Bush's Approval Ratings Dip Deep Into Crapper
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
OUTGOING MESSAGE George (Photo: Getty Images) • Lame duckery: President Bush's approval ratings reach a new low, with a slim 18 percent of Americans approving his on-the-job performance. Everyone else thinks the economy's in the tank and we're screwed.
• Off the charts: Sony's throwing a hissyfit that Billboard has confined Michael Jackson's Thriller 25 to the oldies chart, rather than allowing it to top the real charts.
• Going down: The firm of Vicki Iseman, John McCain's lobbyist friend, makes quick work of pulling her bio off the Web as the New York Times story hits.
• Medical miracle: Italian scientists use ultrasound to find the mysterious female G spot. Disbelieving men everywhere demand further research.
• Team players: Thirty-eight Duke Lacrosse players who were not charged in the infamous rape case file suit against the school and the city for violation of privacy, emotional distress, and a bunch of other stuff contained in a 100-page lawsuit.
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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• On the records: In its ongoing quest to totally own you and do away with that pesky personal privacy thing, Google begins testing a new medical-record management system.
• Working it: Patrick van der Eeem, friend and videographer to Joran van der Sloot, is trying to get a book deal out of his bizarro relationship with Natalee Holloway's suspected killer.