Family Will Not Appear on Dr. Phil
• 01/08/08 Autism Not a Result of Mercury Preservative in Vaccine?
• 01/08/08 Bipartisan Forum Focuses on Ending Washington Gridlock
• 01/08/08 Baby Where Art Thou?
• 01/08/08 Mmm...Steamy
• 01/08/08 Early votes in: Clinton finishes disappointing fourth with no votes
• 01/09/08 Posh Spice Ain't so Posh after All
• 01/09/08 Mac is Back
• 01/09/08 Hillary Back in the Race
• 01/09/08 Very Wild Things
• 01/10/08 Good News and Bad News for Radiohead
• 01/10/08 Spears Ditches Family and Talk of Intervention
• 01/10/08 Cedar-Sinai Cited for Medical Mix Up Involving Quaid Twins
• 01/11/08 Who wants to read DA Rosenthal's email?
• 01/11/08 Military Authorities Clear US Army Officer
• 01/11/08 Writer's Strike Kills Globes, Oscars Next?
• 01/11/08 Skating Star Dead from Possible Overdose
• 01/11/08 Richardson: "It doesn't get any better than that."
• 01/14/08 Obama's Prior Drug Use Again Raised on Campaign Trail
• 01/14/08 Will Spears Show for Scheduled Court Appearance?
• 01/14/08 Atonement Takes Golden Globe for Best Drama
• 01/15/08 Kick The Bucket: The Movie
• 01/15/08 European Union v. Microsoft. Again.
• 01/15/08 Send In The Blood
• 01/15/08 Steroid Mess Reaches into Music Industry
• 01/15/08 Britney Spears Barred from her Children
• 01/15/08 Obama Tries to Walk the Talk
• 01/16/08 Judge Chastises O.J. Simpson, Doubles Bail
• 01/16/08 Mitt Romney Win Throws GOP Race Wide Open
• 01/16/08 Introducing Matthew McConaughey, New Dad
• 01/16/08 "The Client" Star Brad Renfro is Dead
• 01/17/08 Sun ponies up a cool billion for MySQL
• 01/17/08 Cough medicine not for babies: Let the spin begin!
• 01/17/08 Two Weeks of Marriage Enough for Eddie Murphy
• 01/17/08 Coroner Rules Ike Turner Death Result of Cocaine Overdose
• 01/17/08 I See Dead Kids
• 01/18/08 American Idol Losing its Luster?
• 01/18/08 Britney Spears Obit Already Prepared by AP
• 01/18/08 Brits to Review Plane Crash
• 01/21/08 Chuck Norris calls McCain old, kettle black
• 01/21/08 Obama says Bill lied, fact-check websites do great business
• 01/21/08 John Stewart, Singer, Songwriter is Dead
• 01/21/08 Oliver Stone Set to Put President Bush Story to Big Screen
• 01/22/08 Oscar Nominees Revealed
• 01/22/08 Oscar Nominations to be Announced Today
• 01/22/08 Britney Spears Sits for Deposition
• 01/22/08 Possible US Recession Impacting Global Markets
• 01/23/08 Heath Ledger Found Dead
• 01/23/08 Bush Administration Practices Reduce Padilla Sentence
• 01/23/08 When Words Attack
• 01/24/08 Where (almost) no tourist has gone before
• 01/24/08 Busta Rhymes Beats Latest Rap - Sort Of
• 01/24/08 Internet Abuzz over John Gibson's Heath Ledger Comments
• 01/24/08 Democrat tit-for-tat and Bill, too!
• 01/24/08 Mayor of New Yaliforniflorivania stumbles in polls
• 01/25/08 Mom Fiction
• 01/25/08 Bigfoot Takes Up Residence on Mars
• 01/25/08 K-Fed's Attorney Quizzes Spears Companion
• 01/28/08 Senator Kennedy Set to Endorse Obama
• 01/28/08 Screen Actors Guild Awards Held Despite Strike
• 01/29/08 eBay: Where to find those popular John C. Calhoun items
• 01/29/08 Massachusetts mulls milder marijuana law
• 01/29/08 Condoleezza Rice for Vice President?
• 01/29/08 Police Make Another Appearance at Britney Spears' Home
• 01/29/08 A Bad Dream
• 01/29/08 This Just In...Giant Thing Is Attacking NYC...
• 01/30/08 The Tragic Death of Christian Brando
• 01/30/08 A Late Honor for Roy Orbison
• 01/31/08 And Then There Were Two
• 01/31/08 Spears Again Take to Hospital By Ambulance
February 2008
• 02/01/08 Spears in LA Psych Ward
• 02/01/08 Clinton, Obama Spar Cordially in Key Democratic Debate
• 02/03/08 James Spears Takes Charge of Troubled Daughter
• 02/04/08 Faces of Dreck
• 02/04/08 Judge Rules Vick May Keep Signing Bonus
• 02/05/08 Pimp C Death Ruled Accidental
• 02/05/08 Spears Fails to Regain Control of Personal Finances
• 02/06/08 Spears Parents Paint Ugly Portrait of Sam Lufti
• 02/06/08 Mac is More than Back, Obama & Clinton Race Unsettled
• 02/06/08 Google serves up Postini
• 02/06/08 Don't bogart that joint, Toothless!
• 02/06/08 Super Tuesday: Notes on the New England Patriots -- I mean, Democratic campaign
• 02/06/08 Super Tuesday: Notes on the Republican race
• 02/07/08 Revisiting Shawshank
• 02/07/08 Respected Television Corresponent John McWethy Dead in Ski Accidentjohn mcwethy
• 02/07/08 Stimulus Package Stalls
• 02/07/08 UN to Kenya: Have coffee, talk
• 02/07/08 Magellan Clouds flip Milky Way the bird
• 02/07/08 Nobody expects (the return of) the Spanish Inquisition
• 02/08/08 Clemensgate in Washington: Day Two
• 02/08/08 Well, bang goes that solution to global warming
• 02/08/08 Defining a global addiction
• 02/08/08 Famous Hollywood Madam Fleiss Arrested
• 02/08/08 Brits Rule Blast Killed Bhutto
• 02/10/08 Faltering Clinton Shakes Up Campaign
• 02/11/08 Anonymous a bit less so
• 02/11/08 Free elections in Burma someday soonish. Really. They promise.
• 02/11/08 Obama takes Maine, too (Are his supporters slackers?)
• 02/12/08 Lost In Tokyo
• 02/12/08 On the yellow brick road to medical marijuana
• 02/12/08 Marisa Miller Graces Sports Illustrated Cover
• 02/12/08 Yahoo spurns Microsoft, Google makes triangle
• 02/12/08 goo goo g'joob?
• 02/13/08 Pettite Affidavit Corrodes Clemens Steroid Denial
• 02/13/08 Rudd to stolen: "I'm really really sorry. I apologize unreservedly..."
• 02/13/08 New American majority, paranoid old guy win
• 02/14/08 The 10 Best Screen Villains of Cinema
• 02/15/08 Jamie Spears Remains in Control of Daughter's Affairs
• 02/15/08 27 Tries Later
• 02/16/08 Grumpy Old Killer
• 02/18/08 Curly Neal's no. 22 retired
• 02/18/08 Humane Society's beef against beef results in recall
• 02/18/08 Lack of insurance may cause cancer
• 02/18/08 Kosovo: Hello, cruel world
• 02/18/08 Heidi Klum Offers Advice, Helping Hand for Troubled Spears
• 02/19/08 No Oscars For Good Men
• 02/19/08 Priscilla Presley to Headline Next Edition of Dancing With the Stars
• 02/20/08 Military Poised to Shoot Down Dying Satellite
• 02/20/08 Obama Makes it Ten Straight
• 02/21/08 McCain gets some on the side (allegedly)
• 02/21/08 Dead Housewife Walking
• 02/21/08 Pow! Bleep bleep! Pentagon scores 100 points
• 02/21/08 I left my joystick in San Francisco
• 02/22/08 Senator Beer: Drink Hygenically
• 02/22/08 Microsoft-EC war: Euros skeptical of Microsoft move
• 02/22/08 "I'm just ... um ... exercising my ... um ... right to vote..."
• 02/26/08 Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich?
• 02/26/08 And The Band Played On (Though No One Was Watching)
• 02/28/08 Two Eyes Down
March 2008
• 03/03/08 Cut To:
• 03/03/08 Decision against spam man Jaynes upheld
• 03/03/08 Ramen producer "setting out to conquer the world"
• 03/04/08 Hillary wins several key endorsements
• 03/05/08 UN imposes sanctions on Iran (ho hum)
• 03/05/08 Clinton wins 3 of 4, at cost of Stewart's eternal soul
• 03/05/08 Spider-Boy
• 03/06/08 Watch your language in South Pasadena
• 03/06/08 Bush, Cheney recognized as public enemies nos. 1 and 2
• 03/07/08 R.I.P. USFL (finally), AAFL (probably)
• 03/10/08 Warning from Sheffield: You will be exterminated! Exterminate! Exterminate!
• 03/11/08 New York Yankees sign 60-year-old rookie
• 03/11/08 MPR election analysis: Barack Obama will not be elected president
• 03/12/08 Semi-Impressive
• 03/12/08 10 Movies That Every Writer Should See
• 03/13/08 New PETA website: McCartney headlines, Silverstone serves cheesecake
• 03/17/08 You(don't)Tube in China
• 03/17/08 Salvia divinorum: Illegalizing it
• 03/18/08 Europe's Enron finally in court
• 03/19/08 2008: Clarke's Final Odyssey
• 03/19/08 Urban Legends of Cinema #1: No Country For Dead Dogs?
• 03/20/08 Bin Laden wishes self happy birthday, talks (Euro)trash to enemies
• 03/21/08 Prehistoric Day
• 03/21/08 Fast Forward Please
• 03/24/08 Brazilian military declares War on Dengue, orders lots of really tiny bullets
• 03/25/08 Scoring the campaign 2008 quotebook
• 03/26/08 Bank Jobbing Through London
• 03/27/08 Take the (big tobacco) money and run (with the study results)
• 03/28/08 The Week that Was (MPR special hyper-compressed version)
• 03/30/08 Fitna: Wilders no Riefenstahl
• 03/31/08 The Wannabe Elizabeth Film
• 03/31/08 Obama bowls a 37, still not first Black bowler to become US president
April 2008
• 04/01/08 The sky is imploding! The sky is implo -
• 04/01/08 Horton Hears a What?
• 04/03/08 China seeks US assistance in defending country against Tibetan forces
• 04/04/08 The Week that Was (MPR 99-44/100% pure information version)
• 04/07/08 Urban Legends of Cinema #2: The 4 Best Alan Smithee Films
• 04/07/08 Olympic symbol extinguished; what does it mean?
• 04/08/08 UCLA Medical Center foolishly elicits wrath of superhuman vigilante
• 04/10/08 Absolut acknowledges Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• 04/11/08 The week in weed
• 04/14/08 How to Play Football
• 04/14/08 China propaganda exposed by squeaky-clean western types
• 04/15/08 NWA, Delta merge; new airline to be named Travel With Attitude
• 04/16/08 Curses, Ruined Again!
• 04/16/08 Maybe we are alone
• 04/18/08 The Week That Was (Compressed like a ZIP file version)
• 04/20/08 Happy 4/20 from all of us at MPR!
• 04/21/08 A Generic Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed by an Atheist
• 04/21/08 The Top 10 Things the Pope Didn't Hear on His Trip to New York
• 04/22/08 Safeguards against witch doctors sought by Tanzanian albinos
• 04/23/08 Close encounter of the second time: "Phoenix Lights" return
• 04/24/08 Stop the Protest Films!
• 04/25/08 Money Train stops: Snipes sentenced for tax evasion
• 04/28/08 21 Things I Dislike About Vegas
• 04/28/08 EU launches high-tech GPS satellite: No reason to be paranoid
• 04/30/08 R.I.P. Dr. Albert Hofmann
May 2008
• 05/01/08 Campaign 2008: McCain vs. Irony
• 05/02/08 Winner declared in London mayoral race (by bookie)
• 05/05/08 Surrender expected from Clinton campaign after devastating caucus loss in all-important Guam
• 05/06/08 Why hasn't anyone invited MPR to a skins party?
• 05/08/08 How will the (Northern Rockies gray) wolf survive?
• 05/09/08 MySpace launches an online revolution. We think. Maybe.
• 05/12/08 NDCP study shows marijuana causes depression in teens, paranoia in feds
• 05/12/08 Iron Muse
• 05/13/08 LiveScience.com pushing interspecies porn
• 05/14/08 What's in a (popular) name?
• 05/15/08 $86 million-plus: Trip(tych) out on that
• 05/16/08 The Week That Was (Absolutely subliminal message-free version)
• 05/19/08 EA to Take-Two shareholders: "You don't want $2 billion? OK, we'll give you more time"
• 05/20/08 Ladies and gentlemen, your Democratic Party nominee: Hillary Clinton!
• 05/21/08 On the intergalactic beacon at PSR J1903+0327
• 05/23/08 Medical marijuana advocates get their say in New Jersey
• 05/25/08 Just say "no" to varenicline
• 05/27/08 Quick, man! Reopen Project Blue Book! Immediately!
• 05/28/08 From Canada with undies
• 05/30/08 Stonehenge revealed to be really big tombstones (or really small Great Pyramids)
June 2008
• 06/02/08 WHO: Tobacco out of advertising
• 06/03/08 Dead Campaign Sketch
• 06/03/08 Remembering Peter Sellers
• 06/03/08 John Williams Returns in Indiana Jones 4
• 06/05/08 Bring out yer (politically) dead!
• 06/06/08 Google (heart) NASA
• 06/09/08 Didn't shoot the deputy: Fruitful weekend for marijuana busts
• 06/11/08 Impeach Bush! (Also Cheney, McCain, Obama, Hillary...)
• 06/13/08 She's Gotta Have the Good, the Bad and the Unforgiven Thing for X Dollars More (Starring Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee)
• 06/14/08 What Happened With Shyamalan?
• 06/17/08 Gore endorses McCain (yeah, surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre)
• 06/18/08 Celtics beat Lakers, end long Boston title drought
• 06/19/08 PwC on international gaming in the '10s: No gamble
• 06/20/08 Mitchell Smash Hulk!
• 06/30/08 When WALL-E Met EVE
July 2008
• 07/07/08 I Am Hancock?
• 07/16/08 Remembering Jack and Heath
• 07/21/08 The Dark Knight Returns!
August 2008
• 08/04/08 Brotherly Shove: A Review of Step Brothers
• 08/04/08 X-citing: A Review of The X Files: I Want To Believe
• 08/10/08 Warren Watches the Watchmen
• 08/19/08 Tropic Fever: A Review of of Tropic Thunder