May 2012
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theswanandthesnake:
My bags were all packed for the move only a few moments before the car pulled up. She honked once as Berenice rolled down a back passenger window and poked her head out. “It’s time to go, sleepyhead!” she yelled, and I pulled a window up.
“I’ll be right down,” I said. Miss Peters was probably still asleep in her room, finally tired from staying up all night for a CSI: Miami...
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Will Smith Slaps Journalist Who Tries To Kiss Him... →
Well, now. That was bizarre.
Will Smith is in the middle of a press tour for “Men in Black 3” and got more than he bargained for while in Moscow this week.
Smith was walking a press line when a reporter stopped him to give him a hug and attempted to kiss him.
“Hey man, what the hell is your problem?” Smith exclaimed, and pushed him away, before slapping the man in...
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Channing Tatum: "Even Straight Guys" Should See... →
Channing Tatumhopes to see Magic Mike reach the broadest audience possible — heterosexual men included.
The film, loosely based on his own experiences as an exotic dancer, features Tatum, 32, Matthew McConaughey, 42, Alex Pettyfer, 22, Matt Bomer, 34, Joe Manganiello, 35, and Adam Rodriguez, 27, in various states of undress.
“With Joe Manganiello naked in a movie, I think even...
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Discrimination In The Workplace Against Women May... →
Apparently, gender discrimination in the workplace can be influenced by your boss’ own domestic situation:
Now a new study shows that employed men’s marriages may be partly to blame for stalling the march toward gender equality at work.
The research, led by Sreedhari D. Desai, an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at UNC-Chapel Hill, consisted of four smaller studies...
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Emo PSA: Your Stupid Haircut Could Be Ruining Your... →
After reading this Time article, I’m not at all sure whether emo haircuts can cause lazy eyes (and stiff necks), but I figure they’re all safer if they do like The Bieb and move on:
Andrew Hogan, a national executive member of Australia’s Optometrists’ Association, told the Daily Telegraph that the floppy, Justin Bieber–esque ’do could lead to amblyopia — lazy eye. “If a young emo...
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Florence, Nurse Shark, Becomes Vegetarian... →
Say hello to Florence, the vegetarian nurse shark. This is kind of cool:
A nurse shark at the Birmingham National Sea Life Center in England appears to have become the world’s first vegetarian shark after developing a palate for heads of lettuce and other veggies, TreeHugger reports.
Florence, a 6-foot nurse shark, made headlines in 2009 after undergoing a risky out-of-water surgery...
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Chuck Brown Dead at 75 →
And on the heels of the Queen of Disco, Chuck Brown, The Godfather of Go-Go has also passed away. RIP to him as well.
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Legendary ‘Queen of Disco’ Donna Summer Dies at 63... →
A late R.I.P. for Donna Summer, Queen of Disco:
Donna Summer, the R&B songstress known best for her far-ranging voice and late-’70s dance-floor ballads who was dubbed the Queen of Disco at the height of the genre’s popularity, died Thursday from complications of cancer. She was 63.
Famous for her singing abilities as well as for her songwriting talents, Summer scored consistent hits at...
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Vince Li, Man Who Cannibalized Tim McLean, Allowed... →
You’d think beheading and cannibalism would be two of the few offenses for which you would never be allowed to see the outside of a metal institution ever again. You’d be wrong:
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept, a criminal review...
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Rihanna Does Whatever She Wants With Her Vagina... →
On point as usual, Jezebel calls out everyone huffing and puffing over Ri-Ri’s apparent lack of concern for stuffy social mores:
…why do we target Rihanna’s sex life so aggressively? Well, first of all, she seems to be truly having an awesome time—and women owning their sexual pleasure veers dangerously close to women wanting to own their bodies. And we can’t have that!...
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You Know You're a Hatemonger When... →
The Westboro Baptist Church is known for its extreme stance against homosexuality, picketing funerals of American serviceman and desecrating the American flag. They are so hateful that even the Klu Klux Klan distanced themselves from the church, denouncing them as “hatemongers.” The church is an Independent Baptist church headed by Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kansas.
They are infamous for...
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‘Black Madam’ on Trial for Illegal (and Deadly)... →
A “transgender gothic hip-hop artist” who goes by the name Black Madam is on trial for allegedly administering illegal (and sometimes lethal) silicone butt injections. Like ya do. After the procedure, one 23-year-old client began vomiting blood and developed severe respiratory problems due to silicone particles accumulating in her lungs.
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Black Madam’s (real name:...
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Mitt Romney Doesn’t Remember What He Said, But... →
At a press conference in Jacksonville today, Mitt Romney said he rejected a plan presented by GOP strategists to a Super PAC funded by Cubs-owning billionaire Joe Ricketts aimed at “defeating” President Obama by rehashing his ties to controversial reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Back in February, Romney himself brought up Wright in an interview with Sean Hannity on his radio show....
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Astrology 101: Five Reasons To Break Up With Each... →
Looking for a reason to break up with your significant other? The Frisky’s got five of them for you.
Conversely, if you’re looking for a reason to stay together, they’ve got you covered there, too: In fact … you should probably read this one first.
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John Derbyshire Is Pretty Sure That The Vast... →
You know, it’s one (asinine) thing to argue that slavery/segregation was better for society at large, but it’s a whole other thing to argue that black people preferred it because we chose to stay in the US rather than go back to Africa (a continent with which the slaves would have had no remaining ties whatsoever):
The gentle Harriet Beecher Stowe, for example, closed out Uncle...
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Bob Marshall, Virginia GOP Delegate Who Opposed... →
And in today’s winningest example of bigoted doublespeak, we have Bob Marshall, Republican delegate of Virginia:
A Virginia Republican delegate who led the effort to defeat the nomination of a gay Richmond prosecutor to a post on the general district court defended his opposition to the nomination, questioning how he would rule in the case of a “bar room fight between a homosexual...
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Trayvon Martin Case Shadowed by Series of Police... →
A catalog of the series of unfortunate investigative events following Trayvon Martin’s death.
The killing of Trayvon Martin here two and a half months ago has been cast as the latest test of race relations and equal justice in America. But it was also a test of a small city police department that does not even have a homicide unit and typically deals with three or four murder cases a...
