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@mmasters12 I don't know or care what Sam does. I want or have nothing to do with her, unless she affects my daughter in a negative wayless than a minute ago via Twitter for Android Favorite Retweet ReplyMichael LohanMichaelJLohan

Hey, did you read that Times story on the celebrity-media sexy pillow-fight that is our age? It is pretty [...]

Last year, the Army undertook a war crimes probe, with, as evidence, some 4000 photos and videos from Afghanistan. Which sound in some cases really bad, and in some cases, in extremely poor taste: posing next to dead bodies alone seems like a gross way to pass the time. Apparently people really get into this: "Soldiers have told investigators that such photos of dead bodies were passed around like trading cards on thumb drives and other digital storage devices." 12 soldiers in all have been charged, most of them for lesser crimes; five were charged regarding "premeditated murder." Now Der Spiegel has just published three of the photographs, [...]

Raiding the worst of the 80s, the Black Eyed Peas have released a semi-cover of the improbably titled "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," the Dirty Dancing-enabled monster-smash duet of late 1987. Were you there? It was terrible. Fortunately, the BEP have reduced the title to "The Time" because, words r long. And then they took a bath in Autotune. It fits nicely in their genre of "it's Friday night, let's get dressed to go out and dance in the mirror and everything is going to be awwweesssoommme" music. (All that being said, the synthy verse beat part of the song is kind of great, it's undeniable.) [...]

The very funny Party Down, which just aired its season-two finale, has been canceled by Starz. "After careful consideration," "grateful to everyone involved," "proud," said the corporate blah blah announcing the axing.

I am a proud American who paid to see Ghost Rider in the theater. You may remember it (I barely do!) as the movie in which Nic Cage is a flaming skull. I had to read the Wikipedia entry to make sense of the plot, involving as it does the devil's agent, a series of contracts and the devil's agent's angry son. (Like the film's own plot, the movie itself required about six years of contractual wrangling to even begin filming.) Well, apparently there is going to be a sequel! Without even Googling, I can think of ten sequels I would watch long before Ghost Rider.

"With the official start of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season Tuesday, a disaster-prone Haiti is far from ready for what meteorologists predict will be a heightened storm season with at least 15 named storms." Oh. YA THINK?

Seemingly sane people are taking the Webby Awards seriously. In 2010! Internet, we have all failed.

Unsurprisingly, I'm not particularly enjoying each morning's report from the New York City police offer rape trial. (Yeah, go figure.) Here's part one and here's part two, and it's a rotten thing to wake up and read. The story, in brief, is that a young woman came home to the East Village intoxicated; she needed help getting out of the cab, so the cabbie called 911; two cops arrived, took her in; paid the cab; and then they returned to her apartment three more times that night. (They said they were discussing her alcoholism with her, which, that's not something you do while someone has come home [...]

If you're worried that you haven't been horrified or upset enough today, click here: "The parrot was mimicking, 'Help me. Help me.' Then he would laugh," Bonnette said. "We think he was mimicking the mother when he said, 'Help me. Help me,' and mimicking the daughter when he laughed."

"We're asking so much more of men today. We want them to be great providers – but we also want them to get pedicures. We want them to be sensitive – but we also want them to be alpha males." -That's Cosmopolitan editor Kate White, proving why she's a high-paid executive in a time-bubble of 1998.

This is, to put it very plainly, a huge gay catastrophe! The tween clothing line that Madonna and her daughter Lola are doing for Macy's is getting pimped to high heaven, because it hits stores soon, and the latest bit of marketing is… a blog post. Written by Lola herself-a "From The iDesk of Lola" kind of thing, to rile up the tweens. It's sort of heartbreaking, actually. Beginning, as it does, "Helluuur thurrrr, I'm Lola and this is my first blog entry so it's kind of like ummmm….."

This decision by the Second Circuit that the NYPD can keep secret all its documentation about spying on Americans and making mass arrests at the 2004 Republican Convention (which cost the city millions in settlements, let's not forget) is a terrible piece of horseshit.

This account of being on the ground in Louisiana, where BP is really running the show, is pretty horrific. Have you felt like you've been unable to find any reporting from there? That is in part because pretty much everyone has ceded control of the actual physical territory to BP. Although the company is also occupied with scooping up spilled oil on the beaches-which makes Fake Sarah Palin's Twitter joke ("I'm so heartbroken about this spill in the gulf situation. All those animals. They're polluting our oil.") all that much more biting.

An unbelievable mining accident happened yesterday in West Virginia, killing 25, with 4 missing. The mine is owned by Performance Coal, a subsidiary of Massey Energy Co.-the "largest coal producer in Central Appalachia" which had a "record setting year for safety" in 2009. Also, you know: helmed by pretty much just evil, in the form of CEO Don Blankenship: "Union leaders say Mr. Blankenship, 56, is the main reason that less than a quarter of the state's coal miners are now organized, down from about 95 percent just three decades ago. And environmentalists describe him as the biggest force behind a highly destructive form of mining called [...]

The 11-year-old in Texas who was raped by a group of men was not, it turns out, asking for it, reports the paper of record, which was previously not really clear regarding the sixth-grader's ability to be considered a "proper" rape victim. (That is, when the paper wasn't overly concerned about the futures of the young men involved.) Yes, it's do-over time on the most outrageous story in the world, one that was so wildly mishandled that it prompted world-wide outcry and now… another, more thorough story—a story that is now about a "nightmarish ordeal." (You think?) It turns out the 11-year-old in question was a very [...]

"More than a third of California's African American public high school students dropped out before graduation day," according to the just-released 2009 data. (The actual number: 37%.) The state's superintendent of schools blamed this crazily outrageous number on cuts to schools; that, in part, "drastic cuts to summer school have prevented students from catching up on credits during the break." Overall, about 1 in 5 students drop out over four years.

ADL head Abe Foxman: still employed. Anthony Weiner and Chuck Schumer: still very, very quiet on the subject of GROUND ZERO TERROR MOSQUE.

Outfit that was already basically theft accused of more obvious theft! Since being raided by the feds last year, Taylor, Bean & Whitaker's decade-long attempt to make money out of nothing at all has not gone unpursued. The company, which bought and packaged millions of dollars in residential loans, including servicing mortgage loans for Freddie Mac, "filed for bankruptcy in August…. The lender began to experience cash flow problems in 2002 and in an effort to cover the shortfalls, the company devised a scheme to misappropriate funds from a bank and eventually did so as well from the federal government." To the tune of half a billion in TARP [...]

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The super-weird and super-invasive current strain of anti-single bias has popped up in a whole new Elena Kagan-centric way this past week. It was fine when people just thought she was a striving, careerist lesbian, because that's how lesbians are, but now that everyone actually understands she's straight, it is apparently repellent that she hasn't spawned. Because you know what's wrong with these sterile (emotionally, at least!), career-oriented, success-craving women who make it to the judiciary and the Supreme Court? They just never took time out to have babies. You know what babies give you? Well-roundedness! And I guess therefore the ability to issue Supreme Court decisions! If you have [...]