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Two 12-year old Girl Scouts from Ann Arbor, MI, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, have refused to go door to door shilling cookies this year upon learning that Tagalongs, Thin Mints and other Troop-approved sugary confections are made using palm oil, which, due to harvesting methods, is not only incredibly damaging to the environment but to Indonesian orangutans. Says Vorva, "We've seen pictures of orangutans set afire and beaten. You really want to reach out and do all you can to help save them." [UPI]
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Are Girls Too Busy Giving Blow Jobs To Engage In Girl Scoutlike Empowering Shit Anymore? (And Are We?)
Oh, here is some news sure to shock you: the Girl Scouts, like pretty much every secular civic organization in the country, are struggling to stay relevant! They're offering 100-calorie cookies and new ads aimed at appealing to girls' senses of "individuality." They've hired their first Chief Marketing Officer to study why the group's rolls persist to so steadily decline, and...well...basically they all seem to be dancing around the word 'blowjobs.' "The group discovered its main competition for members wasn't the sports teams or church groups it suspected, but rather what it calls 'nonactivities,'" the story explains. (Cough.) Explains Girl Scouts chief executive Kathy Cloninger: "Girls start hanging out at the mall, spending time online or just being with their friends, and basically become 'nonjoiners' — that's [what] we were losing the most girls to." Sigh. I hate to tell you this, Kath, but the battle has been lost. More »
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Marion Cotillard: 911 Is A Joke
- Oscar winner Marion Cotillard has conspiracy theories! She questions the attack on the World Trade Center towers: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there (in New York), in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed." Plus! She doubts Neil Armstrong! "Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered," she says. "I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure." [Variety]
- Are Britney and Adnan Ghalin dunzo? Did she throw his iPhone into the pool after finding "saucy" texts from another woman? [The Sun]
- Jennifer Lopez has indeed, as previously reported, named her twins Max and Emme. A reader points out that those were the names of the kids in the cartoon Dragon Tales. WTF? [CNN, YouTube]
- Colin Farrell is hooked on Russian steam baths. "There's something very basic about rubbing honey on your skin and going steaming with a bunch of strange Russian men," he says. Well, it's healthier than drugs and alcohol, for sure. [UPI]
