Did a six-year-old Oregon girl commit suicide? Medical examiners say yes, police investigators say no, and the Associated Press provides details: The girl, days short of her 7th birthday when she died in December, is thought to be the youngest person ever to commit suicide in Oregon, according to the state Department of Human Services. […]
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“Do You Want Men Dressed as Women Teaching Your Kids?”
That’s the question asked by the Traditional Values Coalition on their website EndaHurtsKids.com: Mathu Andersen President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are quietly rushing through legislation (H.R. 3017 & S. 1584) that would actually bring cross-dressing teachers into your child’s classroom. Under the so-called, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), your children will be trapped in classes […]
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They Have Rehab for Nazi Cheataholics Now?
Hump addressed this in Good Morning, News!, but it really deserves its own post, with picture. Yes, that fantabulous photo to the right shows Jesse James giving a Nazi salute while donning a German soldier cap. As US Weekly reports, the pic was taken in 2004, a year before his marriage to Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock, […]
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The Sweetest Movie About Teaching the Basics of Menstruation to a Young Girl with Down Syndrome You Will Ever See
This instructional video has been a legendary showstopper on the “found footage” circuit for at least a decade, but thanks to Videogum, I know it’s now on YouTube. And oh yeah: This is probably ever-so-slightly NSFW. (There’s a reason they showed these types of films only to gender-segregated audiences in darkened lunchrooms.)
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Lindsay Lohan: “You guys….that computer-enhanced baby is totally ME!!!!”
Apparently that’s the thought that went through the mind of Lindsay Lohan upon seeing this E-Trade commercial: As the New York Post reports: Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial—who happens to be named Lindsay—was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for […]
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Welcome to the First Full Day of the “Sandra Bullock Is a Best Actress Oscar Winner” Era
And if you think you’re weirded out by the fact in the subject line, imagine how such Oscar-free actresses as Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, Angela Basset, Laura Dern, Mia Farrow, Gena Rowlands, and a dozen more I can’t think of right now feel. Nevertheless, hurrah for Oscars’ Ladies Night! (I guess it was […]
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Pug Teen Wolf
Oh fuck yeah. Hat tips to Blogtown tipper Graham. Here’s the source!
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“The Warmest, Most Personal Gift You Can Share”
The Hug-E-Gram. It comes with “1 Dozen Lasting Roses.” They are made of wood. Check out this amazing testimonial: (So, a wife with breast cancer but, we can assume, two functioning arms decides to cheer up her laid-off husband by spending twenty bucks that could be spent on hospital bills or food on robot arms […]
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California Judge Rules That Polanski Must Return to U.S. for Sentencing
From Bloomberg News: Film director Roman Polanski will have to return to California to be sentenced, more than 32 years after he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, a judge said. California Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza, at a hearing today in Los Angeles, denied Polanski’s request to be sentenced in absentia. […]
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Are You Ready for New Year’s Eve?
Crazy Bruce would like to help. Thank you, WOW Report.
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Balloon Boy’s Family Gets a Bill
Take it away, TMZ: The two morons behind that terrible “Balloon Boy” stunt are finally going to have to pay the price for all of their dumbassery—a cool $42,000. The Larimer County District Attorney’s office claims it sent the bill to Richard and Mayumi Heene—demanding the couple pay restitution to the agencies which took part […]
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Today in Racism Made Visual
From the Caucasian characters’ point-blank mockery to the artist’s choice of food/utensils for the victim, this is a multi-faceted study on the insidious power of racism. Or something. Thank you, WOW Report and Holy Taco.