Archive for April, 2007


Frightening

THIRTEEN YEARS LATER COURTNEY LOVE FINALLY PARTS WITH COBAIN'S PJ'S FITSNews - April 30, 2007 - There is a line out there where grief ends and insanity begans, and from what it sounds like to us Courtney Love probably crossed it like a decade ago. The Guardian UK is reporting today that thirteen years

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Our Definition of Skinny Must Be Off

PHOTOSHOP PROJECT PROVIDES ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR FEMALE EMPOWERMENT FITSNews - April 30, 2007 - You know if we had a nickel for everytime Sic Willie came into the FITSNews' graphic design office and said "I want you to photoshop Kate Bosworth's head on this girl's body" we seriously wouldn't need

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Bravo, DeMint

SENATOR ABSOLUTELY CORRECT TO STOP "EARMARKING" FITSNews - April 30, 2007 - True, watching U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in action is a lot like watching ice melt. We've met statues with more spunk, corpses with more charisma and potatoes with more personality. In fact, if John C. Calhoun was scheduled to debate

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Let The TV Wars Begin

SPARKS FLY BETWEEN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS OVER TV ADS FITSNews - April 30, 2007 - We used to make fun of SouthCarolina08.com for being a John McCain-Mitt Romney spitball match. In fact, until the site was purchased by new owners in February, it was little more than a running diary of Never-Been-Laid

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A Peaceful Muslim Feelin?

LONDON "PEACE" DEMONSTRATION PHOTOS TURN OUT TO BE PART OF GLOBAL INTERNET HOAX FITSNews - April 30, 2007 - We were forwarded a number of photos the other day from a buddy of ours up in Canada. Well, not really. Turns out we actually don't know anybody in Canada. But we know people who know people in

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FITS Fartknockers In First

SIC WILLIE'S FANTASY TEAM IS, DARE WE SAY, "EN FUEGO" FITSNews - April 29, 2007 - One month into the 2007 fantasy baseball season, Sic Willie's FITS Fartknockers are putting a hurting on the competition, cruising to the league lead in four of eight statistical categories and opening up a 10-point cushion

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Echo Chamber – Harrell’s House Of Cards, Pt. 2

A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE CIGARETTE TAX SHOWDOWN IN THE S.C. HOUSE OF (BIG GOVERNMENT) REPRESENTATIVES FITSNews - April 29, 2007 - It was a little before 5:00 p.m. last Wednesday afternoon when the wheels officially fell off in the S.C. House of Representatives. An amendment to the cigarette tax

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Brady’s A Brown But …

... IT TOOK A LOT LONGER THAN EXPECTED TO MAKE HIM ONE FITSNews - April 28, 2007 - Former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn is officially a member of the Cleveland Browns, it just didn't go down the way anybody expected. Instead of taking "Dreamboat" with the third overall pick of today's NFL Draft,

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Can McCain, GOP Candidates Reconcile With “The Boys?”

WILL "HERITAGE" SUPPORTERS FORGIVE ARIZONA SENATOR? FITSNews - April 27, 2007 - "The boys don't forget," a friend of ours told us several months ago. Who are "the boys," you may ask? Well, they're supporters of the Confederate flag, among other things. Good Ole' Boys. White boys. Budweiser-drinkin'

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Score One For The Blogs (& The Taxpayers)

PORK BARREL PROGRAM WE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON GETS SUSPENDED FITSNews - April 27, 2007 - If you could read Thai, you'd know the sign pictured above says "STOP." As in do not pass go, do not collect $200. In fact, stop collecting any of the millions of taxpayer bucks wasted in recent years on a flagrant

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Golf Anybody?

JOANNA KRUPA TO PLAY BMW CELEBRITY PRO-AM IN GREENVILLE NEXT MONTH FITSNews - April 26, 2007 - God bless BMW. Not only do they employ like every third person in South Carolina and make really cool roadsters and SUV's, but they also hold swanky celebrity golf tournaments featuring stars like Kevin Costner

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Elephant Crashing Donkey Debate?

REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR TO ATTEND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN ORANGEBURG, S.C. FITSNews - April 26, 2007 - Republican S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford will attend tonight's Democratic presidential debate in Orangeburg, S.C., sources tell FITSNews. And while some Palmetto State Democrats were up in arms at the

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