Until he fled the country in January, accused of embezzling more than $300 million, Lou Pearlman was famous as the impresario behind the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync. Turns out his investors weren’t the only victims, colleagues reveal: Pearlman’s passion for boy bands was also a passion for boys.Vanity Fair: Mad About the Boys Here’s just a snippet that sticks out:
Some, especially the teenagers, shrugged and giggled when he showed them pornographic movies or jumped naked onto their beds in the morning to wrestle and play. Others, it appears, didn’t get off so easily. These were the young singers seen emerging from his bedroom late at night, buttoning their pants, sheepish looks on their faces.(3)
According to the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas, God hates Iowa. Wait, Iowa? God hates Iowa? If there is any state that God might be fond of I would think it could be Iowa. Apparently not….
Why does God hate Iowa? Three words: sod-o-mite!
That’s right. Sod-o-mite! Better [...]
Read more »»You would think the creators of the following video would have, oh, I don’t know, googled Hillary Clinton’s name to make sure they were spelling it right. NOTE: There are two ‘L’s in Hillary.
Watch for a cameo from Sliders star Jerry O’Connell.
[via Science Blogs]
Read more »»Rachael Ray is a lot of things: annoying, loud, untalented, gassy, trashy, wide, bilious, skanky, indolent, abominable, abhorrent, bigheaded, smutty, vile, crude, uncouth…But is she a terrorist?
Well, Fox News thinks she just might be one. In a recent television spot for Dunkin’ Donuts — Rachael Ray’s favorite brand of coffee [...]
MTV has the trailer for Choke, the film based off of Chuck Palahniuk’s dementedly dark novel of the same name. The casting is inspired; with Sam Rockwell playing Victor Mancini and Anjelica Huston playing his mother, Ida Mancini.
Actor/writer and now first-time director, Clark Gregg, adapted the novel for the screen. Gregg’s only other [...]
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Hostility to or prejudice against megorites.
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A person who is indubitably megorious.
Long time megorites know that I used to be obsessed with The Jack Bauer Power Hour, better known as 24. Well, after the miserable and laughably bad sixth season, I have moved on. The seventh season was set to debut back in January but due to the writer’s strike, FOX pushed it back [...]
Read more »»Fox News contributor Liz Trotta referred to Barack Obama as “Osama” then laughed it off and suggested that both Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden should be knocked off.
Wow. The full segment can be found here.
Read more »»Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee: the two asses in assassination.
Fresh off of Huckabee’s joke about Barack Obama ducking gunfire, Hillary Clinton basically alluded, albeit indirectly, to the fact that she’s staying in the presidential race just in case Barack Obama is assassinated like Robert F. Kennedy was in the summer of 1968. [...]
The American mainstream media could learn a thing or two or twelve from Al Jazeera. By examining racism in Kentucky, the Arabic news network boldly and bravely goes where CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News dare not tread — Kentucky.
Welcome to Kentucky.
Read more »»Oh, Johnny boy, the mainstream media may love you but that’s not enough in the age of YouTube. All aboard the Straight Talk Express.
[via The Real McCain]
Read more »»Another Dharma Initiative video, this time detailing the station known as The Orchid.
Also, have you ever noticed that they say “What?” a lot on LOST?
Read more »»LOST credits in the style of BSG. (Yes, I’m obsessed. Deal with it!)
Read more »»Former Arkansas governor, Republican presidential candidate, morbidly obese American, and still devout Christian, Mike Huckabee, made a HILARIOUS joke during a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, after a loud bang echoed from backstage:
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair. He’s getting ready to speak. [...]
Once again, West Virginia….
It’s funny how these uninformed voters, in particular the woman trying to look trendy in the coffee shop (you need a Mac to do that), won’t vote for Obama because she think he’s either a Muslim (he’s not) or that he wasn’t born in America (he was — in Hawaii). [...]
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