Jezebel: Burma

Tom Ford Shows French Vogue His Headdress Collection

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:38:00 EST

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Tom Ford's issue of Vogue Paris boasts a spread of children wearing jewelry and makeup, the promised editorial featuring women d'un certain age who spurn plastic surgery, and a photo of Tom Ford in a Native American-style headdress. Tasteful. [HuffPo]

Waiting For Democracy

Lauri Apple — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:20:00 EDT

[Yangon, Burma, November 5: A woman sits by a campaign poster hung for the upcoming election in Myanmar, which many say is a "sham" because of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's ongoing house arrest. Image via Getty.]

UPDATED: Gap To Give Away 10,000 Pairs Of Jeans On Facebook

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:36:00 EDT

Want free jeans? Don't mind handing a corporation access to your personal data and real-time location? Gap will give away 10,000 pairs of jeans to Facebook fans who "check in" to its stores ~~on an as-yet-unannounced date~~ tomorrow. [Fashionista]

Animal Sex Is Wild • Mom Calls Cops On 6-Year-Old Daughter

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST

• The weird, curly, gelatinous thing in the image at left is actually a duck penis. And, curiouser and curiouser, the female duck has a similarly corkscrew-shaped vagina - only it curves the opposite direction. More »

Cloudy With A Chance Of Powers

Anna Holmes — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Sydney, October 27. Image via Getty]

Court Rejects Suu Kyi's Appeal • France To Chemically Castrate Sex Offenders?

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:30:00 EDT

• A Burmese court has rejected pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi's recent appeal. Kyi will be placed under house arrest for the next 18 months, which will effectively keep her out of the way during the upcoming elections. • More »

Someone To Watch Over Me

Anna Holmes — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:10:00 EDT

[Mandalay, September 28. Image via Getty]

Vacation At The "Human Zoo," See The "Long-Neck Women!"

Sadie Stein — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EDT

The Padaung, Burmese women famous for their elongated necks, are a popular tourist attraction - and some say they're basically being enslaved: More »

Safe Havens

Anna Holmes — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Thai/Myanmar border, June 18. Image via Getty]

Sending Out An S.O.S.

Anna Holmes — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:10:00 EDT

[Tokyo, June 19. Image via Getty]

Burmese Activist Charged After Visit By "Wretched American"

Anna North — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:40:00 EDT

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was charged today with violating the terms of her house arrest after an American man snuck into her house uninvited. More »

Britney Spears Beats Barack Obama For Eric Cantor

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:00:00 EDT

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, whose fellow Republicans have been critical of Obama's social calendar, skipped watching Tuesday's Obama presser to see the Britney Spears concert. Someone made him, y'all. [Think Progress, Huffington Post]

Bigger Than Burning Man.

Moe — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Seventy five thousand people showed up to see Obama's biggest yet speech in Portland, Oregon yesterday. Firstly, that represents something like one-seventh the entire population of Portland and undoubtedly the biggest-ever congregation of fixed-gear bicycles. In fact, the crowd was bigger than pretty much any outdoor rock concert including Burning Man (though not including the Stones at Altamont Speedway) and it was in a city, a city we can only imagine smells kind of awful right now, if only because the coffee in Portland lends itself to really foul shits. Anyway, a friend of mine used to call Portland "White People Gone Wild." It is not such a terrible shock this crowd digs Obama. So as this woeful chapter in our nation's history concludes I can only hope the WPGW contingent will stop saying ludicrous things like the election of John McCain would be "eight more years" of Bush. To say such a thing cheapens the trauma of the World's Worst Presidency and further tries our almost thoroughly bankrupt national capacity for nuance, a capacity Obama is trying to restore. That and lots more with Megan and I, after the jump. More »

Hillary = Not Exactly The Loser Here, People!

Moe — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

You've all been sending us this think piece from today's Washington Post about how everyone feels so sorry for Hillary Clinton because she reminds men of their first wives. AYE DE MI ENVIA LOS BONERKILLERS! (BOEHNERKILLERS?) So yeah, I Nexis-ed that, and guess what? Republican pollster Frank Luntz said this TWELVE YEARS AGO. Twelve years ago as in, when Lush was on the radio. As in, more than a decade before a preponderantly Republican-appointed court decided banning gay marriage was unamerican, before a certain first wife's gasbag ex-husband devoted a decade of his life to reexamining the life and character of Hillary Clinton, and 12 years before Peggy Noonan pointed out, as she did today, that "Republicans are losing because they are losers." Megan and I cosign after the jump. More »

President Bullshit

Moe — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:30:00 EDT

George W. Bush is in Israel right now where he equated Obama with Hitler over his suggestion that he meet with Ahmadinejad. I guess in Israel they have to smile when he talks but Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik doesn't look like her heart is in it. [Wash Post]

John McCain: Yeah, Maybe Just Let This Guy Be President

Moe — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Bummertown Thursday, dudes. There's a death toll of 20,000 in China, some 2 million displaced people in Burma (and a newly-passed referendum ensures they will all remain comprehensively and brutally oppressed!) and longest and most depressing of all, a not brief Times cover story on John McCain and All The Places In The World That Have Sucked Since The Seventies. "I'd rather lose an election than a war," he says, which kind of hits the nail on the head; with apologies to Lauryn Hill, we might win some but we really lost one, and maybe Creighton Abrams was the right guy at the wrong time and maybe that's just how it rolls in these war situations but whatever happens the next few years, Dreamy Team or no, are going to continue sucking. SinisterRouge is doing penance, Jim McGreevey's entering the seminary, and "sweetiegate", and the Anna Nicole autopsy report-inspired cocktail of psychotropic drugs the Department of Homeland Security is currently feeding deportees, are all discussed by me and cynical Megan after the jump. More »

Yeah, Your Day Wasn't Really That Bad After All

Moe — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:30:00 EDT

The Sichuan earthquake has probably killed 9,000 people, and let 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia out into the streets, but if I know you guys it's the panda stuff that is really going to get to you. [Wash Post]

It Was A Nice Day For A White Voter

Moe — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Welcome back kids! How was el fin de semana? Because it sure sucked for a lot of our overseas amigos! A devastating earthquake on the scale of an earthquake that killed a quarter million people in 1976 just rocked China's Sichuan province; Burma's totalitarian military junta decided to grant itself unlimited totalitarian power and all the donated rice; no one can really protest the junta since they are mostly all dead and/or starving to death anyway; hopefully Jenna Bush did the sensitive thing and refrained from throwing rice at her wedding; two John McCain advisers did the sensitive thing and stepped down when it turned out they'd actually taken three hundred grand from the junta for PR services. Bob Barr and Ron Paul both launched separate attempts to do what voters are already doing anyway and sink McCain's campaign; Michelle Obama is nixin Hillary as a running mate (according to Bob Novak?!) and speaking of Nixon, there's a new book on him and the white voters who elected him and we read all about it sorta. All that and a Vito Fossella primer ATJ. More »

The World, Too, Is Bipolar

mcarpentier — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:40:00 EDT

Hillary Clinton won't wear Donna Karan anymore because it makes her look too well-dressed. Four words, Hillary: Nancy Pelosi is Speaker. [Times UK]

Good Intentions

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:45:00 EDT

"I wrote my whole thesis on Burma," Kim Kardashian claims in this public service announcement about the country's political plight. "It just makes me think: A few months ago I had no idea about the problems of Burma... and now I am simply devastated," Kim writes. Watch as she tries on clothes and talks about Myanmar elections at the same time! [OfficialKimKardashian.com] More »

The "And You Thought Yesterday Was Bad" Edition

mcarpentier — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:30:00 EDT

After last night's fellatio-esque interview of John McCain, reporters ask Jon Stewart if he's a real journalist and if he should've tried harder to ask a real question. No, and yes. [Comedy Central, Time, Rolling Stone]

Who Would God Vote For? Probably the Fascists!

mcarpentier — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Not that I ever smoked, but I guess I'd start, too, if my house looked like that. But there are disasters all over the place today, from Hillary's wonderful comments on race to the innocent guy we held in Gitmo who decided that the terrorists were right about us to the Myanmar cyclone pictured. It's disaster day on Crappy Hour, as Moe takes a much-needed break and I take a moment away from Glamocracy to talk Texas, Hillary, terrorists, fascists and God with the Washington Independent's Attackerman, Spencer Ackerman. More »

The Oh, Hell No Afternoon

mcarpentier — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:30:00 EDT

New York City police arrested Al Sharpton, Sean Bell's fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell, and hundreds of other protesters today for staging prayer sessions at the exits of Manhattan in protest over the acquittal of the cops that shot Mr. Bell. Because, obviously, inconveniencing others to protest the loss of life means you should spend time at Rikers. Why did they have to make me like Al Sharpton? [NY Times]

Barack Obama Doesn't Look Too Psyched About That Beer

Moe — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

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Fifty thousand people are dead or close to it in Burma, and Barack Obama can state unequivocally that he does not drink designer beer. Seventy five percent of American adults will at some point be impoverished. The average American car owner really must save $30 this summer. Chris Hitchens believes Barack Obama may be pussy-whipped. Ellen Page believes Burmese dictator Than Shwe is a modern Hitler. And when tomorrow comes, Terry McAuliffe believes everyone will be saying that Hillary Clinton did better than they thought she was going to do in both the North Carolina and Indiana primaries tonight. Now there's a statement Glamocracy Megan and I can get behind! After the jump, an unusually hip-hop laden edition of Crappy Hour. More »

Laura Bush Talks Myanmar, Marriage

Moe — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:30:00 EDT

Laura Bush gave a speech about Burma a.k.a. Myanmar and disaster preparedness and Jenna's wedding. Her lipstick was very well-applied. More than 10,000 people may die as a result of the cyclone. Harry built a limestone altar in Texas especially for the wedding. It will be "permanent" in contrast to many of the structures in Myanmar, where limestone and most other things are in short supply. The ruling junta is holding a referendum this weekend to solidify its control of their dirt- poor, isolated disaster zone and I guess this means they win. Governments that are more efficient when it comes to killing citizens than warning about floods always win in the short term. And also the medium term. [Huffington Post]

The selective abortions and abandonment...

Jessica — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:50:00 EST

The selective abortions and abandonment of female babies in China has led to a rash of preteen Burmese girls being trafficked across the border and sold into marriage. According to the Independent, there are 30 million more men than women in China at this point, and men "near the Burmese border have begun to buy girls as young as 10 to become the brides of men old enough to be their fathers or even grandfathers." Burma is rife with human rights abuses, and the average income is about $400 a year. This kind of thing makes all those wedding shows filled with spending orgies seem extra disgusting, right? [The Independent] More »

Good News For Creatures, Great & Small

Jennifer — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:00 EST

Still enraged over presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's evil, Eagle Scout award-winning dog-murderer of a son? Or the news that Blackwater assholes killed one of the dogs living at the NY Times' Baghdad bureau? Here's a little something to remember: A whole lotta people actually want to help animals. To begin, there is finally a Merck Manual for animals on the market with which pet owners can learn about everything from communicable diseases (humans to animals) to how to diagnose a gerbil with depression. And as for truly troubled animals who need more than just a manual, there are, thankfully, many other people are getting their paws, er, hands wet to make a better world a better place: More »

The UN envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari,...

mcarpentier — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:45:00 EST

The UN envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, read a statement from Aung San Suu Kyi that she is "ready to cooperate with the government in order to make this process of dialogue a success." This is the same person who won the Nobel Peace Prize for, um, not cooperating with the miltary junta; who chose to stay in the country to serve as a symbol for her supporters rather than tend to her dying husband; and who hasn't been allowed out of the house or made a single public statement since 2003. Until the press conference, which was held in Singapore and not attended by Suu Kyi, Gambari's trip was thought to have failed, but now he's been invited back by the junta, who is trumpeting Suu Kyi's statement in the government-run media. (Yes, I read too much political news. Yes, I might be a paranoid and mistrustful person). [Yahoo News] More »