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A random roundup of humorous, odd, weird and WTF articles. This week: The Japanese are back, naked guy shoots a SWAT robot, Toronto's Slut Walk, gay cavemen, guy torches his girlfriend's apartment in a "fecal rampage", big boobs too scary for French mayor, a taco shootout, and a wayward javelin through the hip and out the ass...that'll leave a mark.A random roundup of humorous, odd, weird and WTF articles. This week: The Japanese are... more
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Kourtney Kardashian tells Kim about painful post-pregnancy sex. 'It was very painful. It felt like a metal pole is literally ramming you in the crotch.' Kourtney also reveals that because she is breastfeeding her estrogen is low and during sex she she's not 'very juicy down there,' but she is embarrassed to buy lube. Uhuh.
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
The woman gunning for Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) job doesn’t believe that autism exists.
Yes, you heard right. Sharron Angle believes that the neurodevelopmental disorder know to medical science as “autism” is actually a government-backed hoax to redistribute wealth from hardworking health insurers to pesky kids and their greedy parents.
Angle was caught on tape promising to abolish mandatory insurance coverage for autism. “Everything that they want to throw at us is covered under ‘autism’,” Angle told the American Association of Underwriters this summer, tracing scare quotes with her fingers as she said “autism.”
Care2’s Kristina Chew, the mother of a 13-year-old boy with autism, responds to Angle’s airy dismissal:
…By saying that you don’t think there should be health care for autism, I take it that you don’t think that children, and individuals, with disabilities are in need of such things—living with their families and in their communities, healthy and safe, being loved and cared for? Being treated as we would all like to be?
The fact that Angle opposes mandated coverage for private insurers should concern voters, especially since she wants to privatize all government health care programs. In other words, Angle wants to turn health care over to the private sector and stamp out public competition. And yet, Angle’s campaign admits that the candidate and her husband receive both government health care and a Civil Service pension, according to Eric Kleefeld of TPM. If Angle is so morally opposed to government health care, she should set an example by declining the coverage.
Andy Kroll of Mother Jones has more on Angle’s record: She once told impregnated rape victims to buck up and make “lemons out of lemonade” by bearing their attacker’s child. Angle also denounced people on unemployment insurance as “spoiled.”
Food vs. health care
It may soon get even harder for poor families to make ends meet. The Senate is poised to slash the extra food stamp benefits in the stimulus before they expire. The Senate already raided $6.7 billion from the the so-called “food stamp cookie jar” to bail out Medicaid and save teachers’ jobs at the state level. Now they want to take even more money to fund the child nutrition bill.
The cuts would fund a marginal improvement in school lunches, notes Monica Potts of TAPPED. That’s all well and good, but why provide slightly better weekday lunches if the poorest children get less at every other meal?
Annie Lowery of the Washington Independent interviews anti-hunger activist Joel Berg about the cuts. Berg says that if the cuts go through, families will have to make do with considerably less than the current $4.50 per person per day. He notes that Congress wants to cut food stamp benefits in the face of rising food prices.
When families make do with less, healthy foods like fruits and vegetables will be the first casualty. Berg argues that it is economically short-sighted to prematurely terminate one of the most efficient economic stimuli in the entire stimulus package:
And we know that we aren’t only feeding people. We come at this from a moral position, a nutritional position, and an economic recovery position. This cut is so insane from an economic position as well — we know food stamps are the most effect form of stimulus. The jury is still out on parts of the stimulus — but the jury isn’t out on food stamps. It was a 1,000 percent, beyond home run grand slam success, if you’ll excuse me mixing metaphors. The money went to people who needed it, rapidly, and without a lot of bureaucracy.
In the Progressive, Ruth Conniff has a personal take on the politics of improving school lunches. Her kids’ school got a USDA Fresh Fruits and Vegetables grant to introduce more local produce into school meals.
“Bridalplasty”
The laws of Reality TV: 1) The most important thing in life is to be very beautiful so that a man will want to marry you; 2) You have until your wedding day to make yourself look like someone else.
The E! network is launching a new reality show in which brides-to-be receive free cosmetic surgery to make them look acceptable for their Special Day, as Stephanie Hallett reports at Ms. blog. Hallett notes that armchair psychiatrists are already diagnosing the contestants with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, a condition that causes sufferers to become obsessed with imagined physical imperfections.
Hallett also argues that competitive plastic surgery shows like Bridalplasty and The Swan are dramatic exaggerations. Labeling the contestants as “sick” or “crazy” implies that they are limited-edition freaks, not individuals on the extreme end of a continuum of self-loathing that affects most women.
Ectopic pregnancy
Anti-choicers have already attacked hormonal birth control as crypto-abortion. Their next target may be lifesaving surgery for a deadly complication of pregnancy. At RH Reality Check, Lon Newman writes about a young woman that survived a life threatening ectopic pregnancy.
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg takes root outside the uterus, nearly always in a fallopian tube. Tubal pregnancies are among the deadliest gynecological emergencies because the woman can rapidly bleed to death if the tube ruptures. Obviously, once a fertilized egg takes root outside the uterus, there is no chance that it will survive. However, some anti-choice extremists still maintain that treating ectopic pregnancies is a kind of abortion.
One of the ectopic pregnancy survivor’s friends actually told her that she should have respected “God’s will” and refused lifesaving surgery. “I have had friends who said that I should have ‘gone with God’s will,’ imposing their beliefs on my will to live,” the woman said.
Some friend.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian, the stars of E! reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, earned record ratings with their premiere Sunday night. The stellar ratings made the show the series’ most watched season opener ever with almost 4.7 million viewers.Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian, the stars of E! reality show Keeping Up With the... more
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It seems like everyone on television has something to say about poop lately! From Tyra to National Geographic, we've got the best of who's been covering the back end.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi, Sergio Cilli and Erin Gibson, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV.It seems like everyone on television has something to say about poop lately! From Tyra... more
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TV REVIEW: ‘Pretty Wild’
LA Times
By ROBERT LLOYD
Western civilization comes just a littler closer to its final collapse Sunday with the premiere of “Pretty Wild,” the latest hot-chicks reality series from E!, already home to “The Girls Next Door,” “Kendra” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
Alexis Neiers E! “Pretty Wild” TV Review…19 yo Co-Star Tess Taylor’s Nude Photos…+HOT VIDEO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/alexis-neiers-e-pretty-wild-tv-review-19-yo-co-star-tess-taylors-nude-photos-hot-video/
At some point in its development this would have been sold as the story of a former (but still hot) Playboy model and her three hot daughters, but it has since become the story of a former Playboy model, one of whose hot daughters is an alleged member of the so-called Bling Ring, the gang of junior sneak thieves who lifted some $3 million of stuff from the homes of younger-set Hollywood celebrities in 2008 and 2009.TV REVIEW: ‘Pretty Wild’
LA Times
By ROBERT LLOYD
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The awards season would not be complete without getting a gay man to cover those horrific fashions!
That's Gay is a recurring segment on the weekly television show infoMania. In each episode of That's Gay, Bryan Safi explores gay issues and stereotypes as they are portrayed by the clueless media. For more Bryan visit http://current.com/groups/thats-gay/ and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.The awards season would not be complete without getting a gay man to cover those... more
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Conor Knighton takes a look at a not-so-hilarious prank from 'The Girls Next Door' as part of his weekly roundup of the week in media. Also includes the G.O.P.'s new web site, Rachel Zoe's show literally coming to an end, too much info on 'Twilight,' 'Making the Team,' Lady GaGa, and a milestone for gays on game shows.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Conor Knighton takes a look at a not-so-hilarious prank from 'The Girls Next... more
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Conor Knighton looks at the President's all-out media assault. In his look at the week in media, he also looks at Regis giving Kelly a wiener-shaped eggplant, Emmy Awards fashion police, Wolf Blitzer's Jeopardy fail, Tom Delay going 'Dancing with the Stars,' and more crazy conspiracy theory charts form Glenn Beck.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Conor Knighton looks at the President's all-out media assault. In his look at the... more
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In his weekly roundup of the crazy world of 24-hour media madness, Conor Knighton looks at magician Criss Angel's douchiest move. This week he also looks at Woodstock coverage, the news going crazy over drugs, smoking and drinking, Michael Vick's advice for kids, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian's new show, and P Diddy's Superstars.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.In his weekly roundup of the crazy world of 24-hour media madness, Conor Knighton... more
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This week on infoMania the news wants you to know they're hip to Woodstock's 40th anniversary, two shows that celebrate the strange joy of child beauty pageants, Bryan discovers that lesbian kisses equal TV ratings gold, Sergio looks at the hottest pop videos on YouTube, and Brett explores the free health care option that is the world wide web.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.This week on infoMania the news wants you to know they're hip to Woodstock's... more
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The people have spoken, and the people are sick and tired of "Speidi." After an overwhelming viewer vote, E! has announced it will ban "The Hills" villains Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag-Pratt from the network.
For now.
An estimated 94% of those who responded to an E! poll said they were tired of seeing the couple's "self-promoting press" and wanted the network to stop talking about them. Network officials say they'll no longer cover "the misadventures of Speidi until the pair does something truly newsworthy."
"If her album went to No. 1, that would be a newsworthy thing. If they were to become parents, we'd see that as worth noting. If something did happen to them, physically, we'd probably cover that.
"But ultimately, we were looking at it more like avoiding stories about them walking down Robertson or going to dinner," Suzanne Kolb, chief marketing officer for Comcast Entertainment group and general manager of E! Online, told the Daily News. "It will affect the various news shows on E! and it will affect online."
Now if only we could get them banned from all the other networks.The people have spoken, and the people are sick and tired of "Speidi." After... more
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The people have spoken, and the people are sick and tired of "Speidi." After an overwhelming viewer vote, E! has announced it will ban "The Hills" villains Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag-Pratt from the network.
For now.
An estimated 94% of those who responded to an E! poll said they were tired of seeing the couple's "self-promoting press" and wanted the network to stop talking about them. Network officials say they'll no longer cover "the misadventures of Speidi until the pair does something truly newsworthy."
"If her album went to No. 1, that would be a newsworthy thing. If they were to become parents, we'd see that as worth noting. If something did happen to them, physically, we'd probably cover that.
"But ultimately, we were looking at it more like avoiding stories about them walking down Robertson or going to dinner," Suzanne Kolb, chief marketing officer for Comcast Entertainment group and general manager of E! Online, told the Daily News. "It will affect the various news shows on E! and it will affect online."
Kolb said the network took note of viewers' growing ire at the couple and internal questions about the validity of the reality duo's fame, especially in light of their recent run on NBC's "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here," during which they quit twice and made spectacles of themselves.
"It was just a question of overexposure and wondering how much of the news about them was truly news or contrived. It just started to feel as if they had maybe jumped a shark in the past couple of weeks and it might be time to just take a rest," said Kolb. "It wasn't really one particular instance, it just seemed like they'd reached a point where they crossed a line in the interest level of our audience."
Hence the vote.
"We really didn't know which way it would go," said Kolb. "They're a controversial couple, and we didn't know if people were done with them or not. But we went into it knowing that whatever they decided, we would do. We're prepared to live by the vote."
Kolb says she hasn't yet heard from Pratt or Montag-Pratt about the decision.
The couples' rep told the Daily News that the duo was unable to comment on the story, as they were in Costa Rica, but "it's not worth a comment."
So will banning annoying celebs become a trend at E?
"We're not interested in making not covering people the normal course of things. We're going to be doing exactly the opposite," said Kolb. "Online, we're going to list a whole bunch of up-and-comers and ask, 'Who do you want to hear more about?'
"When it's all said and done, we're just trying to continue to be a purveyor of what's going on in pop culture and cover who people are currently interested in."The people have spoken, and the people are sick and tired of "Speidi." After... more
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Dirty questions from Ryan Seacrest on the Grammys Red Carpet; Al Green, Bono, Jamie Fox, Jay Z, Lil Wayne, M.I.A, LL Cool J, Kid Rock, Diddy, T.I., and T-Pain all rocking indoor shades; the skanks of MTV's new reality TV show "The Girls of Hedsor Hall;" A-Rod talks about steroids on ESPN's SportsCenter; Stump wins Best in Show at the 133rd Westminster Kennel Club dog show; and Fox News pundit Sean Hannity is anti-fearmongering when it comes to President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package. Conor Knighton serves it all up in his weekly look at the top stories you may have missed from the crazy 24-hour world of media madness.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Dirty questions from Ryan Seacrest on the Grammys Red Carpet; Al Green, Bono, Jamie... more
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