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Dowd, the award-winning New York Times columnist, is promoting her new book, “Are Men Necessary?” Of course, Dowd doesn’t think so. Which is fortunate for her, since she also believes we’re going away. “There’s a body of evidence now that the Y chromosome is rotting at such a fast rate that it will go out of business in about 100,000 years,” Dowd said recently on CNN. “Now that women don’t need men to reproduce and refinance, the question is, will we keep you around?”

Michael Jackson is lashing out at his critics, saying he and his family have dedicated themselves to "unity and peace" and do not deserve to be the targets of ridicule and lies. "It is unfortunate that for years we have been targets of completely inaccurate and false portrayals," Jackson said in a brief statement posted on his Web site Thursday. "We have watched as we have been vilified and humiliated. I personally have suffered through many hurtful lies and references to me as 'Wacko Jacko' as well as the latest untruth about me fathering quadruplets." The entertainer, who is facing...

Note: Forgive this vanity, but this must be done. Kudos to the mod on duty for zapping the Tub-girl Troll early. I stayed put to see if he would post again. And true to form, he/she/it did at the same time as it normally does, which is between 0730-0800 hours CDT on weekdays. This probably means that it is posting them from the job, likely from the eastern time zone. Now, who was it? All information should be put out in the open post haste. cyborg, mhking, Darksheare, and I are tired of being the specific targets on this sub-human...