“Sex and The City” the ladies’ night of the summer

Ladies, dust off your Manolos and prepare for the ultimate girls’ night out because the “Sex and the City” movie is the perfect friend date.

Polito-fatigue

Tomorrow the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee will meet and discuss exactly how to bend the rules enough to make Michigan and Florida voters feel important while at the same time punishing their false start.

CWS Preview: Michigan Wolverines

The Wolverines are having a season for the record books. They won the Big Ten regular season championship for the third year in a row with more wins than any team in conference history.

Of pasties, prisoners and pessimism: a venture Northward

“Nope, as it happens, is the distinctive Upper Peninsula dialect for “I strongly suggest you take the pasty to go.”

Helicopter Crashes on Downtown Hospital

“We could see debris flying everywhere,” said Bruce Walters of Cedar Springs, whose son was being treated at the hospital. “I could see the blades flying off. The boom shook our entire room. Then we knew something horrible had happened.”

U. Arizona-led mission touches down on Mars

After a successful landing Sunday, the University of Arizona took over science operations for NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, making the UA the first university to run a NASA Mars Mission.

Radio signals received at 4:53 p.m. confirmed that the Phoenix Lander had survived its final descent through the Martian atmosphere and successfully touched down on the planet’s surface.

In Brief - Obama to visit Michigan again on Monday

According to a report by WOOD TV 8, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is set to visit Michigan for the second time this month on Monday. Details are yet to be released.

“Indy 4″ doesn’t overreach, exceeds expectations

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is what the original films were - American popcorn cinema. While it will never win an academy award, the film is engaging, fun to watch, and leaves the viewer with a slight sense of awe and wonder.

Military analysts as talking heads

The New York Times offers a scathing critique of the practices of a collective group of military analysts, who were inundated with positive talking-points on the situation of the Iraq war.

Gasoline: it’s a hard knock life

Is there virtue in fighting tooth and nail for lower gas prices when the international picture shows the U.S. dramatically on the low end of the price scale?