On The Week of Outrage Continues: That Racist Actress Edition
So does that make Sizism the new Homophobia and Racism the new coke?
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On Keep Your Hands Off My 67-Cent Cigarettes
there is nothing that makes me sadder than when the Awl refreshes away my brillaint masterpiece of a comment just as I am about to post it. sigh.
What I find interesting is the bizzare combination of cranking up the tax revenue flow to city and state via cigarettes and then simultaneously making it a colassal pain in the keister to actually smoke. (Yes I'm sure that a percentage of those taxes collected go into Medicaid funds, but I believe it's probably not all that high of a total percentage of "sin" taxes collected)Taxing those "bad for you" habits like smoking and booze is just the simplest way to level your budget flow problems without people trying to get you booted from office. Imagine the budget crisis and sudden across the board tax increases that would have to go through if all of the smokers decided that it just wasn't worth it anymore and quit altogether.
I'm not a smoker (though I admit that I did smoke probably a pack of Djarums every 2 years when feeling nostalgic for film school until people started to care about "the children" and banned them. I still find it curious that the law only cared about the children who smoked a type of flavoured cig not sold by any big tobacco players, but not so much about the children who smoked the methols, but that's another soapbox.)
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On Giant Solar Flare Will Mess Up Your Access To Internet, Food
yes, but, if the internet is wiped out, how will I blog about how earth is being paralysed?
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On Giant Solar Flare Will Mess Up Your Access To Internet, Food
My favourite bit is at the end where they also speculate that rubies and saphires will rain from the sky on other planets. Obviously when the sun paralyses Earth, the adventurous rich will all just pile into Richard Branson's space ship and get richer.
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On Robyn Covering Bjork in Front of Bjork
I think the problem here is that she's basically trying to sound like Bjork, particularly with the vocals, and what's the point of that? Bjork already did it better. I'd like to see people try to do an almost unrecognizable and interesting cover of Bjork than someting faithful.
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On Regularly Foul Lady Comedian Offends Sensibilities at Offensive Event
essentially she said that if they'd played Hasselhoff's CDs in Auschwitz the Jews would have run for the ovens. Then she said George Hamilton was like a black man because he was a bad father and hadn't worked in 20 years. And Pamela Anderson had had more plastic surgery than Rger Ebert. I don't really get why half of the roasters spend more time ragging on people who aren't the roastee at all. I swear she had about 3 jokes about Hasselhoff and 8 minutes on Hamilton and Hulk Hogan
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On Regularly Foul Lady Comedian Offends Sensibilities at Offensive Event
Oddly I didn't really get the "I can't believe you just made that joke" feeling from any of her controversial ones, probably because they were all tired, even the halocaust one felt like I've heard it a hundred times before. I was more "wow, did you really just say that?" at Gilbert Gottfried's halocaust denier joke. That may have been the most potentially offensive to a swath of people of the night.
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On Top Chef Pea Scandal
# 3 is stupid, if that were the case, then wouldn't Alex's puree be sitting there waiting for Ed?
I think there are really only 2 options. 1.) Alex stole the puree. and 2.)Ed forgot his back at the studio and instead of using footage of Alex in the process of creating his, or of showing footage of the lonely container of Ed's puree back in the TC kitchen, Bravo chose to make a controversy so that people would have something to talk about other than how much the show sucks this season and all the chefs are boring as hell. (this is also why they are trying to turn Ed and Tiffany's friendship into a repeat of Hosea and that less-than-talented-whiny-chef who only made it as far as she did because they made out on camera.)
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On Zero Percent of People Would Pay For Twitter
I click on ads that are relevant, unfortunately for internet advertisers 90% of ads that seem to appear on sites are stupid crap like "10 secrets to flat belly" (secret number one appears to be badly photoshopping yourself thin in photos and secret number 2 is sucking in your stomach for the after shot) or my favourite from facebook yesterday "so you like Ghostbusters, we're sure you'll love this marksman competition show on the History channel that has absolutely nothing to do with ghosts, ghostbusting, or a thin Harold Ramis."
also clicking rarely means buying, it may mean I bookmark though.
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On Salon Radically Redefines "Sexy" for "Sexiest Men" List
I always have that disconnect. I'm asexual so I have no real desire to fuck anyone ever really, but there are some people who I look at and go 'holy shit that person is hot' and I can fantasize about how we would have not sex, usually through the plot of a ridiculous action thriller I make up in my head.