It's a new century oj. Time to upgrade from Karen Carpenter to Lindsay Lohan.

No, Karen Carpenter, she's dead.

Europe's deadweight.

Except that Lindsay Lohan is a healthy lass, and not at all waif-like.

Kate Beckinsale, on the other hand, is quite lithe and lean.

Orrin Judd said:

"But that misses the point that the constitution was agreed unanimously by 25 member states representing 455 million people from Helsinki to the Azores and from Nicosia to Warsaw."

There are only 25 member states in total, and although the leaders provisionally accepted the constitution, only 9 states have actually ratified it (Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain). This is far from representative of the whole of Europe.

A lot of people spent a lot of time fighting to try and maintain their independence from a united Europe; we have a heavyweight history to consider.

Tad:

The story says that.

History is over. Europe's present is the problem.

So it does, and all the more reason not to be a Guardian reader.

Europe's present may, indeed, be the problem, but until History is forgotten there can't be a cohesive Europe. While you can still see the ruins of attempted unity it's hard to hand over any responsibilities to a united body. It's in the blood.

Michael, Lohan now makes Kate Beckinsale look like Kirstie Alley. Check the link if you dare (sfw of course):

http://www.thesuperficial.com/image.php?path=/archives/ll22.jpg

Where's she been spending her holidays?

Ethiopia?

Pat H:

Lohan's got nothing on Mary Kate Olson. Plus half of Lohan's weight loss was due to the surgical removal of the shadows on her shoes.

Rumors abound that she is on the old fashioned Hollywood Diet: Eat, Snort, Puke. Repeat as needed.

Mary Kate Olson is good. Cameron Diaz looks like an animated skeleton. Lohan is a porker.

Pat if your link is telling the truth you are right about her diet. Although why a man of your stature would know this is a disturbing question.

Robert -

You have made a formal error.

Robert,
Closets, skeletons etc.

Robert:

I must come to the aid of my friend and colleague Pat H.

You said:

"Except that Lindsay Lohan is a healthy lass, and not at all waif-like."

Behold, the Lohan before (All-American girl) and after (jonesing junkie) pix: http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/gossip/lindsay-lohan/index.php#dept-of-false-advertising-snl-selling-last-years-lohan-104301

You said:

"Mary Kate Olson is good. Cameron Diaz looks like an animated skeleton. Lohan is a porker."

Check out this Mary Kate photo, then tell me where she fits in terms of animated skeleton: http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/000942.html

Both sets of pictures, of course, are work-safe.

You said:

"Pat if your link is telling the truth you are right about her diet. Although why a man of your stature would know this is a disturbing question."

Not to speak for Pat H (is 'he' a man?), but, as the father of a fifteen-year old girl, I try to keep up with this celebrity nonsense because I find this obsession with weight by teenage girls to be ridiculous, if not destructive.

So, Robert, you may now visit these tabloid sites in the spirit of research. I gotta go before oj bans me from his site.

It is of little real importance, but to clear up the occasional confusion, I have officially changed my signature to Patrick H.

And Fred, of course such sites are ONLY for spirited research. I mean, nobody (cough) could actually get enjoy a sight like "The Superficial" could they?

Also, I'll be in the Bay Area on the 11th then fishing up at Clear Lake for a week. I hope the weather's pleasant.