Today in Salon: The year in celebrity meltdowns

Today in Salon: Wednesday December 30, 2009

The year in celebrity meltdowns Temper Fi! When stars attack, or otherwise go nuts in public, we love it -- often more than we love their work By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Open Salon Bed Bread Recipe on Reading: The Books I Have Waiting To Be Read Little Pink Boots Santa Visits the Wonderhorse Love Emporium

Broadsheet Charlie Sheen's history of violence Stalking: There's an app for that Taco Bell's New Year frescolution Wasted older women

Directors of the decade: No. 2: Miyazaki & Pixar Pixar's animation is loaded with beauty and feeling -- but Hayao Miyazaki's work disturbs and challenges us By Matt Zoller Seitz

Glenn Greenwald Rove: Champion of "traditional" divorce Distortions in the healthcare debate Cause and effect in the "Terror War"

Posts suggest lonely, depressed terror suspect One post: "i do not have a friend, i have no one to speak too... i feel depressed and lonely" JON GAMBRELL

When the kids make dinner Nostalgia for some really very bad times By Sueinaz

God changes with the weather In warm Southern climes, one man's warrior view of the Great Giver of Truth gives way to a hedonistic pantheism By Garrison Keillor

The K Chronicles Life's little victories on our trip to Germany By Keith Knight

War Room Quote of the day Obama speaks again on attempted terror attack Reid to push for vote on stalled TSA nominee Poll: Nelson in trouble over healthcare reform Rove, wife divorce Pressure growing on DeMint over TSA hold

Films of the decade: "Gladiator" With grandiose CGI sets and glorious acting, Ridley Scott's epic reawakened the sword-and-sandal genre By Rosemary Picado

Coffee will kill you (or not) The Wall Street Journal on the benefits -- and dangers -- of that morning cup of joe By Thomas Rogers

Study: More time spent online Americans 18 and older spent an average of 13 hours a week on Web TALI ARBEL

Malawi: 2 men arrested for engagement party In Africa, only South Africa has legalized same-sex marriage

Bristol Palin launches custody battle Johnston: "I do not feel protected against Sarah Palin in a closed proceeding"

Films of the decade: "Chop Shop" Ramin Bahrani's acutely observed film about two kids living rough in Queens defines the late '00s in America By Will Di Novi

Yemen: U.S. never warned us about airline bomber Abdulmutallab got a visa after Yemen was reassured he had several from other countries AHMED AL-HAJ

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