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Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Culkin) feels slighted by his large, obnoxious family and throws a temper tantrum on the eve of a vacation trip to Europe. Exiled to his room by his mother (Catherine O'Hara), Kevin fatefully wishes that his family would disappear. The next morning, he awakens to
find himself all alone in the house. Scared at first, he soon proves adept at fending for himself. As his guilt-stricken mom begins an arduous journey back from Europe to rescue her son, Kevin elaborately defends the house against a pair of menacing but comically inept burglars (Daniel Stern and
Joe Pesci).
The first half of HOME ALONE features the sugar-coated sentimentality that can usually be found in a Hughes film, while the second half is full of unanticipated sadism (a close-up of Stern's bare foot slipping slowly down a six-inch nail is the film's most ghastly image). As directed by Chris
Columbus (HEARTBREAK HOTEL), the film's slapstick falls flat and only the pain remains. Yet the film's message seems even more disturbing than its violence. This could be the first comedy--it's certainly the first holiday film--which focuses on child abuse. As Kevin shoots pellets into the
intruders and takes a blowtorch to their heads, he's directing the hostility he feels toward his neglectful parents at these two guys. The only really likable thing about this film is Culkin (UNCLE BUCK, JACOB'S LADDER). He's an uncommonly natural child actor, but even he doesn't always survive
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Stung by two court rulings disqualifying him from the ballot, Detroit mayoral candidate Mike Duggan has thrown in the towel.
Duggan said he won't appeal to the Supreme Court and will not run as a write-in candidate.
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"Once you've had two court rulings, it so impaired the campaign, it would have been difficult to come back from," said Duggan.
Duggan filed his nominating signatures on April 2, less than a year after he moved into Detroit. Had he waited until the filing deadline in May, no residency issue would have emerged.
"I only blame myself," said Duggan, who stood next to his wife Lori. "I should not have given them any chance to twist it in a way to take it off the ballot. I should have held the petitions two weeks longer."
Duggan says he will remain in Detroit and will probably endorse another candidate.
Duggan and Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon had been at the top of the polls. Napoleon's spokesman Jamaine Dickens said the Duggan decision "will not affect anything we do."
Candidate Tom Barrow, who fought to remove Duggan from the ballot, did not return a call from Local 4.
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How did you find a manufacturer to make your tWibbles?
I let all my contacts know I was looking for a trustworthy manufacturer. Sure enough, a friend of mine had a connection. He introduced us, and I was set.
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Avoid companies that advertise online ââ¬â- they're usually the worst. Instead, visit a local mom (and pop) company and ask the owners which manufacturer they use. And ask if they can set you up with a good contact. Even if they can't help you find a manufacturer, they may hook you up with someone else who can help.
In the Good Housekeeping article, you say it's tough for a small business like yours to compete with major brands. How do you do it?
I spend as much as I can on advertising. During the 2005 holiday season, I spent about $160,000 on ads, including on Nickelodeon and on a syndicated national radio program. You have to do whatever you can to get exposure. It's not enough just to be in Target stores; you have to let people know that you're there.
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Plot-twisting puzzlers are a bubble market in the movies these days, with an arms race of "Inception"-like reality reversals that flip like a coin until dizzy audiences lose all interest in how it lands.
To promote their latest project, "Oblivion," Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko and Director Joseph Kosinski visited Taipei on April 6, folding dumplings in the day and destroying ice statues in the evening.
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Here's the "super topless" Kate Upton video that a bunch of you keep clamoring about. Except don't get your hopes up because TMZ owns the right to it, so all you're going to see is a censored version because Harvey Levin's the real Osama bin Laden. Something I've always suspected for years, but never had proof until that Rickroll. To me my SEAL Team Six!
Here's The Kate Upton Topless Video You Won't Shut Up About
When did the fish writer get so bitchy?
The uncensored version needs to be released, the world deserves to see it.
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If you're just going to show the censored version and there's no uncensored version anywhere, it would've been better not to post the video at all.
Buy the video from TMZ.
Release the uncensored version! It's both the video we want and the video we need
Ive seen tits. I can close my eyes and have her face on some porn skank in a nano second. You cant stop me.
lots' of tension in the comments..haha)
What I'm dying to see is pics of Michael Lohan's barefoot. Toes ad soles. Anyone?
Please don't defile a frustrated post about awesome titties with your filthy foot fetish. I don't mind that you are gay, but women's feet are bad, while men's feet are a fucking horror show. Nobody is going on your gay foot fetish sites talking about tight, moist, smooth, young vaginas and full, pendulous, yet well shaped funbags are they? Show some respect.
Womens feet are epic! but yeah, that was a random post that doesn't belong here
Why waste our time with tits that are censored.
TMZ has turned into such a shit site. I don't go on it anymore. It's just a bunch of paid advertising, dressed up as supposed stories.
It's everything Fish aspires for! lol
Go buy it yourselves if you want to see naked Uptits so badly.
Harvey is only into naked dudes.
I thought maybe if I covered my dong in those adhesive foil stars my teachers used to put on spelling tests it would even things out and I'd be able to fap to satisfaction to this video. Unfortunately, those things have sharp little corners. Five of them on each. It reminded me of the first time I heard about "jacking off," and I tried to rub one out with a handful of jacks.
OMG! They are boobs.. on a chunky chick. What is the big deal?!
damn you rick astley :/
Her legs and ass are weak, and she has the face of a 14 year old. Not my cup of tea, but each to their own.
Dude…..FUCK TMZ for not releasing the unedited version!!!!!
What is Harvey, a pole smoker or something??? oh wait
I clicked the link to see the uncensored video but it wasn't there. Even though he claimed otherwise, he let me down in a big way.
yep. Now my kids can't go to college.
In 1800 Models (artists' models anyway), actresses, dancers and singers were once considered whores with a hobby. Nothing has changed. Hollywood is for whores.
Nice gut.
I need somebody to explain why this girl is such a big deal…Is it just me or does she have the torso of a flabby ping pong paddle? Can we just tear our eyes off the breasts for a hot second and agree on that, people? Please, for the love of all that is holy…
Cassie, your priorities are obviously all out of whack…which is understandable…as you may well be jealous….but in addition to that, there is just something very special about Kate Upton that transcends all typical criteria used to judge someone's overall attractiveness quotient…..oh yea, and she does have amazing tits!…


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Abbott has filed court papers to intervene in a lawsuit that cheerleaders at Kountze High School filed against the school district complaining that a new policy violated their freedom of speech. In September, district officials told the cheerleaders to stop using Bible verses at football games after the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained.
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Are Conservatives Winning the War on Women? How the Religious Lobbying Industry Truly Threatens Our Rights
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There's been a troubling trend among some liberals to do a premature victory dance over the contraception insurance benefit debate. Look at the polling data, the reasoning goes, and you'll find even Catholics support both Obama's policy and his reelection. Who doesn't use birth control, except for few outlier zealots? This is a political winner for Obama and the Democrats, the victory dancers contend. Game, set, match.
It's far too shortsighted, and worse, dangerously complacent, to measure victory election cycle by election cycle. (Even gaming the outcome of this year's election is a risky proposition at best.) The opponents of birth control insurance coverage don't use an election as a metric. Sure, they'd love to win, but even a loss inspires them to redouble their efforts, not to pack up and go home after learning they are on the minority side of public opinion.
They are evangelists. If public opinion isn't on their side, they'll strive to change public opinion. They are dogged, well-financed and unrelenting. Their claims about the proper role of religion in governing and policymaking — which Democrats fail to contest forcefully enough — are eroding the separation of church and state, and taking down gains made in access to reproductive healthcare along with it.
Democrats have attempted to defuse the Republican framing of the issue as one of "religious freedom" by arguing that the real issue is women's health. In making that argument, they regrettably glide over a crucial step in the logic. Yes, it's undeniable that what is at stake here is reproductive healthcare. But in claiming that their religious beliefs entitle them to an exemption from a regulation requiring insurance coverage for birth control, clerics and their Republican allies are attempting to relitigate and overrule established Supreme Court jurisprudence in the court of public opinion — without pushback from Democrats.
As Scott Lemieux writes at Lawyers, Guns and Money, "a constitutional challenge to the contraception provision wouldn't even rise to the level of being frivolous" under existing constitutional jurisprudence. Contrary to conservative claims, the Supreme Court has not interpreted the Free Exercise Clause as requiring such expansive religious exemptions. But in our current political climate, which causes Democrats to crouch in fear of being labeled anti-religion, such exemptions are nonetheless tucked away in legislation at the behest of the burgeoning religious lobbying industry, becoming law even if not required to protect free exercise rights.
Case in point: an exemption in the Affordable Care Act for members of healthcare sharing ministries, who reject insurance and pay for their fellow "professing Christians'" medical costs. The lobbyists approached a Democrat, former Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello, who did their bidding for them.
Indeed, the Affordable Care Act in its final form was cobbled from capitulations to religious demands. Conservatives — including Democrats like former congressman Bart Stupak — threatened to prevent passage over their false claim that the bill would require federal funding of abortions. Even a superfluous reiteration of the Hyde Amendment's abortion funding ban, offered by Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., failed to satisfy Obama allies like Jim Wallis. He pressed, in the name of " the faith community," for even greater restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion, even though no taxpayer funds were going to be used for it in the first place.
Existing standards for covering birth control at the state level, which have been upheld in court and laid the groundwork for the Obama policy, are now "in danger because the right, which has now been unmasked as opposing contraception as well as abortion … stayed in the ring and flamed up an issue," says Gloria Feldt, a former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and author of "No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power."
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Director Michael Bay just announced the new Fox on his website, saying "I would like for all you S4TE fans to welcome Rosie Huntington-Whiteley to the world of Transformers. As some of you might know, she's the new female lead in Transformers 3."
Bay, who directed two VS ads Rosie appeared in, has already started filming the third flick.
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Butt Feathers – Mason County News – Mason, TexasPosted on Thursday, August 14th, 2014 at 11:39 pm
Once, after a column іn which I pointed out thаt mascara is made frοm bat guano, I got several letters frοm women who wеrе livid thаt I would say such a thing. Of course, I apologized up, down, and sideways, and promised never to mаkе thаt mistake again. and I haven't. Well, not often, anyway.but thе truth is thаt I didn't mаkе thаt up. Bat guano really is one οf thе main ingredients іn mascara, and thаt won't change whether I write about іt or not. so, if you happen to bе a woman οf thе female gender, and уου're offended bу this column, I hope уου'll bе somewhat comforted bу thе fact thаt I аm not making any οf this one up, еіthеr. this story was sent to mе, or аt least posted on Facebook, bу thе editor οf Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine, who happens to bе, her very self, a female type person. and a darn gοοd guitar picker and singer, to boot.According to this story, thаt evidently ѕtаrtеd wіth thе Seattle Times and is sweeping thе country, there seems to bе a national shortage οf hackles.Now, hackles, іn case you don't waste large sectors οf your time tying flies, аrе feathers used іn flу-tying. I have gleaned, frοm mу extensive research on thе subject, thаt these particular feathers come frοm a certain раrt οf a chicken, known technically аѕ thе 'butt.' actually, I figured thаt out frοm reading thе article Louie Bond posted, but thаt's whаt passes fοr extensive research іn mу office.Fοr years flyfishers have bееn using hackles fοr thеіr flies. Fishing flies οnlу need maybe a couple οf small pieces οf feather each, so even wіth lots οf people tying thеіr own flies wе've bееn able to gеt bу fοr years without taxing thе nation's chickens tοο heavily. Sure, there have probably bееn some birds walking around wіth bare backsides аt times, but then, sacrifices mυѕt bе made. and if those sacrifices have to bе made bу chickens, I'm OK wіth thаt.but now things have changed. Women, en masse, have ѕtаrtеd using hackles аѕ hair accessories. Aѕ I understand іt, this involves something called 'hair extensions,' which would probably bе a gοοd name fοr a rock band. but then, so would butt feathers.Hair extentions, though, аrе a lіttlе out οf mу area οf expertise. I always thought there wеrе basically јυѕt two choices if you wanted longer hair – you сουld еіthеr lеt іt grow out, or wear a wig. so I asked mу wife about hair extensions, and learned thаt іt involves weaving οthеr peoples' hair іntο your own, to mаkе your hair longer. and, apparently, some women lіkе to weave feathers іn there, tοο, fοr decoration. why not?if you buy a hackle аt a fly shop іt wіll run you maybe five bucks. Thе same hackle аt a hairdresser joint mіght set you back a C note. so wе're talking a lot οf dіffеrеnсе іn price, fοr thе exact same feather.plus, іt turns out, you саn't јυѕt pull thе hackles and lеt thе bird keep pecking. Thе unique roosters thаt grow these feathers аrе specially raised, and have to bе whacked to harvest thе hackles. but thе main problem is thаt іt takes a year fοr thеm to gеt bіg enough to grow proper butt feathers.so thе U.S. supply οf hackles is being seriously depleted bу women who want to pay bіg bucks to рυt rooster butt feathers іn thеіr hair. It's getting so fly shops саn't keep thе feathers, and fly fishers аrе having a hard time finding thе hackles thеу need. no one is necessarily hарру about this situation, and аѕ far аѕ I know, thе roosters haven't even bееn consulted уеt.something has to bе done, and quick. Women аrе going іntο fly shops and buying out an entire season's worth οf hackles аt once, sometimes paying far more thаn thе going price. In some places women аrе being banned frοm these shops, or if not banned, thе owners won't sell to thеm, which is further escalating thе problem.one rooster farm іn Colorado, which raises thе special roosters, tοld thе Seattle Times thеу аrе kіllіng over 1,500 roosters a week now, and thеу still саn't keep up wіth thе demand frοm hair salons. Thаt's јυѕt wrong.and іt may not stop аt feathers. any woman who would рυt a chicken's butt feather іn her hair may decide to throw іn a lead weight or two, and maybe a handful οf plastic worms. before you know іt there may bе a shortage οf topwaters or shiners or jigs. Thе entire pro bass fishing circuit сουld bе shut down to keep thе country's women іn disgusting hairstyles. we сουld end up shipping іn boatloads οf angling supplies frοm China or thе OPEC nations. and you thіnk oil is a problem. Thе black market on colored feathers сουld easily outstrip thе drug trade іn terms οf law enforcement man-hours involved.if we don't deal wіth this problem іt's liable to dο υѕ іn, and Congress does nothing. maybe whеn women ѕtаrt raising thеіr own bats to keep themselves іn mascara, ουr leaders wіll decide to intervene. In thе meantime, keep your chickens іn thе coop, and your tacklebox locked up іn your gun safe . . .
Kendal Hemphill is an outdoor humor columnist who οnlу uses wing feathers fοr hіѕ flies. Write to hіm аt PO Box 1600, Mason, Tx 76856 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Internet access is playing hard to get today. Work has been intense but gratifying, but the heat is just melting me, and all the time I feel it turning me into cream cheese... oh and sorry 'bout the spelling!
My experience building this Ecoclub, the kids called it "drops of life" in spanish, has been fascinating. Sunday morning, we met the children at 8am bu the river and set off to find a nice trail for them to take their classmates on a nature walk. They're hosting a culture festival next month and want to incorporate an environmental awareness campaign. i didn't really know what to expect, but was really happy they invited us to come along!
The kids just walk for the fun of it. They get lost, they carry their machetes with them just in case the forest has gotten too thick for us to walk through easily, or just so they can find a new route to a new place for them to jump into the river. Even though I kept shouting at them to be careful and not chop each other's heads off, their movements with these not so little "swords" are so natural, an extension to their strong arms. Still, growing older and more boring by the second, I'm completely paranoid, like any good ol' grown-up would.
We walk for about 2 hours through huge fields full of beautiful white cebu cattle. There are so many birds and trees i've never seen before. The kids barely notice them, unaware of all the treasures they have and us city people have lost. They keep warning me about anacondas hiding in the swamps, expecting to scare me or see if i turn back. Only I would love to see one in the wild, and they don't really understand why. To them, the poisonous rays at the bottom of the river, or the caimans resting in the shade, are just annoying animals they have to mind when they go for a swim. To me, they are awesome.
But we don´t see any of these this time, and my inexperienced guides seem a bit relieved. instead we are greeted bu howling monkeys that sound like a storm is coming. once again, the crowd around me isn't surprised. Its funny how wildlife in Colombia, even though exotic and almost unknown to everyone, is so unattractive. But if told these kids i had actually seen lions and zebras and elephants, they would love to hear about it. It makes me sad, and I try to talk to them about it, but it's close to noon and the heat is just impossible, so a dive into the river seems so much more important than what i'm trying to say to them.
The day ends with an invitation to dinner to Karen Yiseth's home. Her mother, just 5 years older than me, is cooking mazamorra especially for us. I feel completely flattered because I understand what this invitation means to her, the chance to pay back what she feels she owes us, because of everything Karen has told her about us. it's a mixture of amiration and gratitude, they feel we have paid more attention to them than anyone else and that's all they ever really wanted; to feel important. I think this is what i love most about this job, how much I can trascend into these poeple's lives by just listening and sharing a meal with them.


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William Hawrelak (October 3, 1915 – November 7, 1975) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, the longest-serving mayor in Edmonton's history, and a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons. Hawrelak was born in Shandro, Alberta to Ukrainian immigrants William and Anastasia Hawrelak (the family's ancestral name was Гавриляк (Havryliak)). He married Pearl Shandro (daughter of Alberta MLA Andrew Shandro, after whom Hawrelak's hometown was named) the pair would have three daughters. In 1945, Hawrelak moved to Edmonton and purchased the Prairie Rose Manufacturing Co., which made soft drinks. He served as president of the Alberta Farmer's Union and of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues before entering politics. Hawrelak's first attempt at political office took place in the 1948 municipal election, in which he ran for Edmonton City Council and was defeated, finishing seventh of twelve candidates for alderman. He was more successful in the next election, winning the last available aldermanic position by finishing sixth of nine candidates after being backed by the Citizens' Committee, a municipal political party dominated by Anglo-Saxon businessmen. In 1951, he took  ( Wikipedia article )
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In the delightful Liz-Lemon-gets-married episode of 30 Rock, a secondary storyline centered upon Jack Donaghy's realization that he's half the man he used to be. He confesses to Jenna that he is no longer a Master of the Universe; he, a man who could count among his many accomplishments, "coin[ing] the phrase, 'You Wish, Pal'" in the 1980s. Later, Donaghy stares forlornly at a gold plaque on his wall commemorating his linguistic feat.
It was a classic 30 Rock throwaway, but good enough to roll around in my head for days after. "You Wish, Pal" is such a perfectly banal bit o'snark that it sounds universal, although it never achieved anything near critical rhetorical mass. As far as "meaningless phraseology that becomes ubiquitous and pointlessly enters the national dialogue," does that phrase have anything on "You Go Girl," "Don't Go There," or—most vexingly and of the moment—"Bracketology?" You wish.
Marquette's first Big East road game of this season came at Pitt. It was a big game for Marquette fans (I'm one) and Pitt fans and a certain type of masochistic gambler and Big East completist, but otherwise it was not. Otherwise it was just another middling early-season contest on a college basketball calendar filled with them. The announcing team of Beth Mowins and Tim Welsh were ideal for a January tilt on ESPNU—blandly competent, but mercifully free of schtick, gimmickry and canned anecdotes. They were fine, until college basketball's resident defective oracle showed up.
"Guess who's in the house?" Mowins crowed at one break in the action. "Our Bracketologist, Joe Lunardi. He's everywhere!"
And the St. Joseph's administrator and ESPN's resident NCAA Tournament seer really is everywhere, especially at this time of year. In this case, it was more precise to say that Joe Lunardi was in the Petersen Events Center, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at noon, on Saturday January 12, 2013, for a basketball game being aired on a secondary network owned by the large sports media corporation that pays him to be the resident Bracketologist. He was maybe there for his own pleasure. It was maybe a coincidence. But the minute ESPNU's broadcasters mentioned his name, it was clear. It was clear that Lunardi was going to fart all over the broadcast, stankin' and speculatin' on the airwaves at the expense of the actual game being played on the court.
And it came to pass, and we got—as the game went on—such (admittedly paraphrased) Lunardi-an analyses such as:
"It's never too early to talk about number-one seeds." (Yes, it is.)
And, "Obviously, you've got the top two, both unbeaten, Duke and Michigan..." (Both would lose within 26 hours)
This was annoying, but mostly for how familiar it is. When last Lundardi's ebullient, grinning shadow darkened a Marquette game, late last season, it was the same intra-office knob-polishing ensued.
"Year-in, year-out, you want to know who is going to the Big Dance, you go to ESPN.com and see who Joe Lunardi's picked." (And then a beat for frantic mirth, or some basketball) "He has a Ph.D. in Bracketology!" (And another) "How does he do it!" (And some fist-bumps, presumably.)
We could all, now, take a deep breath, and for one moment, pause to recognize that Bracketology isn't actually a thing. It's just a parlor game, fun for spitballing at the sports bar, but not a field of actual study. There are not degrees awarded; it's not like someone can take a class in the study of Bracketology, right? Oh.
This, too, is Joe Lunardi's fault.
It was St. Thomas Aquinas who said, "Wonder is the Desire of Knowledge...But when in doubt default to KenPom.
The thirst for a deeper understanding of the human condition, as represented in a $5 office pool, must be why the fine Jesuit community at St. Joseph's University offers an online certification in the "Fundamentals of Bracketology," which concerns the "art and science" (the art!) of forecasting which teams will be selected for a given year's NCAA men's basketball championship. The professor, naturally, is Joe Lunardi, who is also the school's vice president for marketing communications. He oversees institutional marketing and branding, program advertising, web content, and other integrated communications initiatives. He correctly forecast all 65 teams for the 2008 NCAA Tournament and has averaged no more than one missed team for the past eight seasons. You can call him "Joey Brackets." And for the fully reasonable price of $99, he will give students a firm understanding of the principles of "Bracketology" as applied to Division I college basketball and the NCAA® men's basketball championship and includes a history of the NCAA Tournament ("March Madness®").
There will be: course study of the team selection and seeding process, and the analysis undertaken by individual schools/conferences to position themselves for NCAA championship participation. The course will also explore the most common misconceptions "behind the bracket" as portrayed by the print/electronic media. Common misconceptions like say calling Rutgers and Villanova "bubble teams," after two weeks of Big East conference play? Something along those lines?
The good news is that there won't be much in the way of math—the mathematical forecasting thing (and the giving away such information for free thing) is for your Ken Pomeroys and Ratings Percentage Index. This is not that. Here, there is the sort of erudition that can only be gathered at courtside of a random Marquette/Pitt game. Here there is a final exam in which students complete a mock bracket, and participate in a mock selection committee meeting, moderated by Joe, and construct their own NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament bracket. Sure, there will be a lot of studying. Maybe some all-nighters. But when it's over, hoops scholars will earn a Certificate of Completion from Saint Joseph's University and a copy of the final bracket signed by Joe himself. Seating is limited.
Okay, so ESPN's resident bracketologist makes my skin crawl. Why? Is it charging $100 for a master class in his signature mix of "art and science," which could probably be more accurately described as a combination of "watch college basketball" and "educated guesswork?" Actually, that doesn't bother me. If someone wants to pony up a C-note for eight-weeks of nonsense, that's their business. This is America, man. For a mere $49.99, your author—some call him "Paddy Buckets"—will personally call you, on your own phone, with his personal NCAA Tourney bracket based on his patented "catch parts of some games and then look some shit up on the internet" methodology. Let the market decide.
Does it bug me that Lunardi makes a big fuss about his success rate picking the teams that get into the NCAA tournament, even though it's not that hard? There are 31 automatic bids, easily another 30 that can be plucked from the various rankings, another 30 that enjoy overwhelming odds of getting in, and maybe three or four remaining wild cards. In essence, Joey Buckets is spotted 64 teams with four slots to fill. In 2012, he missed one, in 2011 he missed three, but in 2008, as we've been told, he nailed the entire field. It's up to you what the statute of forcastication is and whether access to it is worth your hard-earned dollars.
As for the simulacrum of Lunardi's seeding expertise...well, there's that. But once St. Patrick's Day—doubling as Selection Sunday this year, in what may be a hazardous development for America's livers—rolls around, nobody cares. Noooooo. Bodddddddy. Selection Sunday is fantastic because there is so much to talk about—Final Four predictions, toughest region, best first-round match-ups, upset specials, pool-filling strategies, biggest snubs, MOP potential, foxiest cheerleaders and illest mascots, and so on.
Not on this long list: the accuracy with which Joe Lunardi, or any other Bracketologist, forecasted tournament seeding. Actual seedings will matter—fans will complain, sometimes they will be right—but theoretical seedings not at all. It would be like if kids on Christmas morning sat around ignoring their toys and discussing which presents had been wrapped most efficiently.
"No, we do not offer wagers on where teams will be seeded in the NCAA Tourney," Scott Ghertner of MGM Resorts International told me. "[And I] don't imagine other non-MGM Resorts Sportsbooks do either." In terms of potential return-on-investment, students holding a Joey Brackets diploma might as well have a classics degree. Once the tournament starts, of course, Lunardi himself is on his way back to obscurity, and his high-volume inanities, however accurate they were or weren't, are something to take out with the recycling the next day.
There's nothing wrong with Lunardi's gimmickry, given the right context and timing. Two weeks into conference play, it's easy to ignore Bracketology in favor of just watching the season unfold. Late in the season, with various possibilities now mostly unfolded, I'll check on Lunardi—along with all the other prognosticators, like this one here, or here, or here, or over here—to see where they have Marquette (and everyone else) pegged. This wasting of time on hypotheticals is on me; dropping thick slices of phony-bologna Lunardi-an speculation into actual game broadcasts is on ESPN though. And it's silly.
Of course, of course most sports fans would love to quit ESPN, but it's damn near impossible when it comes to college basketball. ESPN is where the games are. When Monday Night Football invited mooks like Sylvester Stallone and Jim Belushi into the booth some years ago—when they gave Dennis Miller a job talking about football on live television—these were clumsy plays for non-football viewers. Fans bitched and the experiment went by the wayside. Lunardi and his signature pseudoscience, though, are considered to add some value to the game-watching process. He's as permanent as he is fatuous.
Lunardi, in the goofy pseudo-field he invented, is an expert—a Ph.D., as we're reminded every time he enlightens us with insights about VCU being a "virtual lock on my board" while the Rams attempt to go 2-0 in conference play. This is the kind of banter that fills the hours at ESPN, the kind that has zero to do with what the teams he was bigfooting were doing right in front of him. As terrible as much of ESPN's programming is, it's also easy to avoid—I skip Skip, I don't want a First Take, I avoid Greenie and Gunt in the Morning, I have no take on Tebow or The Decision. But, through Lunardi, all that unwanted and under-reasoned conjecture invades what's supposed to be a safe space from it. At least when Jim Belushi shows up in the booth, you know that he's a clown. Lunardi, goofy though he is, is given some casual respectability, treated as a folksy oracle (with a Ph.D.!). He's worse than Glenn Beck, he's David Brooks. Please do not get David Brooks in my basketball.
Saturday evening found Marquette on ESPN 2 doing battle with Villanova at the Pavilion, Villanova's smaller, louder on-campus arena. It was a mildly important game for Marquette to stay tied atop the Big East, but it was huge for Villanova because they were "one of the last four out" of the NCAA tournament as the game tipped. There was an on-screen graphic of this stone cold fact. The second time it appeared, Mike Patrick had the decency to add, "according to our resident Bracketologist Joe Lunardi." The game was being played in Philadelphia, which is Lunardi's hometown and… and, oh no. No, not again.
"This is the most important 15 minutes of Villanova's season," Lunardi told Patrick and color commentator Len Elmore, when they invited him to join them on air. "Until the next game."
"We didn't use to update these things every half hour," Lunardi says to general guffaws. But hey, since we do, the two spent an entire segment talking about Miami's beatdown by Wake Forest; Marquette/Villanova, which was the game all three were attending, was at that point a one-point game.
After a dubious charge call, Patrick interrupted the conversation to point out that there have been a number of them and they've all gone to the defense. Important, relevant, curious, and so a natural segue for Patrick to return to what didn't matter. "Speaking of bad losses"—nobody was—"Let's get back to Miami and Wake Forest."
And the topline prattling continued, broken up briefly by a hard Marquette foul that pushed momentum Villanova's way. Elmore asked Lunardi's theoretical take on the Duke/Miami game, which would air on ESPN. In a week's time.
Then Patrick, for reasons unknown, asked for Lunardi's thoughts on the Fighting Illini's chances. Did Lunardi say, "If they collect one more scalp..." Yep. Did he say, "Well, this is Bracket Busters weekend..." Yes he did, although no it's not, and that's a made up alliteration anyhow. Did he say that if he were "doing it"—officially seeding teams, which he's not—standbys like Kentucky and Kansas would get a second look because of the "human element." I think you know the answer.
Mercifully, a commercial break ended Lunardi's time. But not before Elmore chimed in with "P.H.D...Bracketology...My Doc-tah."
I am maybe too upset by all this. This is maybe Mountains Out of Joehills. Fair enough, but here's the kicker: Lunardi, resident Bracketologist, isn't any fucking good at his job.
To amend an earlier statement—there actually is a small group that cares about the accuracy of Lunardi's predictions. These are your non-televised bracketologists, for whom this sort of prognostication is a hobby. According to The Bracket Project, a website that "measures how closely each Bracketologist got to matching the work of the selection committee," but doesn't have anything "to do with who is the best at picking winners in the NCAA tournament," Lunardi is an average student at best, certainly not a postdoctorate by any means.
The Bracket Project has two rankings of its "final exam grades." The more thorough one is for prognosticators that have participated for at least three years. Joe Lunardi comes in 36th out of 65. That's barely above the mean, right behind Schmolik 64 and two slots ahead of Bluejay Banter Bracketology. It's unlikely that either of those predictors could get $100 for a course in their methodology and an autographed bracket, but neither deserves it any less than Lunardi.
This won't change anything, of course. Lunardi has been branded thicker than an Omega Psi Phi pledge, and the doomsday hype machine in Bristol doesn't have an off switch. He's just another network personality to deal with, and he's free to leverage that notoriety however he wishes. But does this mean we need to give credence to—or pay attention to, or not actively, grumblingly mute—Lunardi when he bum-rushes the mic and starts spitting oracular pronouncements? You Wish, Pal.
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Orson Scott Card- Douchebags of ComicsFebruary 20th, 2012 |
Orson Scott Card is what I'd consider to be a deeply mentally ill person. In addition to other things, for decades now, he's continually spouted off in a jaw-droppingly rabid fashion about just how much he doesn't like gay people. It takes a special kind of crazy to get that worked up over something that, theoretically, has no effect on your life whatsoever.
The first one was his big vomiting up of crazy in 1990 about how gay sex should stay illegal, among other things:
"Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books…to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens."
That's right, not only does he think that "homosexual behavior" should be illegal, he doesn't think that gay people should even be considered equal citizens. Which explains his views on gay marriage a bit. Personally, I'd venture the opinion that the ones who shouldn't be permitted to remain a part of society are the people so seething with bigotry and ignorance that they find it difficult to cohabitate the planet in proximity to anybody who isn't like them, even when those people are doing nothing that in any way affects them.
But that wasn't it, not nearly. That was Orson Scott Card around 20 years ago, and he's continued to drift from reality.
Of course, when you're a mentally ill person, reality seems pretty relative. In his big 2004 essay on the subject , because I guess Card felt that people were lying awake at night wondering just what the fucktard was thinking about gay people now, he makes labored, poor analogies using Alice in Wonderland to talk about how the gay agenda is pulling society into a rabbit hole where the reality of marriage, as he sees it, is being distorted. That's right, we're being pulling into some terrifying, strange alternate reality in which everybody has equal civil rights and consenting adults whose actions have no effect on your life can do as they choose. Sounds pretty harrowing, doesn't it?
Then there was the big one, Card's 2008 explosion of retardation in which he actually suggests the overthrow of the Government if Prop 8 was struck down. No, really:
"How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn."
I can't link to the original version of that essay because, as near as I can tell, it's been taken down, but the salient details have largely circled the web and you can find them any number of places. There are lengthy excerpts on this blog here and also a good editorial on it with more quotes here .
It speaks a great deal to his character that Orson Scott Card would feel strongly enough about something that his delusional mind would start talking about overthrowing the Government, but then allow the article to be removed when the fallout from his bigotry becomes too great. He's not just a bigot, he's a slimy, lying, cowardly bigot, who time and again has gone on these long screeds, and then immediately played the victim card and said he was being mischaracterized, and that the evil Liberals were out to get him.
The 1990 rant, for example, he has since characterized as actually being pro-gay, I guess because he wasn't actually proposing mass extermination. If you want to read his verbal gymnastics trying to explain how a rant in which he talks about how gay people shouldn't be considered citizens is actually pro-gay, it's above the essay itself at the link I provided above.
He goes further than just claiming his comments have been mischaracterized, which they haven't, and, as bigots often do when they're trying to victimize others, he attempts to cast himself as the victim: "Please remember that for the mildest of comments critical of the political agenda of homosexual activists, I have been called a 'homophobe' for years." Apparently in the World of Orson Scott Card, saying that gay people don't deserve to be considered equal members of society, calling them, "tragic genetic mix-ups," and saying that it all upsets you to the point that you think the Government should be overthrown if it supports it, in Card's World these are, "The mildest of comments."
If those are the mild comments, what does the nutjob *really* think?
He's at it again these days, after writing a new book, Hamlet's Father, which exists largely to repaint Hamlet's father from the Shakespeare play as a gay pedophile who, by molesting them, turned Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and apparently a lot of the other characters, gay. No, really.
Card has said before that he thinks that gay people are turned gay by being molested. How they are *turned* gay, and then also, "tragic genetic mix-ups," is the type of self-fulfilling mind-trick of which Card seems fond. He's now written an entire book devoted to rewriting Shakespeare chiefly for the purpose of turning one character into a gay pedophile so that Card can illustrate how gay pedophiles work in his World- In this case, they're pretty busy, because it seems that Hamlet's father molests pretty much everybody in the story- and then further to show how being molested has turned these characters gay. Other than that, he doesn't seem to have added much to the narrative, other than his basic lack of understanding of the characters in the original play. He used the story more or less just to illustrate his version of gay culture.
But wait- does that sound just slightly homophobic to you? Well, according to Orson Scott Card, that means you're obviously a biased Liberal with an ax to grind who's out to get him! In this case, instead of an essay Card wrote an entire novel to showcase his mental illness, but, just like the essays, he quickly backtracked on that and lied about it, too. You can read his refutation of the accusations that the book is homophobic here .
"There is no link whatsoever between homosexuality and pedophilia in this book. Hamlet's father, in the book, is a pedophile, period. I don't show him being even slightly attracted to adults of either sex," Card said. At some point, you have to wonder if he knows how ridiculous he really sounds, and if he's just trying to be funny. The father in Card's book molests boys, and because of that they grow up to be gay. And then Card says that there is no link between the pedophilia in his book and homosexuality. He's passed that Ann Coulter point where you know he probably can't even believe the shit that's coming out of his own mouth, unless he really is just a seriously mentally ill individual.
He doesn't even just hate gay people, either. In his marriage ramblings, he seems to have some serious problems with women. In his central idea of the ideal marriage that he thinks the Government is trying to subvert, he describes the role of women this way:
"Faithful sexual monogamy, persistence until death, male protection and providence for wife and children, female loyalty to children and husband, and parental discretion in child-rearing."
He slips it in there carefully, like he always does, but female subservience to their husbands is, along with his hatred of gay people, a key part of Card's World view.
He's not crazy about female authors, either. He decided for some mysterious reason to go on a lengthy jag about JK Rowling when she was trying to protect her intellectual property by trying to prevent the publication of an unlicensed guide to her books that would have overlapped with something she wanted to create herself. For some reason, he doesn't just debate the intellectual property aspect, he goes to great length to assault JK Rowling's integrity in every way and imply that her overall success is undeserved.
As far as his skills as a writer go, which isn't very, Card has discovered one effective trick. When he's denying things that he's said, and also when he's accusing people or the courts of doing things in these essays of his, he's figured out that he can just kind of make facts up, and if he tosses them out there in the middle of a long ramble, he figures they'll be accepted at face value and his arguments will be supported by them.
When he talks about abortion clinics, he says, "It is now illegal even to kneel and pray in front of a clinic that performs abortions." What? When, where? He's just made this up, but it's supplemental to his main argument about the overreach of the courts, so he thinks that people will just gloss over it and it will be assimilated as a fact to support his essay. About gay marriage: "When gay rights were being enforced by the courts back in the '70s and '80s, we were repeatedly told by all the proponents of gay rights that they would never attempt to legalize gay marriage." Neat trick, he's inventing more history there, and using it as an example of how the proponents of gay rights are liars, not him. Which again, is ancillary to his main argument, but he thinks that if he throws it in there, supporting the idea that gay rights activists are liars will support his main argument, which is that we're being lied to about marriage equality.
He does the same thing when he talks about JK Rowling: "And don't forget the lawsuit by Nancy K. Stouffer, the author of a book entitled The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, whose hero was named 'Larry Potter.' " He just throws that out there in the middle of what he's saying, knowing that, as he's presented it, it makes JK Rowling look like a thief. The case in question, though, was dismissed and JK Rowling found to be accused baselessly, which Card probably knows, but he knows that the majority of people reading what he's saying aren't going to fact-check every detail, and he's therefor accomplished his purpose, which was just to make Rowling look bad, and devalue her position.
The reason I wanted to do this portrait the way I did is because that's pretty much what I think evil looks like: a harmless-looking smiling chubby guy in a bad Hawaiian shirt. Orson Scott Card lies about what he is. Every time his homophobia, misogyny, or whatever else is wrong with him, become apparent, he always does this little dance of, "What, me? I'm just saying the way I see it, shouldn't I be allowed to express my opinion?" That's how the worst bigots present themselves, as though they're just voicing an opinion, what could be wrong with that? Orson Scott Card presents himself as a mainstream figure, publishing fun adventure novels, but underneath that there's something much worse.
I have him saying the word Tragic in reference to his quote that gay people are, "tragic genetic mix-ups," because that, combined with the smiling harmless guy he'd like to present himself as, is a good encapsulation of how I see him. He's grinning and writing fun sci-fi novels, very often directed at younger readers, but what's actually coming out of that mind is extremely, extremely tragic.


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The report goes on the explain that "Q" pulled the dildo and a jar of Vaseline out of her purse, pulled down the victim's pants and diaper, "and told her that this 'would make her feel good.' "Q" then attempted to force the dildo into [the victim's] vagina." The victim "stated that she was screaming for Q to stop," but was told by Watson that "all old people like it and it makes them feel good." According to the victim, when Watson saw that the victim's vagina was bleeding, she began to "cuss" at the old woman saying that she would "get it next time." Adding, "if you tell anyone, I will hurt you." The old woman told police that she was alone with Watson, and feared for her life. When she discovered that she was again to be left alone with Watson on November 1, she could no longer remain silent. A forensic vaginal exam revealed "obvious sign of trauma." Watson was arrested and held in lieu of a $25,000 bond.
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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco will take the field next Sunday with the Baltimore Ravens for Super Bowl XLVII. Getting almost as much hype as the big game itself is Super Bowl advertising, which will take center stage this week with several sneak peaks from major advertisers.Super Bowl XLVII is now only a week away, and the closer the game draws, the more information Super Bowl sponsors are sharing about their plans.
What follows is the most recent news about nine marketers that are buying commercial time during the game, which will be broadcast by CBS on Feb. 3.
Anheuser-Busch InBev: The Anheuser-Busch division of Anheuser-Busch InBev is to release a teaser clip today to promote a Super Bowl commercial for a new beer, Beck's Sapphire. After several days of teasing on Facebook and YouTube, the full commercial will get a preview on YouTube on Feb. 1 and 2 before it runs during the game.
The commercial, by the ad agency Mother, will feature an animated goldfish — black, the same color as the Beck's Sapphire bottle — singing a version of the hip-hop hit "No Diggity" by an Australian musician, Chet Faker.
Anheuser-Busch also plans a sneak peek in full of a second commercial, for Budweiser, beginning Wednesday. The company's four other planned commercials — two for Bud Light and two for another new beer, Budweiser Black Crown — will be the subjects of teaser clips but will not be shared in full before they run during the game.
E-Trade Group: The E-Trade "talking" baby will return for another Super Bowl, the company said Friday. The 30-second spot, in the third quarter, is being created by Grey New York, part of the Grey unit of the Grey Group, a WPP agency.
Go Daddy Group: The company posted online Friday one of the two commercials it plans to run during the game. The 30-second spot promotes registering .com domain names with godaddy.com and features a cameo by longtime Go Daddy endorser Danica Patrick.
Both Go Daddy commercials are being created by Deutsch, part of the Lowe & Partners unit of the Interpublic Group of Cos.
Hyundai Motor Group: The company's Kia brand will offer moviegoers an advance look at one of its two Super Bowl commercials. A 60-second spot for the Kia Sorento titled "Space Babies" will begin to be shown Friday in movie theaters that offer the FirstLook preshow program from NCM Media Networks.
Milk Processor Education Program: For its first Super Bowl commercial — a 30-second spot to run in the second quarter of the game — the national organization that encourages milk consumption signed Dwayne Johnson, the actor known as the Rock, for a humorous look at how far a father will go to get milk for his children's breakfast.
A report about the commercial is scheduled to appear on "CBS This Morning" on Thursday, during which the spot is to run in full. A 60-second version will then be posted on websites like Facebook, milkmustache.com and YouTube. Deutsch is creating the milk commercial as well as the commercials for GoDaddy.
The previews of the milk spot will help it get wider viewership, said Vivien Godfrey, chief executive of the organization, known as MilkPEP. "We want to reach as many people as we can."
The Super Bowl spot is the centerpiece of a $10 million campaign, Godfrey said, that will include promotions, social media, print ads, in-store marketing and a tie-in with a program called Fuel Up to Play 60, sponsored by the National Football League and the National Dairy Council.
Mondelez International: The company began sharing additional information Friday about a commercial for Oreo cookies that it plans to run during the first half of the game.
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Oak Park police pursued the suspect of a dollar store armed robbery Monday night until he crashed into another vehicle at Schaefer Highway and McNichols Road in Detroit, injuring an innocent woman.
Police say the suspect fled the store in a vehicle and drove south down Schaefer Highway into Detroit. Police followed and caught up to him just before McNichols Road where they forced his vehicle to spin out.
The suspect's vehicle spun into an elderly woman's vehicle. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital. She suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers had to use a Taser on the suspect before arresting him, police said.
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I have never
read a book by Jennifer Echols, and after reading Such a
Rush, I think she is a terrific author. Such a Rush was a
lot different than any other book I've read, especially
since it involved flying planes. Everything about the planes
was well-researched, and reading about Leah up in the air
made me want to learn how to fly a plane, too. All the
characters were interesting, and throughout the whole book I
wanted to know their motivations. The mystery with Grayson
and why he's blackmailing Leah was particularly engaging.
Speaking of the protagonist, Leah grew up poor with an
absent mother, but she was able to overcome her upbringing
by the end of the book. Overall, I thought that Such a Rush
was a fun read about a very interesting topic.
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