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Archive for September, 2006

Stupid is as stupid does

Monday, September 18th, 2006 by Insider

Look at what moronic things people can do when they lack challenges to overcome.”Stupid is as stupid does.”

On the flipside, it is just plain motivating to see what the human spirit can accomplish:

I’d like to see this in the X-Games. As for the idiots in the top video, please tell me why MTV’s Rock the […]

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Does Going Bald Lead To Affairs With Male Prostitutes?

Monday, September 18th, 2006 by A Senior Administration Official

Mark Oaten was a member of (UK) Parliament, a husband with a wife and two children, and a leader of the Liberal Democrat party.
Then his battle with hair loss drove him into the arms of a male prostitute.
Oh, and the “pressure of work and turning 40.”
It’s a little more sophisticated than Eddie Murphy’s “I was […]

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Mom smokes pot with son but only after he finishes his homework

Sunday, September 17th, 2006 by Insider

Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, pleaded guilty to several charges last Monday including smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework. She has been doing this with him since he was 11.
The woman also said she also smoked marijuana with two of her son’s friends, ages 17 and 18, and […]

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“Thong Girl 3″ filmed in Mayor’s office; earns our vote

Saturday, September 16th, 2006 by Insider

Finally a mayor of the people!

Mayor “Horn Dog”
Reuters:

“I had no idea what the movie was about,” [Gallatin, Tennessee, Mayor Don] Wright said on Friday. “They told me it was about a superhero woman and there was no nudity or offensive stuff in it. Other than that, I really didn’t have a clue.”
Sure you didn’t.
According to […]

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Read a chapter from the book that has Tom Cruise’s people scrambling

Saturday, September 16th, 2006 by Insider

From Hollywood Interrupted:
“We went into the back of the house where Tom Cruise was sitting on a small sofa. A mat had been spread out on the floor. Cruise, dressed in what looked like a body suit, looked so cute. Either a black or very dark navy blue body suit for wrestling. He had on […]

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Jessica Biel subject of lesbian rumors again

Saturday, September 16th, 2006 by Chad

Not living in LA I am not really up on all the Hollywood gossip, but apparently the rumor is Jessica Biel (the wild daughter from 7th Heaven) is a Lesbian. The superficial.com is building a photographic case to prove she is.
On one hand this bums me out because she was on my […]

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Popbitch at the MTV VMA’s

Friday, September 15th, 2006 by Insider

Popbitch reports that an MTV producer was overheard complaining that “we’ve lost control of the backstage area due to all the guns being sneaked in!” Bodes well for next year.
In other VMA news, a female stage manager was beaten up by the entourage of a very famous hip-hop star, just because she tried […]

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Yahoo Sports shows it’s ready for the major leagues

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Insider

In exposing the numerous payments to former USC star Reggie Bush and showing how he and his family were on the take for much of the latter part of Bush’s career at USC, Yahoo Sports shows that it is far more than an aggregater of AP stories.
As papers such as the Los Angeles Times dwindle […]

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Islamic Cleric Not Just a Terrorist; Also a good celebrity lookalike

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Insider

Ace of Spades thinks UK terrorist cleric Abu Abdullah looks like Liam Neeson. Exhibit A below.
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Independent Sources thinks he’s a better William Hurt. Exhibit B below.

What do you think?
Update: Dano says he’s a Peter Sellers‘ call.

Update: Onion says it’s more of an Albert Brooks call:

Update: Onion has now modified his discription to be part […]

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Sham: AT&T Rents Widow a ‘rotary’ phone for 42 years charging her $14,000 in the process; says it’s just satisfying “demand”

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Insider

“Digital divide” meets the “generation gap.”
First off, I’m kind of surprised rotary phones even still work with all of the required number punching to do squat. She must have spent ages on hold waiting for an operator to pick up any time she called a company with any form of automated operator. Second, 82 years […]

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“Dog the Bounty Hunter” arrested possibly headed for Mexican Prison

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Chad

Federal Marshall’s in Hawaii arrested Duane “Dog” Chapman, the star of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” today. The arrest was made at the request of Mexican Authorities and stems from a 2003 incident in which Chapman and two others apprehended Max Factor heir Andrew Lustre. Bounty Hunting is a crime in Mexico.
If convicted Chapman […]

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Woman gives birth to 14-pound, 13-ounce boy; “too big for newborn diapers”

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Insider

Nearly 23 inches long, too!

That’s a big baby.
Story here.

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Onion: FSU to phase out academics; will focus exclusively on athletics

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Insider

As reported in The Onion:
SARASOTA, FL—Bowing to pressure from alumni, students, and a majority of teaching professors of Florida State University, athletic director Dave Hart Jr. announced yesterday that FSU would completely phase out all academic operations by the end of the 2010 school year in order to make athletics the school’s No. 1 priority. […]

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Why not to believe Air America’s bankruptcy denials

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Insider

Let’s look at the arguments for bankruptcy:
Reports that Rob Glaser, the Real Networks founder who rescued the 2-year-old network from its first financial crisis, “walked away last week” and took his moneybags with him.”
They laid off six people this week.
They deleted Jerry Springer from it’s lineup (he returns to independent syndication).
They haven’t been able to […]

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Montreal Shooter Was a Goth but that doesn’t mean that all those in trench coats are killers (just some of them)

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 by Insider

Killer’s website notes that he’d like to die:

Like Romeo and Juliet -or- In a hail of gunfire

photo: F*ck The Mainstream Catalog
I like Goth culture, music, and fashion but have to admit that it looks a little bad for the vampire crowd when one of their own goes off and starts shooting people again like the […]

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