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Maybe Sting should start writing more instrumentals. The school teacher-turned-rock star topped Blender's list of the worst lyricists, thanks to lines that betray "mountainous pomposity (and) cloying spirituality," the music magazine said. The survey, contained in the November issue that hits newsstands next week, placed Rush drummer Neil Peart at No. 2, Creed frontman Scott Stapp at No. 3, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher at No. 4, and soft-rocker Dan Fogelberg at No. 5. Blender assailed Sting for such alleged sins as name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the Police tune "Don't Stand So Close to Me," quoting a Volvo bumper...

I have seen the ads yesterday and now today! One is two gay men and the other is two lesbian women. This is a car ad folks and it is nothing more than a car for for gays and lesbians! I'm totally disgusted and goin to tell Lexus I will not ever buy any of their products! Disgusting!

A victim has told the Princess Royal how she survived two bomb attacks in London in less than an hour. Louise Barry, 29, was evacuated from an Underground train hit by an explosion at Edgware Road station. She then boarded the bus that was blown apart in Tavistock Square. When Princess Anne was visiting victims of the terror attacks in University College hospital last week, she suggested that Barry might not remember much. Barry replied: “Unfortunately, I remember all of it.” The marketing executive, who was born in Sydney but now works in London, suffered a fractured neck, a puncture...

The man cleared last month on claims he molested a teenager while playing Tigger at the Magic Kingdom has been suspended again.

Convicted peeper Samuel Ferebee, in blue shirt, was one of many who greeted Sen. Edwards following church services. RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sen. John Edwards was back in the nation's capital Sunday night after a rousing weekend homecoming. While in Raleigh, Elizabeth and Sen. John Edwards attended services Sunday at Edenton Street United Methodist Church. Before Edwards left for Washington Sunday, he went to his hometown church and also discovered that little is routine for him anymore. Never before had Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, gotten so much attention for going to church. But, joining the Democratic presidential ticket can change...