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You Know the Economy's Really Hurting When

spingirl | 18 June, 2008 17:55

brothels in Nevada are feeling the pinch. Yep, according to this Newsweek article, business is going bust for the brothels. George Flint, Director of the the Nevada Brothel Owner's Association (no, I'm not making that group up), business is down by as much as 45 percent.

I guess it's hard to keep things up when the economy is going down? Or perhaps more guys are deciding to stay home and make it a Blockbuster night instead...

Speaking of Wrecks...

spingirl | 14 May, 2008 23:11

Oops...she did it again. Britney Spears has gotten into yet another car accident. *sigh* As reported by IMDB, then one-time Mrs. Federline rear-ended an SUV Tuesday.

I'm pleading with the authorities in California - do something about the moving violation that is Britney with a valid driver's license. Between earthquakes, mudslides, and Lindsay Lohan, don't Californians already have enough natural disasters to deal with?

All I Want for Christmas...

spingirl | 14 November, 2006 15:47

I found this way too bizarre. According to an MSNBC article, Toys for Tots turned down a donation of 4,000 "Bible-quoting Jesus dolls."

No, I'm not kidding. Someone actually manufactures Bible-quoting Jesus dolls.

Not exactly what I think of when I think of "must-have item for Christmas." But maybe that's just me.

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Redefining "Dittohead"

spingirl | 27 June, 2006 13:58

Poor Rush Limbaugh. Rush, the man from the right, who hates the left, is now feeling down, all because he couldn't get it up.

That's right. As CNN reports, the conservative commentator, Rush Limbaugh, was stopped by customs agents upon returning to the US from the Dominican Republic and found to be carrying Viagra without a valid prescription.

Guess that puts a new spin on the term "Dittohead."

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Not a nitwit, not yet a complete imbecile

spingirl | 15 June, 2006 16:39

Oh, Bit-Bit. You're at again. Sometimes, I can't help but shake my head and sigh when Britney Spears ends up in the media for the umpteenth time.

This time, Mrs. Federline asked to sit down with Matt Lauer for an interview. Keep that tidbit in mind - she asked for the interview. And boy did she provide some fantastic soundbits!

Per the CNN preview, Ms. Spears descibes herself as an "emotional wreck." I can at least agree with the wreck part of that statement. There is a certain delicious sense of schadenfreude in watching the Britney-Spears-Train fly wildly off the track and crash into a million fiery pieces. I mean, there was the original quickie wedding, then the affair with K-Fed, then the sinfully tacky wedding to K-Fed, then the fact that she decided to bear one of K-Fed's many children, and now, that she is pregnant yet again by Kevin Federline. What a wreck indeed.

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Oops...He did it again

spingirl | 10 May, 2006 13:07

*sigh* So, by now, everyone should have heard the momentous news. Britney Spears and her ne-er-do-well leech, erm, husband, Kevin Federline, are having another baby. First thought I had upon hearing this: California Child Protective Services better hire some new people and pronto.

What is it about people like Britney and K-Fed that cause them to spawn like there is no tomorrow? Do you realize that K-Fed's sperm has done more work in the past couple of years than K-Fed himself has done over his entire life? That is both sad and disgusting.

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Just Say No!

spingirl | 09 May, 2006 13:10

So, my current job involves completing psychological evaluations on juvenile delinquents at the state juvenile correctional facitlity (or as I affectionately refer to it, kiddie prison). In the course of completing over 250 evaluations in the last 1.5 years, I have seen plenty of kids with drug problems. And when I say drug problems, I don't mean someone who sparks a joint up at a party every now and then. I mean someone who spends most of the day or week higher than a kite. As a result of my contact with these kids, I have come to a couple of conclusions about drugs.

First off: Current drug use prevention programs do not work. It is as simple as that. You can tell a 9-year-old to "just say no" all you want, but it seems like there are only a couple of things that will actually keep kids off of drugs: a strong family, a good peer group, and real goals for the future. Based upon my interactions with substance addicted kids, I have devised a drug prevention program of my own, one that I feel may actually work: Let kids spend a day with an honest-to-goodness druggie. Let the kids see just how many brain cells said druggie has killed. Let them see what drugs really do to brains as they watch their friendly druggie guide have trouble remembering simple facts from his or her own life or figuring out how to make change to buy a taco. Let them see what they could turn out to be. I know that working with these kids day-in and day-out has me scared shitless about the effects of drugs. It's quite sad to watch a 17-year-old kid be unable to form a simple design using four blocks because they have baked away most of the brain cells in their frontal lobe. My drug use prevention program would be a relatively cheap program, and it might knock more sense into impressionable kids than those stupid, unrealistic anti-drug commercials on tv.

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South Park Heat Too Hot for Chef

spingirl | 14 March, 2006 14:24

I can't say I didn't see it coming. After 9 irreverent, take no-prisoners seasons, Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef, finally thinks "South Park" has crossed the line and he cannot, in good faith, take part in the series anymore.

In a statement issued yesterday, (taken from E! Online) Mr. Hayes said: "Religious beliefs are sacred to people and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices." He asked to be released from his contract due to the show's "inappropriate ridicule of religious communities."

Now, now, I realize it might have taken Mr. Hayes some time to realize that South Park's brand of humor was not exactly of the uplifting and politically correct variety. I mean, it was at least several minutes into the original Christmas Card episode before the writers pitted Santa Claus against Jesus Christ in a bloody deathmatch. You can't blame Mr. Hayes for not seeing "inappropriate ridicule of religious communities" in that very first outing for the South Park boys. It could have taken Mr. Hayes 9 entire seasons to figure this out. 9 entire seasons that included the following episodes:

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The Tom Cruise Show

spingirl | 15 February, 2006 09:26

And speaking of vomit inducing...Just in time for Valentine's Day, that master of couch-jumping, the poster boy for the necessity of psychotropic medications, Tom Cruise, is busy issuing denials in light of reports that he and his faux-lady love, Katie Holmes, have broken up.

Really, could we even have had Valentine's Day without TomKat butting in? Both TomKat and V-Day are shining examples of what commercialism, marketing excess, fake sentiment, and too much sugar can do. So, I think not.

Life and Style Magazine reported yesterday: "Multiple insiders confirmed the story to Life & Style, with one longtime friend of Tom's saying: 'Their relationship is basically over.'"

To say a relationship is over, though, implies that there was a relationship to start with. Somehow, I'm not sure that Katie Holmes agreeing to be the beard for Tom after he interviewed several other actresses actually constitutes a relationship. But, then, that's just me.

"Another friend adds: 'They both agreed that the marriage wouldn't work and they wanted to end it before they learned to hate each other.'"

We already hate them, so I guess it was only a matter of time before they also learned to hate each other.

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Ewww! Just ewww!

spingirl | 13 December, 2005 10:34

Well, there appears to have been a recent upsurge in the number of older women who like their boytoys being on the other side of legal. The case of Lisa Clark, 37, from Georgia and her 15-year-old husband appears to be the latest.

The following quotes are taken from the news story at CNN:

"A 37-year-old woman who is seven months pregnant by her 15-year-old groom says she prefers older men, but the teenager aggressively wooed her."

Aggressively wooed her??? What did he do? Ride his bike to her house every night and recite her lines from "The O.C."? Justin Timberlake?

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