This video of Mitt Romney flipping out on a Des Moines radio host in 2007 has gone viral-ish. While Romney's insistence on a set of beliefs that many Americans (who believe in just as strange, albeit more popular things) would interpret as bizarre is unsettling, what's strangest about the video is how this 2007 version …
Who Is Mitt Romney's Pop Culture Twin?
According to German folklore, doppelgängers are sort of like evil twins, spiritual negatives who look identical to living people but who are actual paranormal presences who walk the earth causing rambunction. Since he lumbered onto the national scene in 2008, I've struggled to determine where I've seen Mitt Romney's…
Headdesk-y Miss USA Contestant Can't Name a Positive Female Role Model
Wanna hear something bananas? A contestant at this weekend's Miss USA Pageant (A.K.A. The Susan B. Anthony Consortium for High-Minded Ladies) was asked a question about positive depictions of women in pop culture and ended up saying something dumb. Can we continue or was your computer totally ruined by your surprised…
State Department Kids Treated to Educational Lecture About Hookers
The Secret Service's failure to be serviced in secret is now the hottest topic in DC area elementary schools after yesterday's ill-advised Take Your Child to Work Day at the US State Department. The State Department just so happens to be investigating a certain Secret Service for having certain sex with certain hookers …
Molly Ringwald Tells Reddit Secret of Youth is 'Blood of Kristen…
Reddit, the internet's sometimes lovable, often exasperating socially awkward child prodigy of a brother, occasionally invites celebrities (and meme subjects) to answer questions from the site's commentariat. Last night, former Brat Packer and current grown up actress Molly Ringwald offered herself as an interview…
Pageant Mom Defends Dressing 3-Year-Old As Pretty Woman Prostitute
Wendy Dickey, the mom whose 3-year-old daughter wore a hooker getup for a Pretty Woman routine on Toddlers & Tiaras, defended her costume choices to TMZ, saying the child-size sex worker ensemble is "less revealing than gymnastics wear and swimsuits," and "a lot less harmful." Earlier, we pointed out
Beauty Schooled: It’s Blog for Fair Pay Day!
You'd be forgiven for thinking that the Paycheck Fairness Act (currently pending in the Senate) is a little off topic for a blog about the beauty industry, seeing as the vast majority of beauty industry workers are female:
Anonymous Prostitute Blogs About Condoms, Sex... And Healthcare Reform
Now that Belle de Jour
Zoe Kravitz For Vera; Mary-Kate & Ashley Close Beauty Line
- Zoe Kravitz, negotiating the transition from Famous Daughter to Celebrity, has committed the necessary act of being photographed by Bruce Weber for a perfume campaign. Vera Wang was the lucky partner in fame-chasing. Shall we expect a reality show? [People]
Back To School: John School. No Trapper Keepers Needed.
John schools - a combination of shaming and education - tries to make johns feel like the criminals, for a change. Questions: Does it work? (And how much better an ending to Pretty Woman would that have been?)
