• Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography
  • Spider-Man and his wife
  • The iphone
  • Atonement
  • The evidence of Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former butler
  • Free newspapers on the subways
  • George Michael’s (access-all-areas) autobiography

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  1. Ali

    I agree totally John -

    - As predicted by Orwell, the mainstream media feeds us with trivial matters so that the real issues that confront the human condition are left in the shadows.

    We just keep struggling though this simulation that we term life

    Ali

    jb says: Hi Ali. Good to see you here in the shadows.

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