What’s probably nice about being Matt Damon? Well, besides being rich and famous and married to Luciana Barroso?
Well, for starters, you get to lend a voice to causes you believe in, and people sometimes listen. Alternatively, a hack ‘journalist’ from a libertarian website like Reason.tv (sorry, I’m not even linking to them and giving them traffic) shoves a mic in your face, and you get to teach them a few big words:
America’s second favorite sex tape star, Kim Kardashian, is suing Gap Inc, because its Old Navy brand aired commercials this spring that featured a model named Mellisa Molinaro. Molinaro is apparently somewhat known for ‘looking like Kim Kardashian’, among other exploits, such as appearing on MTV’s Making the Band 3, because that’s actually a thing.
Per the suit, Kardashian ‘”has invested substantial time, energy, finances and entrepreneurial effort in developing her considerable professional and commercial achievements and success, as well as in developing her popularity, fame, and prominence in the public eye”. I’ll leave the to commenters go ahead and have their fun with that statement.
Further, Ms. Kardashian is concerned that people might confuse her and Ms. Molinaro, and assume that Old Navy has Kim’s endorsement. Which, of course, they don’t, because a) they didn’t pay for it and b) Ohmygaw, have you seen Old Navy’s clothes? Kardashians don’t wear $5 polos, kids. She is so better than that.
Kim doesn’t want it to be illegal to look like her, she just wants to keep anyone who does from earning money publicly. Just kidding! Kim probably sees the potential for a few bucks, and hey, it beats ‘working’.
Let’s be fair, we’re all here because we have similar online reading habits. This is a diverse group though, we come from all over the world, with all kinds of tastes, and we read a lot of stuff all over this here Internet. So, today’s Question of the Day: What else do you check on a regular basis? And don’t say ‘Crasstalk’ in your answer, because you’re already here.
I rarely go a day without hitting Wonkette and Salon, aside from the time I spend around these parts. I know I go to a host of other blogs throughout the work week, but those are my other regulars. What about you guys? Where else do your eyes stray on the regular?
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If you’re like me, you may have seen a headline in your news feed Wednesday evening that read something like “Republicans Agree to Revenue Increases.”
Of course, because I’m an optimist, or, maybe, a dummy, I assumed that to mean that the GOP had finally come to their senses and realized that a large majority of Americans support modest tax increases as part of the package to cut the deficit. Again, though, if you’re like me, and thought this might be the case, you’re clearly a sucker.
I’m sure that I’m not the only one that had an email from the White House land in my inbox today, pimping the President’s Twitter Town Hall. Today at 2pm Eastern time, President Obama will answer questions generated by the Twitter-verse. Allegedly, the folks at Twitter have worked up a way to make sure that he gets questions that are being asked frequently and hit with the #AskObama hashtag. I’m sure they actually have, I just stink at technology. Continue reading
What’s one good way to turn a simple domestic violence charge into a story that will get you some real attention? Spray the responding officers with your breast milk. Continue reading
Seventh generation high-wire daredevil (and possible crazy-person) Nik Wallenda received approval today from the legislature of the State of New York to cross Nigara Falls. Continue reading
Once upon a time, video games were simple: A joystick, a button, and a singular, often repetitive, goal. For those of us born in the late 70s and early 80s, these 8-bit button mashers ate up hours many of us could have used developing actual, tangible skills.
Try selling that to a 7 year old with Pac-Fever. Continue reading
A newly released study by doctors at the University of Pennsylvania shows that kids on Medicaid wait more than twice as long to see specialists compared to children who are covered by private insurance. The truly disconcerting part of this story is that kids on private insurance were found to wait an average of 20 days for an appointment. Though, even that pales in comparison to a denial rate of 66% for public insurance holders at the clinics the researchers contacted.
The solution to this, obviously, is more cuts to Medicaid! Get those poors out of the system completely, and the kids on private insurance might only have to wait two weeks to see the respiratory therapist!
Depending on who you listen to, recently dismissed Ohio State coach Jim Tressel is either a snake who ran a dirty program that still couldn’t keep up with the SEC, or a decent man who went to great lengths to maintain the blissful ignorance needed to run a major college sports program. As with most debates involving two extremes, the truth likely lies somewhere in the middle, a place today’s media rarely shows in interest in exploring. Continue reading