- For not long enough, male strippers have not been getting
their due. Every bit as skeevy and skanky as their more-celebrated female
counterparts, these hunks of overly tanned, oiled-up man meat working filhty
brass poles in seedy clubs have been largely ignored. Hollywood has discovered
this wrong and is now working overtime to rectify it. Of course, the most
prominent example is the Matthew McConaughey-fronted flick “Magic Mike” with
fellow Hollywood heartthrobs Matthew Bomer and Channing Tatium, which will
shine a light on the truly inspirational world of male strip clubs. Whether
they honor the bad female stripper clichés of daddy issues, coke habits and general
life failure or not, it will be uplifting for the world to see these heroes of
the G-string do their thing. But there obviously were not enough spots in the
film for every well-toned actor who would go in front of the camera dressed as
a sexy cowboy or police officer, so what are the others supposed to do? Follow
the example of “Melissa & Joey”
actor
Joey Lawrence, who will cope with his exclusion from “Magic Mike” by joining the legendary Chippendales in Las
Vegas. Lawrence, who shows up shirtless quite often on his show, will do a
one-time gig with the famous mancers until June 24. Spending a few days with
the bowtie-wearing beefcakes who once had the honor of being lampooned in an
iconic “Saturday Night Live” skit featuring the late Chris Farley should
help the man whose best-known career accomplishment is his catchphrase on the
early ‘90s sitcom “Blossom,” when he frequently uttered the one-word
proclamation, “Woaaah!” Keep up the good work, Joe……….
- Who doesn’t think of white trash when they think of the Ku
Klux Klan? So in a way, it might be fitting that a North Georgia chapter of the
white supremacist group has applied to "adopt" a stretch of highway
in Union County, Georgia. If approved by the Georgia Department of
Transportation, the application would allow these hatemongers to receive state
recognition for cleaning up a one-mile portion of a highway. The International
Keystone Knights of the KKK filed the paperwork on May 21 and the North Georgia
KKK could soon be responsible for cleaning litter on a part of Georgia State
Route 515 near the North Carolina border. "All we want to do is adopt a
highway," said April Chambers, the chapter's secretary. "We're not
doing it for publicity. We're doing it to keep the mountains beautiful. People
throwing trash out on the side of the road ... that ain't right." That’s
right, an official spokesperson for a group who ends her official statement
with, “That ain’t right.” Stay grammatically incorrect, you ignorant fool. A Georgia
DOT spokeswoman refused comment on the application. Oddly enough, not everyone is
in favor of the idea, but Chambers is either clueless or has drank the Kool-Aid
for so long that she doesn’t know better because she actually believes the KKK
is not a racist group. "We're not racists," Chambers said. "We
just want to be with white people. If that's a crime, then I don't know. I
don't understand it." No, clearly you don’t. Hey Mensa, believing you
should only be with white people and that black people are inferior in any way
makes you racist. On the DOT website, a statement about highway adoption reads:
"Any civic-minded organization, business, individual, family, city,
county, state, or federal agency is welcome to volunteer in the Georgia
Adopt-A-Highway program.” Seeing the bigots of the KKK out picking up trash,
which is right about at their level of cultural sophistication, might be
fitting. "I don't see why we can't (adopt the stretch of highway),"
Chambers whined. "Just because I'm white, I can't stick with my own
group?” Why? Because the world isn’t one color, you tool. Learn to embrace
diversity………..
- Managing the Boston Red Sox has been a real challenge
for Bobby Valentine. After his team suffered a weekend sweep at home to the
Washington Nationals to drop to 29-31 and six games out of first place,
Valentine ranted against biased umpiring and suggested that all of the calls in
the series went against his team. He alluded to inherent umpiring bias and
followed up his complaints on Monday by suggesting that it may be time for Major
League Baseball to come up with a new system for calling balls and strikes by
expanding the role of technology and replay in the sport. He argued that such
steps would take the human element out of the process and make it more uniform.
When asked prior to Monday's game with the Miami Marlins if he had received a
call from the commissioner's office regarding his critical words about the
umpires, Valentine said he hadn't, but added, "I probably will, right?
Isn't that great when that happens? Then they fine you, take your money,
reprimand you, as though I did something wrong. It's great. It's a great
system. I love it." That led to a diatribe in which he argued that if hitters
constantly swing and miss at balls they believe to be strikes, umpires can't be
expected to get all the calls right. “W hen someone says the most ridiculous words
that I ever heard: 'But we like the human factor.' It's criminal that we allow
our game to scar a young person like that, and then it continues on. I think in
2012 it should not be part of the process,” Valentine explained while referring
back to his days doing broadcast work at the Little League World Series. “I
don't care what anyone says. I could get fined for it every day of my life.
It's my belief. Our game is not somebody else's strike zone. Our game is what
the book says. That's how it should be played from Little League to
Cooperstown, to make it fair, to make it right." His main point, beneath
all the bravado, was that the system is flawed and that all of the blame shouldn’t
go on the umpires. Valentine ended his rant by pointing out that he has no idea
how the Internet or fax machines work, but that their existence should mean
baseball can design a functioning system to accurately call balls and strikes………..
- Drafting a constitution in politically tumultuous Egypt
should be fun. Finding a governing document to appease warring factions with
drastically different, extremely rigid views on the world shouldn’t be
difficult at all….assuming everyone is actually willing to have an open mind,
be cooperative and strike a few compromises. In other words, not happening.
That much as evident Tuesday as Egypt's
parliament met to select a 100-member panel that will draft a new constitution
only to have liberal lawmakers boycott the session. In a joint meeting of the
body's lower and upper chambers, which are both dominated by Islamists, liberal
lawmakers were AWOL even though the session was called by military ruler Field
Marshal Hussein Tantawi after negotiations between political factions trying to
select the panel reached a dead end. A court ruling disbanded a previous panel
that was dominated by Islamists and liberal lawmakers contend Islamists are attempting
to do the same thing again. Whenever the panel is finally convened, it will
have to determine the balance of powers for Egypt's key state institutions and
other key issues that have smoldered since Hosni Mubarak stepped down in
February 2011 in the face of a popular uprising. "It's Egypt's
constitution we are talking about here," said Ahmed Said, leader of the
secularist Free Egyptians party. "The math of majority and minority should
not apply." If the selection of the panel is this much of a fight, imagine
how ugly the scene will get when the constitution is finally written. The
liberal lawmakers who withdrew from the debate did not sound regretful about
their decision. "I see that what has been done carries a hint of
unconstitutionality," said independent lawmaker Youssef el-Badry. "We
have pulled out rather than take part in an illegal process." On the
opposing side, Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers say they are abiding by an
agreement reached with non-Islamist groups that they equally share the 100
seats. Liberals, leftists, women and minority Christians disagree and fear that
the new constitution will have an Islamist slant. The longer the showdown drags
on, the longer the ugly transitional period between Mubarak and the next
president continues……
- Hang on, science. Suggesting that certain foods are good
for overall health one day and will kill a person the next day is fine, but don’t
go dropping shocking revelations on the world like your new claim that unhealthy
foods, such as sweets and chips, are more appealing to people who haven't had
enough sleep. In other words, people who can’t get to sleep in the middle of
the night may stumble to the refrigerator and pick out a carton of ice cream or
grab a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos from the pantry? Wow. According to Marie-Pierre
St-Onge, a research associate at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center and an assistant
professor at Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition in New York
City, those are the facts. St-Onge and her research team studied the areas of
the brain that were most active when people were looking at healthy or
unhealthy foods and learned that the reward centers of the brain were activated
when sleep-deprived subjects saw pictures of unhealthy foods. "We found
regions associated with reward and motivation -- those that are involved with
addiction and pleasure-seeking behaviors -- were more strongly activated in the
short-sleep phase," St-Onge said. She studied 25 normal-weight men and
women who underwent fMRI after five nights of restricted sleep (four hours a
night) and then again after five nights of being allowed to sleep for nine
hours. When shown pictures of healthy foods, unhealthy foods and nonfood items,
unhealthy foods activated areas of the brain considered reward centers only in
people whose sleep was restricted. There was no such activation in subjects
with a full night of sleep. A separate study at the University of California,
Berkeley added to the discussion, which will continue this weekend at the
Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting in Boston. In that
study, researchers found significantly impaired activity in an area in the
frontal lobe of the brain in sleep-deprived people. The frontal lobe helps
control behavior and make complex choices, so making smart food choices when
extremely tired would be more difficult. In the second study 16 healthy young
adults underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) once after a full
night of sleep and then again after 24 hours of sleep deprivation. They then
rated their desire for 80 different foods during each test. The takeaway, as
always, is to install a lock on the fridge before bed and your problems will be
solved………..
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