Category — Current Events

We like to consider ourselves anarchists, but sometimes the U.S. Government deserves a pat on the back:

The Obamas Battle Childhood Obesity
USA Today

President Obama reinforced first lady Michelle Obama’s battle against childhood obesity today, signing an executive order outlining federal help for the problem that affects a third of the nation’s children. Click here to read the rest of the article.

My close proximity to Hollywood means I’m friends with people who regularly mingle with celebrities. A close friend of mine went to the Grammies on Sunday and told me something that made me more depressed than on the day I was compared to Kim Kardashian. She said that Beyonce Knowles is 5′1″ and skinny.

Does anybody understand why I’m so upset? Because Beyonce looks like a large-boned person with big thighs. I’ve always prided myself on being skinnier than her. If Beyonce actually is skinny, that makes me dangerously obese.

We came across the article pasted below. All we have to say is…Please don’t sue us, Tori.

Skanks for nothing: Google must ID ‘anonymous’ blogger

Remember when mom said not to worry when people call you names, it’s the sticks and stones you need to watch out for? Well, it turns out mom was wrong. Again. In this case though, it’s the name-callers who are in danger of getting stoned (no, not in that way).

Yesterday a U.S. Federal judge ruled that Google must turn over the name of an anonymous blogger who took a severe disliking to aging supermodel Liskula Cohen. The ripples emanating from the ruling could potentially wash over every member of the blogosphere (including those who delight in anonymously depositing nasty comments on blogs — you know who you are).

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