Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007 by Insider
Now banned in Tehran, the “metrosexual” look
From Reuters:
Iranian police have warned barbers against offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their male customers, Iranian media said on Sunday.
Violators (of Iran’s Islamic Sharia law) can receive lashes, fines and imprisonment.
Iranian young men have in recent years started paying more attention to the way they [...]
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Monday, April 30th, 2007 by Chad
Faced with a growing public awareness that the official account of the World Trade Center collapse doesn’t meet muster scientifically the US Government took drastic steps this weekend.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – A gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Sunday, creating such intense heat that a [...]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007 by Insider
From the Scotsman:
INFANT mortality in Afghanistan has fallen dramatically since the demise of the Taleban, according to a new study, with 40,000 fewer babies dying every year.
Improvements in women’s access to medical care since the Taleban were ousted from power five years ago was cited as the main reason for the death rate becoming significantly [...]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007 by Insider
It appears that Michelle Manhart has worked her way into the news again, by once again getting naked.
It should be noted that Manhart is only a celebrity because she took her clothes off and not because she did anything particularly worthy of getting attention. Now, because of her celebrity status, PETA has asked her [...]
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Posted in SexY, Not SexIST | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 27th, 2007 by Insider
…for having a beauty pageant for…camels!
“Camel pageant”
Of course people in Saudi Arabia probably think westerners are weird for our fascination with the female camel toe.
“Camel toe”
I guess each culture should be respected.
tags: camel toe
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 by Insider
Captain America, actually a Florida doctor donned in a bright blue Captain America outfit, was arrested on charges of battery, disorderly conduct, drug possession and trying to destroy evidence. (Link to story source).
On Saturday night, when a costume party full of medical professionals stopped at On Tap Cafe, police said Adamcik had a burrito [...]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 by Insider
KPFK, LA’s radically progessive radio radio station, hired Eva Georgia, a gay black African immigrant and expected that her recruitment would put them in the politically correct hall of fame. Instead it is another example of hiring for all of the wrong reasons (what the person looks like or represents as opposed to their character, [...]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007 by Chad
h/t Ace of Spades
Alec Baldwin explodes after his 11 year old daughter fails to answer the phone.
Audio
per tmz.com Baldwin has apologized to his daughter:
UPDATE: A friend of Alec Baldwin’s just contacted TMZ to say that the actor called Ireland last week and apologized for his outburst. The friend added that Ireland is the most important [...]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007 by Insider
A Washington woman was arrested last week following two car crashes and registered a whopping .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test — nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and possibly a state record. Yes, by herself she drank enough to put the starting five (plus the “6th man”) in jail for intoxication.
Deana F. [...]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007 by Insider
This young man (we’ll call him “Chad”) is working hard to capture that perfect image.
The kid could have a big future in blogging too.
upskirt
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007 by Chad
Indian actress Aishwarya Rai, who 60 minutes referred to as the most beautiful woman in the world, has wed a banana tree.
Seriously.
Apparently Ms. Rai is a manglik-dosh, which is an astrolgical term meaning “screwed”. Her horoscope has Mars in a bad position and in order to marry some Indian guy who doesn’t [...]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007 by Insider
It’s ironic that Scientologists are going to VA when the very teachings of their “church” is against the psychiatric treatment that Cho needed and might have averted the tragedy. In fact, if Scientologists had been in touch with Cho before the massacre they would have likely prescribed vitamins as they did with another psychotic killer, [...]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 by Insider
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 by Insider
We’re not writing about the VT massacre but as a public service here is a link to someone who is doing a very good job of covering it. For the 5 people in the world who haven’t yet seen the video below which Psy-Cho mailed to NBC we’ve embedded it below. (The package arrived only [...]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 by Insider
A father passing by his son’s bedroom was astonished to see the bed nicely made up and everything neat and tidy.
Then he saw an envelope propped up prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, “Dad” With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter with trembling hands:
- – – – – [...]
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Last time we looked, we were a "Large Mammal" in the TLB ecosystem.
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