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I'd love to get Jennifer Aniston and Ron English in a room together. What a hoot that would be. Maybe not as fun as Aniston sans English, but I digress. Aniston has drawn the ire of Fox TV's Bill O'Reilly, among others, for comments she made while promoting her new movie, "Switch." English is the head football coach at Eastern Michigan University. He raised some eyebrows with comments he made to the Detroit News last week. Why would a meeting of the minds of a Hollywood actor and a college football coach make for some interesting discussion? Simple: opposites attract, and make for some lively debate. Aniston, in a nutshell, could take or leave men---when it comes to starting and raising a family. English, in a nutshell, overzealously believes a father figure is critical to a boy's upbringing, especially if that boy wants to play college football. Here's Aniston, promoting "Switch," in which she plays a single woman who chooses to start a family v...

Bernie Madoff is sorry. Ashamed. His words. Madoff, maybe the most appropriately-surnamed criminal in the history of the world, faces up to 150 years in prison for bilking a staggering amount of money from a staggering amount of investors in a staggeringly successful Ponzi scheme. He set a world's record for it, the historians say. But he's sorry. Sorry he got caught, I figure. Ashamed that he let down the Grifting Gods. "Sorry" is what you say when you accidentally bump into someone's cart at the grocery store. Or hurt someone's feelings with a caustic, insensitive remark. I'm not sure what the word is for systematically, and for years, robbing folks blind after gaining their trust, but it sure ain't "sorry." I do know, however, two words for Madoff's apology. If this was, at the same time, a fair and more barbaric society, Madoff would be handcuffed to his seat in the courtroom and every investor would be allowed thirty seconds with him...