That woman with the octuplets - babies all sort of look the same, don't they, so how on earth do you tell 8 of them apart?  What if there's a mix-up and Tom and Jim swap identities and then Jim becomes Brad and oh god which one of them is Max anyway? Turns out she's named them Noah, Malia, Isaiah, Nariah, McCai, Josiah, Jeremiah and Jonah, which implies that she's just opened the Bible to a random page and decided "that'll do", resisting the temptation to call them "Andy, Brad, Carl, Derek...", not least because Derek is an awesome name that Americans haven't caught on to yet. Surely though, naming your first-born is an amazing thing and they spent hours deciding what to ...

Via http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-beerpong0211,0,2229586.story A veteran state senator has abandoned his effort to ban drinking games such as beer pong and flip cup in Baltimore City bars in the face of a growing online lobbying effort. "We're getting inundated with so many e-mails that I don't have the time to fool with it," Della said. "I just hope that if people continue doing it, they do it in a way that there's not excessive drinking and disrespect for the surrounding neighborhoods." If he can take the position that people can be trusted to do it safely, then why would he try and ban it in the first place?  And if he doesn't think that, then why's he given up? A far more sensible idea be to ...

TV Review: Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling Are we tired of reality-elimination shows yet?  A never-ending parade of enthusiastic amateurs being judged on their ability to perform some specific and esoteric task, and one by one being removed for some seemingly arbitrary reason, until someone finally wins the thing.  Everything from cooking, to singing to ice-skating has been represented on these formulaic shows, and now, as the barrel has been scraped so hard that we're nearly through the other side, we have Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling. As a celebrity reality show, the level of celebrity recognition mostly wavers around amount you'd expect if an American were to watch a show starring Jack Meadows from the Bill, Brian Harvey and the woman ...