Lost And Found
Friday feel-good alert! In 1991, 6-year old
Lopez Lomong was snatched from his family and taken by Sudanese rebels to be one of the numerous child soldiers who came to be known as the "
Lost Boys of the Sudan." Lopez was eventually able to escape and was ultimately discovered in a work camp by Catholic Charities, who placed him with an American family in upstate New York, where he quickly became a cross-country and track star. "In my country, soccer players are athletes," he said. "But runners? Everybody runs. You want to go to a neighbor's house, you run. You want to go to school, you run." Now, Lopez is competing in the
Beijing Olympics. More remarkable still, he's been reunited with his birth family, who had long assumed their son was dead. (In the movie version, he'll obviously win Gold.) [
The Guardian]
news roundup
- Cudmudgeonly uncle-anchor Jack Cafferty has disappointed millions of women everywhere by saying, "Viagra is used to treat a medical condition, erectile dysfunction. Birth control is a lifestyle choice," when discussing John McCain's little birth control gaffe. Jack, sweetie, birth control pills do treat medical conditions and there's a good economic argument (pregnancy is expensive) for covering them. Erectile dysfunction, however, is God's way of telling you to keep it in your pants, old man. [Crooks & Liars]
- John McCain has proved a disappointment to the Secret Service by letting slip details of Barack Obama's highly secret-for-his-own-safety trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. Man, he really will do anything to keep playing his commercial about how Obama's never been. [Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic]
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Universal Harassment
In a
recent survey that could hurt Egypt's tourism industry, two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to harassing women and most of them blame women for wearing tight clothes and not being home by 8 pm. Of course, harassment is defined as everything from hollering at and ogling women to whipping it out and groping (more commonly referred to here as "crimes for which one can be jailed") but, regardless, foreign women and Egyptian women have one thing in common — they don't like it.
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Loose Lips
Britney will now be paying K-Fed
$20,000 a month in child support. She was previously paying him $15,000. In return, she's getting more authorized overnights with her kids. β’ Have you seen these pics of
Katie Holmes'
creepy purple hands? According to Perez she is doing some bizarre Scientology ritual called Purification Rundown or "Purif" which involves taking "vitamin bombs" to remove "toxins" from the body. Uh, OK then! β’
Khloe Kardashian actually looks
really pretty in her mug shot. Not really an accomplishment, but there it is. [
People,
Perez,
TMZ ]
Leftovers
Sad news: Remember that baby
red panda that was
adopted by a domestic cat and her four kittens? The panda
died, apparently after choking on milk. β’ Russia's booming economy (combined with weak borders and no laws for victim's rights) means more
sex slaves and human trafficking. β’ An Army training plan to
shoot live pigs and treat their wounds to teach medics how to treat wounded soldiers has angered PETA. β’ A woman with a previous charge of plotting to steal another woman's infant claims to have
bought a baby for $1,000 from an unknown woman.
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Missdemeanors
Welcome back to Missdemeanors, in which we issue virtual wrist-slaps to popular
gossip bloggers for Crimes Against Womanity. This week,
Eva Longoria is fat and
Miley Cyrus is a slut. That's all anyone wanted to blog about...really. (Remember ladies! In gossip blog land you can never be too thin or too virginal.) As usual, the continued degradation of female celebrities and their corresponding punishments, after the jump. Let the Jezebel Justice system begin!
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Reader Roundup
Best Comment of the Day, in response to
The Milky Way: "Oh good, a conversation piece for those occasions where my pearl necklace would be too formal." We say: it depends on what kind of "pearl necklace" you're talking about. β’
Worst, in response to
Loose Lips: "Not surprised in the least about Salma Hayek. I called this one the first time I heard the 'e' word. She only wanted the kid. And got a billionaire to cover the expenses for the kid for the rest of her life. And that whole "engaged" thing was just to make her pregnancy seem more socially acceptable. He wasn't just a bucket of sperm to her...it was looooooove. Until enough time went by so that she could dump him and still maintain some credibility." We say: Jesus, woman: did Salma Hayek take a hit out on your
dog or something?
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