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I Hope You Were At Least A Little Tipsy, Jesse Jackson

  • Want to hear Jesse Jackson say something embarrassing and regrettable about cutting Obama's nuts out that is probably even more regrettable considering the supposed context is some shit about how Barack Obama needs to stop focusing so much on taking black men to task for being bad role models? Then turn on O'Reilly at 8! Yeah, I'm choosing beer in this case. [Drudge]
  • Test missile launches always seem like the ten million dollar equivalent of showing up at your ex-boyfriend's party with some hot dude you blow at around midnight in the corner, in full view of at least three of his closest friends. Which is to say, they're just sort of inexplicably lame to me but it's the sort of behavior that shows you know exactly how to fuck with dudes. [WSJ]
  • Sure you can get mad at Obama for supporting this rotten warrantless wiretapping retroactive immunity crap, but do you really think "swing voters" would buy that he doesn't support the U.S. Constitution solely on grounds that he's an Allah-worshiping terrorist? [Salon]
  • Handy "analogy for the whole fucking economy" of the day #1: My grandfather's people are about to start getting paid in Euros. [WSJ]
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6:30 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Moe
3,288 views, 158 comments

Latest by arirang: JJ and others should stop talking down to Obama. Envy is a mean spirited thing. The huz is of mixed racial descent and you know what his take was? BO is for better or worse caught in that quandry of being more »

the right to bare arms

Beach-Loving Turkish Women: In Hot Water

Over the weekend, E! aired a nauseating show called 30 Best & Worst Beach Bodies. Talking heads lauded Fergie for being fit, while saying things like "Star Jones should not be in a bikini" and that, instead of a brief Euro swim trunks, Arnold Schwarzenegger should wear a T-shirt and long shorts. Apparently, the beach is not just for enjoying the sea breeze and a refreshing dip in the water: in the U.S., it's for judging the bodies of others. And in Turkey, the beach is a hotbed of controversy. Islamic tourism is the fastest-growing segment of Turkey's billion-dollar industry, reports the Independent. Islamic hotels have separate pools for men and women, though the beaches are no longer segregated (the coast is a "public space.") A well-known columnist, Nihal Bengisu Karaca, took her husband and son down some cliffs in search of secluded inlets to swim in. And when she did hit a beach, she wore a hasema, which she says looks "like a Ku Klux Klan cloak." More »

11:30 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Dodai
9,314 views, 112 comments

Latest by n/a: @OneTheyCallLuna: Word. I don't need anyone feeling sorry for me just because I'm uncomfortable being half-naked in front of strangers. I grew up in a culture where wearing a tank top and showing off your arms was immodest. I may wear more »

Historic data suggests that the first shelter for abused women was in Istanbul — in the late 1600s. Women escaping abusive husbands or fathers were allowed sanctuary at the Hatuniye convents (otherwise known as the Karılar dervish convent) on the grounds of a religious complex that included a mosque. The convent operated as a sanctuary for such women to live independent from men until at leas the 1850s. According to Fatma Sedes, the researcher who found the complex: "There is a misperception that everything starts in the West. But we see that the Ottomans also had similar institutions." It's sad, though, that they remain necessary after all these years. Maybe we could all work on that together? [The F Word]

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leftovers

LI Teens Try To Rob Michael Kors• Turkish Gov't Tells Women To Stop Being So Sexy

Three Long Island teens were caught breaking into Michael Kors' Fire Island home! Bet he has nice stuff. • A cow rammed a woman in the stomach and the resulting injury prompted her to visit the doctor, where she discovered she had cervical cancer. If it could, the cow would say, "Hey lady, you're welcome. • More Canadian women are "in love" than Canadian men, surely because women are clingy, emotional freaks! • A 16-year-old Texan girl-whiz was denied valedictorian status because she finished school too quickly. • A female boob-flasher was sentenced to a week in jail . Will prison turn her into a girl gone mild? • Islamic Turkish government to women: Stop being so hot. Secular Turkish people to government: STFU. • Women are better than men at remembering faces and words, and have better long-term memory based on personal experiences. • Just in time to ruin your summer: A list of the most fattening ice cream flavors. • "Real-life Carrie Bradshaw" and Cosmo blogger spends $489.50 less than Carrie on a typical Friday, and $280 more than us on a typical weekend! • Blunt-talking madam "introduction-maker" is trying to crash in on Millionaire Matchmaker's territory. • The more your breasts jiggle in exercise, the more chest pain you will have. • Psh, female bloggers are totally mainstream now. • Cuddly pets are now becoming big issues in divorce settlements.

5:00 PM on Thu May 29 2008
By Maria
1,344 views, 106 comments

Latest by boss_lady: Thank god going topless is as legal for women as it is for men here in home sweet Ontario. more »

leftovers

Ladies Need More Ladies' Rooms • Japanese Women Embrace Running

Kathyrn Anthony of the American Restroom Association wants a nationwide law requiring architects to build more toilets for women than they do for men. "Until men have menstrual periods, until men get pregnant, or until men breast-feed or have babies, we'll always have a need for potty parity," she says. • Cartoonist Lynda Barry (who also wrote the amazing novel Cruddy) has a new book called What It Is. • In a study of 866 blue-collar workers, women and minorities were more prone to file grievances, although filing one was not necessarily effective. • 80% of scavengers in Delhi are women. • There is now a blood and urine test which will diagnose pre-eclampsia in pregnant women. • The number of Japanese who run more than twice a week is steadily increasing and most of the new runners are young women. • A new book by Juliet Miller explores creative destructiveness in women. "The gardener who concretes over the wilderness may be fed up with doing most of the nurturing in the family. Burning the dinner may mean wanting to change the world." • The country of Turkey is grappling with a culture of domestic violence; 1 in 3 married women is a victim of abuse. • A victim of alleged gangrape tore off her clothes in the police station because she was so frustrated that the accused were not being charged. • If mothers were paid for cooking, cleaning and caring for their families, they could easily earn a six figure salary. • Holy cow! This bovine is as big as an elephant!

5:30 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Dodai
1,278 views, 49 comments

Latest by little stripes: I suddenly have to pee. more »

dirt bag

Amy Attempts To See Blake Incarcerated, Misses Visiting Hours

  • Amy Winehouse arrived at Pentonville prison for a visit with the hubs wearing a puffy heart-shaped pin that read "Blake." Unfortunately, she was turned away, because she was late and visiting hours were over. These tears dry on their own. [The Sun]
  • Rikki Rockett of Poison was arrested on a rape warrant as he stepped off of a flight from New Zealand at LAX on Monday. Can Bret Michaels stop frenching blow-up dolls long enough to help an old friend out? [TMZ]
  • Grey's Anatomy hottie Justin Chambers speaks out about his sleep disorder: "It's a biological sleep disorder. Your mind keeps racing, and your body is tired. It wants to go to sleep, but it can't." Hmm, maybe that's why he has 5 kids? [People]
  • "I'm not sure I can sing 'Holiday' or 'Like A Virgin' ever again. I just can't. Unless somebody paid me like $30 million or something. [Like if] some Russian guy wants me to come to the wedding he's going to have to a 17-year-old." —Madonna. [People]
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9:00 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Dodai
5,329 views, 95 comments

Latest by Strangdog: "Confessions on the Dance Floor" is my Madonna fave. I'm a 70s disco baby, too. The hell with anticipating Winehouse's sobriety, it's all about "30 Rock", damnit! more »

turkey talk

Happy Thanksgiving (And Try Not To Die)

"This week marks the beginning of the gluttony season," reads an article in the The New York Times today, going on tolist the frightening things that can happen to you after you gorge yourself on turkey and stuffing. In addition to indigestion, flatulence and the need to unbutton your pants, did you know that big meals can raise the risk of heart attack, gallbladder pain and dangerous drowsiness on the drive home?

The average American eats about 4,500 calories and 229 grams of fat on Thanksgiving. "It's like a tsunami of fat," says Dr. Pamela Peeke, assistant clinical professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. That's right! Just like the tsunami devastated Sri Lanka, your insides will be drowning in fat! Oh, and you think you're going to avoid some of that fat, because you eat white meat and not dark? There's barely any difference in fat and calories between white meat and dark meat, researchers report.

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10:30 AM on Tue Nov 20 2007
By dodai
2,641 views, 139 comments

axis of don't be evil

Horny Sex-Starved Countries Can't Stop Googling "Sex"!

Who Googles "sex"? Funny you should ask! Today the New York Post declared that Turkey and Egypt were the top Googlers of "sex." (Oooooh, Allah-worshipers have libidos also whodathunk???) Anyway this discovery was reached with the help of Google Trends, an ingenious service of the company that tries not to be evil so as not to rob its users of the fun of doing that themselves. And wow! "Sex" is googled most often by people who are in countries where social/religious mores are such that you'd expect them to be kinda hard up, unless that scene in Darjeeling Limited was actually realistic, which if it was would have been helped if the actress had actually sounded at all Indian. And those places are! Egypt.... Morocco... Bombay... Ankara.... Amsterdam??? So wait? Are Amsterdamians repressed too? We tried the trick on a few other search terms to figure it out. And we're still confused! Seattle — does all the frantic Internet searching of the female orgasm yielded your G-spot yet? More »

1:00 PM on Thu Oct 18 2007
By Moe
2,080 views, 30 comments

Latest by n/a: Some of these allah worshipper's propably get so excited that by the time they actually start the foreplay it is over and than they just roll over and go to sleep, leaving thir partners unhappy.The next day it is the more »

rag trade

What A Dildo: Designer Tom Ford's Phallic Fragrance

  • Will someone please explain to us what Tom Ford has against women? In addition to the image at left, the new ads for his Tom Ford for Men fragrance feature a fully-naked woman with an oversized bottle of the fragrance "wedged" between her thighs. [WWD, 1st item]
  • Speaking of fragrance, the latest Estee Lauder fragrance being shilled by Gwyneth Paltrow smells like marshmallows. If anything makes us gag more than Gwyneth, it's the idea of smelling like S'mores. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • More proof that the fashion industry sorta sucks: Ann Taylor's chief marketing officer has thrown in the towel. [WSJ]
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10:00 AM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Jennifer
17,904 views, 43 comments

Latest by n/a: As I was studying the ad I couldn't keep my eyes from moving over to the Jaison Crockett art photo to the left--its very mysterious and Southern Gothic, completely staged, and yet very natural in that the woman is clearly more »

has 350 calories, which would be 60 MORE than an egg McMuffin. How is this possible? Fuck Starbucks and their hidden caloric content in everything. Does this make us hypocrites? Probably! What else is new? [Slashfood]

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end of days

Lohan To Rejoin Her Coke-Filled Community One 12-Step At A Time

  • Lindsay Lohan signs up for a Promises outpatient program designed to enable her to "transition" back into her "community"...of cokehead pseudo-socialites. [People.com]
  • France snubs Turkey in EU talks. We think this has to do with Istanbul beating out Paris in that Newsweek story on "fashion forward" cities. [BBC]
  • The most interesting part of the whole "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case? That the word 'bong" was defined for the judges in the appeal. Oh c'mon, Scalia — don't pretend like you and Clarence Thomas don't toke up during recess. [CNN]
  • In other legal news, it's now on the books that "customer satisfaction" and a missing pair of pants are not worth $54 million. [ABC News]
  • At a campaign event last night, Hillary Clinton exited to KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See." Could Hillary be replacing her Canadian soft-rock campaign song with an English one? [NBC News]
  • Kelly Clarkson was bulimic and Jordin Sparks has learned to love her figure: If you have body image issues and one helluva voice get ready — American Idol auditions start July 30 in a city near you. [USA Today]
  • It's official: Rosie O'Donnell will not be successding Bob Barker. And we are sad. Because we really wanted to see her try to fit some anti-warmongering into her oral description of "a neeww RV!" [E!]
  • 15 U.S. casualties identified since Friday. [DoD]
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7:07 PM on Mon Jun 25 2007
By Jennifer
776 views, 4 comments

Latest by Heatherly: When did Lindsay Lohan become JT Leroy? Is that the big secret about JT, then? That s/he's actually Lindsay? more »