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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
VIDEO: YouTube Clip of N-Word-Laced 'Alf' Outtakes Ignites Controversy - Live Feed
VIDEO: YouTube Clip of N-Word-Laced 'Alf' Outtakes Ignites Controversy - Live Feed
VIDEO: YouTube Clip of N-Word-Laced 'Alf' Outtakes Ignites Controversy
1980s blooper reel showing character mocking Tourette's Syndrome finds new life online.
A classic '80s TV character is getting a second shot at fame -- or actually, infamy -- thanks to a blooper reel posted on YouTube that features the puppet star of Alf using the N-word repeatedly.
The clip of outtakes was posted online a year ago without much notice, but controversy was recently ignited when it went viral after being featured on the kitsch website BadTVBlog on Dec. 21.
The video includes excerpts from show rehearsals in which the alien character (a hand-puppet operated by series creator Paul Fusco) is seen parodying a then-recent 1989 episode of L.A. Law that included a character with Tourette's Syndrome uttering the N-word. The puppet can also be heard cursing and using sexual innuendo during scenes with a female co-star. The Tourette's segment begins at the 4:40 mark in the video below. Warning: graphic language.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tucker Carlson - Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks
Tucker Carlson - Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is a multi-named television pundit, a former bow-tie wearer, and a dick. His insufferability was inflicted on America – or at least that tiny fraction of America that watches MSNBC – for three hours every weekday on the eponymous showTucker, which aired at 4pm, 6pm and 2am ET, until it was canceled on March 10, 2008.
Tucker Carlson
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Journalism career
Carlson’s career as a journalist reached its brief peak in 1999 with his profile of Number One dick George W. Bush in the debut issue of dick Tina Brown’s Talk magazine. When Bush mentioned that he’d seen an interview in which dick Larry King asked the soon-to-be-executed Texas murderer Karla Faye Tucker what she would say to then-Governor Bush if she had the chance to meet with him, Carlson asked Bush what she answered. This provided a set-up for one of the greatest moments of dickishness in the history of mankind, duly reported by Carlson: “‘Please,’ Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, ‘don’t kill me.’” This is the only sentence ever written by Carlson that is worth reading.
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“Journalism” career
Carlson’s career as a “journalist” began in 2000 with his co-hosting of CNN’s The Spin Room, on which he represented the right against liberal Bill Press. The show was quickly cancelled, and Carlson began alternating with dick Robert Novak as the conservative co-host of Crossfire, one of the major dickfests in the annals of broadcasting.
Despite his having appeared on hundreds of Crossfire programs, the only episode anyone remembers is the one from October 15, 2004, when Daily Show host Jon Stewart berated Carlson and his liberal co-host/co-dick Paul Begala for their “partisan hackery” and begged them to “stop hurting America.” Carlson told Stewart, “I do think you’re more fun on your show,” and Stewart told Carlson, “You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.” Less than three months later, Carlson learned that CNN would not be renewing his contract and he signed with MSNBC.
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Rape charge
Carlson wrote his autobiography, Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News, in 2003, at the ripe old age of 34. The book, which no one has ever seen a copy of, reportedly contains the revelation that Carlson was once accused of rape by a mentally disturbed woman he’d never met in Louisville, Kentucky, a city he’d never set dick in.
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Neckwear
On April 11, 2006, Carlson announced his decision to cease wearing bow ties, a dweeby affectation (shared by fellow pundit and dick George Will) for which he was appropriately ridiculed over the years. “I just decided I wanted to give my neck a break,” he explained, oblivious to how many viewers also wanted to give his neck a break.
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Terpsichorean exploits
In 2006, apparently believing that he wasn’t on TV enough, Carlson competed on the ABC reality series Dancing With the Stars. On September 13, 2006, his boldly exhibited preternatural inability to dance resulted in his being the first contestant to be voted off the show. Nonetheless, Carlson appears to take some perverse pride in the whole thing, as he continues to include this humiliating performance in his official MSNBC bio, where he remains a contributor/wiener.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Lambeau Leap Crotch Grab | Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin News, Talk, Sports, Weather | Bill Michaels
Lambeau Leap Crotch Grab | Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin News, Talk, Sports, Weather | Bill Michaels
Lambeau Leap Crotch Grab
By Bill Michaels
Donald Driver, on the Greenhouse Tuesday afternoon, stated that Ruvell Martin's crotch was groped when he took his Lambeau Leap this past Sunday. Driver stated, "That just ain't right". You can spill suds on a Packer's helmet but yanking it, now that's just wrong!
When you don't have the video tape to go to we, on the Greenhouse, do the next best thing. Photog, Allen Fredrickson was at Lambeau and caught the crotch assault as it happened. Allen, being a listener, was kind enough to send us the evidence.
Take a look below. Do you know this fanatic Packer Yanker?
Photo by Allen Fredrickson
Lambeau Leap Crotch Grab | Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin News, Talk, Sports, Weather | Bill Michaels
Lambeau Leap Crotch Grab | Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin News, Talk, Sports, Weather | Bill Michaels
Lambeau Leap Crotch Grab
By Bill Michaels
Story Created: May 13, 2009
Story Updated: May 14, 2009
Donald Driver, on the Greenhouse Tuesday afternoon, stated that Ruvell Martin's crotch was groped when he took his Lambeau Leap this past Sunday. Driver stated, "That just ain't right". You can spill suds on a Packer's helmet but yanking it, now that's just wrong!
When you don't have the video tape to go to we, on the Greenhouse, do the next best thing. Photog, Allen Fredrickson was at Lambeau and caught the crotch assault as it happened. Allen, being a listener, was kind enough to send us the evidence.
Take a look below. Do you know this fanatic Packer Yanker?
Photo by Allen Fredrickson
Lambeau Leap Crotch Grab
By Bill Michaels
Story Created: May 13, 2009
Story Updated: May 14, 2009
Donald Driver, on the Greenhouse Tuesday afternoon, stated that Ruvell Martin's crotch was groped when he took his Lambeau Leap this past Sunday. Driver stated, "That just ain't right". You can spill suds on a Packer's helmet but yanking it, now that's just wrong!
When you don't have the video tape to go to we, on the Greenhouse, do the next best thing. Photog, Allen Fredrickson was at Lambeau and caught the crotch assault as it happened. Allen, being a listener, was kind enough to send us the evidence.
Take a look below. Do you know this fanatic Packer Yanker?
Photo by Allen Fredrickson
Saturday, December 25, 2010
When the Diagnosis Is 'Dead Butt Syndrome' - NYTimes.com
When the Diagnosis Is 'Dead Butt Syndrome' - NYTimes.com
When the Diagnosis Is ‘Dead Butt Syndrome’
By JEN A. MILLER
My butt, unfortunately, is dead.
“Dead butt syndrome,” the sports medicine doctor said to me after making me go through a series of circus-act contortions that involved swiveling my hip in all directions. His voice was very serious, his tone stern. I wondered if I should start making funeral arrangements for my rear, maybe a New Orleans-style blowout parade?
Hold the tuba. My butt’s not really dead. It can’t be revived with defibrillator paddles, but it can be fixed.
The technical name of the condition I have is gluteus medius tendinosis — an inflammation of the tendons in the gluteus medius, one of three large muscles that make up the butt. It’s a very isolated and painful injury that knocked me out of marathon training in January with stabbing pains in my hip. It’s a symptom related to what running experts hammer at: the need for cross-training and strength training. I was running so much that I told myself I didn’t have time for the exercise machines or weights, so I have no one to blame but myself.
I’ve been running for five years, but I’d never heard of the problem. I ran it by a friend, a former track coach at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was baffled too. I haven’t seen any coverage, though the doctor said it’s fairly common with runners who train for half marathons and beyond. It took him five minutes to figure out the problem.
“A new thought in running medicine is that almost all lower extremity injuries, whether they involve your calf, your plantar fascia or your iliotibial band, are linked to the gluteus medius,” said Dr. Darrin Bright, a sports medicine physician with Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and medical director of that city’s marathon. “In the last five to 10 years, we’ve just realized how much of an important role the gluteus medius plays in stabilizing the hips and the pelvis in running.”
If you think of the pelvis as a cup, the muscles that attach to it, including the three gluteal muscles and the lower abdominals, interact in an intricate choreography to keep the cup upright when you run or walk. If these muscles are strong, the cup stays in place with no pain. If one or more of those muscles is weak, the smaller muscles around the hip take on pressure they weren’t designed to bear.
The cup still stays up, but at a price. First come muscle tears and inflammation, followed by scar tissue in the muscle. If left untreated, this process becomes a cycle that keeps feeding into itself.
“For people who have persistent pain, it’s healing gone wrong,” Dr. Bright said. “That gluteus medius isn’t firing the way it’s supposed to. You’re getting an inhibition of the muscle fibers. It’s kind of dead.”
Some of us run through the pain, which is what I did. And many compensate by adjusting their strides in a way that impedes the gait and can lead to problems in the quads, hamstrings, Achilles tendons, heels, knees, calves, ankles, feet or toes.
“Whether they’re recreational weekend runners up to the elite marathoners, the majority of runners I see have weak gluteus medius and gluteus maximus muscles,” said Dr. David Webner, a sports medicine doctor at Crozer-Keystone Health System in Springfield, Pa.
For about 70 percent of his patients, physical therapy that stretches the muscles in the hip and leg and strengthens the gluteus muscles, along with a temporary reduction in the mileage and intensity of running, resolves the problem. Deep tissue massage, which sends more blood to the area to break up scar tissue, along with strength training may also help to break the cycle of inflammation and scarring.
More advanced approaches include ultrasound guided tenotomy, which uses ultrasound to identify the affected muscles and then “poke little holes in the area of the scar tissue,” Dr. Webner said, or platelet-rich plasma therapy, which involves injections of centrifuged blood products and is what Tiger Woods underwent after knee surgery last year.
Fortunately, I didn’t need to take it that far. I’m lucky — the pain has ebbed with physical therapy and changing one of my weekly runs to a cross-training workout.
“Those runners who do multiple types of exercising are less prone to have weakness than runners who do just running,” said Dr. Webner. “Triathletes who come into my office don’t have as much weakness as just solo runners.”
So I’m biking. I row. I sweat through elliptical workouts at the gym.
And I no longer have the feeling that a pin is stabbing my hip every time I drive. I can sit for more than a half hour without pain. And last month I ran the Amish Bird-in-Hand half marathon, and felt no more discomfort than you’d expect to endure running 13.1 miles through the hills of Pennsylvania Dutch country.
To keep my rear alive, I must be vigilant about continuing to strengthen my lower abdominal and gluteal muscles. Last week, I slacked off and the pain came creeping back.
Is it annoying to have to focus so much on these muscles to run? Absolutely. But if it’ll revive my butt, it’s worth every leg lift and crunch.
Jen A. Miller is the author of “The Jersey Shore: Atlantic City to Cape May.”
Friday, December 24, 2010
Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell Sung to the Tune of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell Sung to the Tune of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell Sung to the Tune of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Did you know that God actually hates Christmas? In a scene that looks straight out of South Park we bring you this heartwarming Christmas song the entire family will enjoy!
(via Christiannightmares
Lyrics:
You'd better watch out,
Get ready to cry,
You'd better go hide,
I'm telling you why,
Cuz Santa Claus will take you to hell...
He is your favorite idol,
You worship at his feet,
But when you stand before your God,
He won't help you take the heat!
So get this fact straight,
You're feelin' God's hate,
Santa's to blame for the economy's fate!
Santa Claus will take you to hell
Don't leave your kids with this red fright,
Just like the priests he'll rape 'em at night!
Santa Claus will take you to hell
You tell the children he is real,
You know that's just a lie,
To justify your own vile sins,
Is the only reason why,
So get this fact straight,
You're feelin' God's hate,
Santa's to blame for the dead soldier's fate
Santa Claus will take you
OH!
Santa Claus, will take you to hell!
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