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Breaking Into Comics The Marvel Way #1 ...is marked T+, which according to Marvel’s guidelines means that it is "Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children." So you won’t expect too much bad language, nudity of sexual content [but] in one story...

Last week, during the brouhaha over Bush saying "sh--" in front of an open mic, I confess I was strangely pleased that the guy swears now and then. He was talking to Tony ("Yo Blair") at the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, and they were discussing the only news of the day that mattered - Israel and Hezbollah and that whole mess. Neither man knew that an open mic was capturing their conversation...

US President George W. Bush "rolled his eyes and laughed" after being told that his unguarded comments about Israeli attacks on Lebanese militants had been broadcast to the world, the White House said today. Mr Bush's private conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair was caught on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Saint Petersburg. The US President told Mr Blair that Hezbollah must "stop doing this sh*t" - carrying out attacks on Israel - for the violence to end. He also said that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would soon tour the Middle East. Asked...

It wasn't meant to be overheard. Private luncheon conversations among world leaders, picked up by a microphone, provided a rare window into both banter and substance - including President Bush cursing Hezbollah's attacks against Israel. Bush expressed his frustration with the United Nations and his disgust with the militant Islamic group and its backers in Syria as he talked to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the closing lunch at the Group of Eight summit. "See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (expletive) and it's over," Bush...

EPITHET President Bush said today "Hezbollah must stop doing this bleep" using a barnyard epithet. He claimed he did not know there was an open microphone.... Do you think President Bush knew his swear word was being broadcast? Yes No To take poll click here

Bush caught out by open microphone US President George W. Bush has been caught out making candid comments on the Middle East crisis by an open microphone at a summit in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg. Mr Bush was caught saying that a key to defusing the Middle East crisis was for "Hezbollah to stop doing this s**t". "What they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this s**t, and it's over," Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a leaders' lunch at the Group of Eight industrial countries gathering here. The president...

President Bush was in no mood for diplomatic niceties at the G8 summit, judging by remarks made to Tony Blair as the leaders of the world's most powerful industrial democracies sat down to lunch today. Unaware that a microphone at the summit was switched on, Mr Bush, chomping a piece of bread, used the opportunity to suggest a way out of the latest criss in the Middle East. "See, the irony is what they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s***," he said. Mr Bush also hinted that Condoleezza Rice, the...

Golfer Tiger Woods has been criticised for saying he played like 'a spaz'. Can using the word ever be right? Two years ago I was involved in a linguistic incident at work. I called a disabled colleague a spaz after hearing he'd spilt coffee over yet another expensive bit of computer kit. My colleague laughed it off. It was a friendly bit of banter - spaz in this case meaning I thought he was being a bit of a stereotype like the helpless disabled people you used to see in telethons and charity posters. I use the term with irony...

Golfer Tiger Woods has been criticised for saying he played like 'a spaz'. Can using the word ever be right? Two years ago I was involved in a linguistic incident at work. I called a disabled colleague a spaz after hearing he'd spilt coffee over yet another expensive bit of computer kit. My colleague laughed it off. It was a friendly bit of banter - spaz in this case meaning I thought he was being a bit of a stereotype like the helpless disabled people you used to see in telethons and charity posters. I use the term with irony...

Fox, NASCAR blasted for S-bomb during race Family advocates rev into attack mode as car called 'piece of s---' in broadcast Family advocates are revving up against Fox Television and NASCAR after a driver's crew chief uttered the S-word during a nationally broadcast race Sunday. The obscene word was aired during a car-to-crew conversation between driver Martin Truex, Jr. and his crew chief, Kevin Manion, at the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. A frustrated Manion told his driver, "We missed the set-up today. It (the car) was a piece of s---." Fox announcer Mike Joy...

BEIJING — A Chinese official said publicly Tuesday he does not "give a sh*t" who will be elected president of Taiwan in the March 20 election as long as the winner follows a one-China policy. Zhang Guoxiang, spokesman for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), used the term at a press conference when a Taiwanese TV reporter asked him whether Taiwan's election would be a topic at the annual CPPCC session that begins Wednesday. (Kyodo News)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Shaquille O'Neal was suspended without pay by the NBA on Monday, one day after using obscene language and publicly criticizing the officials during a television interview. The suspension was announced just hours after O'Neal issued a statement apologizing for the comments he made following the Lakers' 84-83 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday. O'Neal will serve the suspension Monday night, sitting out a game against the Eastern Conference-leading Indiana Pacers. It will cost him nearly $295,000. O'Neal scored a season-high 36 points against the Raptors in his third game back after missing 12 because of...

Into the sewer February 2, 2004 Note: This column contains language that may be offensive to some readers. When Jack Paar, television's late-night talk show pioneer, died last week at 85, every obituary mentioned the time he walked off his NBC show in a huff, angry that the network's censors had cut a joke he'd recorded the day before. The joke turned on a misunderstanding of the letters "WC" -- the initials of "water closet," an Anglicism for toilet. By today's standards, it was an almost completely innocuous story -- a somewhat labored yarn about an English tourist writing to...

Mark Steyn says the Democrats are gearing up for their inevitable humiliation by calling Bush-supporters ‘stupid’. It’s the ‘S’ factor in the presidential election New Hampshire The other morning I woke up, leapt out of bed, pulled the curtains and discovered what appeared to be a total eclipse outside. I leapt in my rig, drove a couple miles down the road and discovered the cause: the world’s biggest ‘John Kerry For President’ sign had mysteriously appeared in my neighbour Laura’s front yard, blocking out all sunlight for miles around. It’s also the only John Kerry sign for miles around. Every...

WE WERE NOT too surprised when John Kerry used the f-word in a Rolling Stone magazine interview to describe the situation in Iraq. Kerry tries desperately to fit in wherever he goes, but he seldom manages to pull it off — except in Washington. His deployment of vulgarity in an interview with a pop music magazine was such a pathetic attempt to seem hip that it made him look even nerdier. However, we were surprised at what Wesley Clark said during a stop in Derry this past weekend. Asked how he would respond if any of his rivals questioned his...

DERRY, N.H. -- Moments after praising his opponents in the Democratic presidential race as worthy running mates, Wesley Clark said, in no uncertain terms, how he would respond if they or anyone else criticized his patriotism or military record. "I'll beat the s--- out of them," Clark told a questioner as he walked through the crowd after a town hall meeting Saturday. "I hope that's not on television," he added. It was, live, on C-SPAN. The campaign's traveling press secretary, Jamal Simmons, was with Clark at the time. "If anyone tries to question Wes Clark's character, integrity or his commitment...

DERRY - Moments after praising his opponents in the Democratic Presidential race as worthy running mates, Wesley Clark said, in no uncertain terms, how he would respond if they or anyone else criticized his patriotism or military record. "I'll beat the s--- out of them," Clark told a questioner as he walked through the crowd after a town hall meeting Saturday. "I hope that's not on television," he added. It was, live, on C-Span. Clark was responding to a rambling question by a man who referred to then-candidate George Bush attacking Sen. John McCain's commitment to veterans in the 2000...

Rita Cosby showed Wes Clark at a fundraiser. An elderly man walked up to Clark and began to question him about John McCain and George W. Bush. The man asked Clark..."What are you gonna do if the Republicans try to ruin you like they did with McCain in the 2000 election. You remember that Wes. They attempted to ruin him." Clark Responded. "I'll beat the shit out of him." The elderly man responded. "Hell yeah!" "Hell yeah!" "Thats the way to do it!"