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Leave The Creepy Russian Ice Dancers Alone!
Last night, controversial Russian Ice Dancers Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin revealed their toned-down Aboriginal-themed costumes during the free skate performance that brought them to a current bronze medal position.
What a difference a few leaves make
Hmm. We’re still searching for the “interesting,” “respectful” and “Southeast Asian” nuances that this team keeps referring to regarding their costumes. Surely all of that “big research” they did to keep the performance authentic paid off somewhere.
Give us a few minutes days months years. This may take awhile.
[NBC Olympics: Russian Dancers Make Slight Changes To Costumes]
Filed under: "Southeast Asian" influences? What?, 2010 Winter Olympics, Aboriginal Costumes, Always Do Your Homework, Controversy, Cultural Theft, Defiance, Ice Dancing Is Lame Beyond Words, Maxim Shabalin, Offensive Costumes, Oksana Domnina, Put Down the Glue Gun, Racial Drag, Russian Ice Dancers, the Olympics, Vancouver Olympics, Vancouver Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics
DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! The Obama Bow-cklash
To the angry, inflammatory, right-wing pundits (like Michelle Malkin and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh), and all of the folks that are losing sleep over the fact that President Obama (gasp!) bowed while shaking the hand of Japanese Emperor Akihito…
…there’s a fascinating new concept we’d like to introduce to you called “SHOWING RESPECT.”
Continue reading DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! The Obama Bow-cklash
Filed under: Attitude, Change, Conservatards, Conservative Pundits, Controversy, Cultural Diplomacy, Emeror Akihito, Evolution, Global Warming, Japan, Michelle Malkin, President Barack Obama, Respeck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, The American Way, Uproar, World Relasians
How To Piss Off Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Lazy Mammogram Guidelines
Did anybody else catch today’s conversation between CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Nurse Lucy Marion from the U.S. Preventive Task Force (the group that released this week’s controversial recommendation that women should begin routine mammograms 10 years later than previously determined, and perform less self-examinations–in order to prevent unnecessary “anxiety” and costly biopsy tests)?
We don’t have the terse/awkward video, but here’s a transcript of the throwdown:
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: About 75 to 90 percent of breast cancers are found in women who have absolutely no family history and no identifiable risk factors. If you are a woman hearing that at age 40, right now watching, 75 to 90 percent of breast cancers found with people who have no risk factors, no family history, what should they do?
LUCY MARION, PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE: I would not recommend it. I would not make a recommendation. We’re saying that the benefits are small.
GUPTA: What do you mean by that? When you say the benefits are small? Let’s not beat around the bush here. What exactly are you trying to say?
MARION: We look at it in various ways. For example, we look at life years gained by the actual screening every year or every other year. And the life years gained for that group is not very large. There are some life years gained. But it’s not very large.
GUPTA: You’re a nurse and…
MARION: And I know…
GUPTA: I don’t want to, you know…
MARION: I am.
GUPTA: … dig ourselves into a whole [sic] here. You’re a nurse, you’re in a profession of healing and compassion.
Are you comfortable with what you’re saying right now? Continue reading How To Piss Off Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Lazy Mammogram Guidelines
Filed under: Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness, Breast Exams, CNN, Controversy, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Early Detection, Health Care Reform, Lucy Marion R.N., Mammograms, Medical Insurance Companies, Recommendations, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Olympic Winners and Liu-sers
I can just see the editorial meeting at Harper’s Bazaar:
Editor-in-Chief Jamie Huckbody tells one of the underlings that this summer is “all about the Olympics.” The staffers buzz with creative worry and focus.
“The Olympics are so hot right now.”
“But the Games are so controversial. It’s that whole China thing.”
“They’re in Beijing right now? What’s Beijing couture? Is everything silk? Silk, silk, silk!”
“No seriously. Steven Spielberg isn’t even going.”
“We need something that’s like China-America fusion. China-American unity! Like PF Changs!”
“I love that. I love that!”
“I’VE GOT IT.”
And so we have…
Hunh. I always knew “fusion” was a bad word. Take that, Miles Davis.
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Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: "Fusion" Is Almost Always A Bad Idea, Bad Concepts, Beijing, China, Controversy, Harper's Bazaar, Idiotic Photo Spreads, Lucy Liu, Miles Davis, the Olympics
When in Doubt, Blame Hillary
On Thursday, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton found herself at the center of a new controversy, and I found myself saying, enough is enough.
Authorities in Florida arrested 20 year-old Calin Wong for allegedly threatening over the internet to re-enact the Virginia Tech mass shootings. When police raided the home Wong shares with his parents, they discovered 4 AK-47s out of 13 firearms in all and 5,000 rounds of ammo “stacked on shelves in plain view.”
Detective Antonio Aquino told the AP that, upon questioning, Wong denied he was planning a killing spree:
“He says it’s a lucrative business,” Aquino said. “He said if Hillary Clinton wins she’ll put a ban on assault rifles, and these assault rifles will be worth more in value.”
Is Wong secretly working for the McCain campaign? The NRA? Ya gotta wonder. As for Hillary potentially banning assault rifles when President, could you blame her? Especially after her harrowing experience in Bosnia, when she narrowly escaped sniper fire on the tarmac?
Poor Hill. Taking one on the chin for someone else’s homicidal tendencies. Girlfriend can’t catch a break!
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Thanks, Karen!
Filed under: Assault Rifles, Calin Wong, Controversy, Gun Control, Hillary Clinton, Unfunny Stuff, Virginia Tech
BABEWATCH: Kyung Chung
Name: Kyung Chung
Occupation: American Apparel model and photographer
Why She’s a Babe: Because she makes us want to go out and buy puo puo (granny) glasses, even though they’d make us look like cross-eyed librarians. And she looks hot in a leotard. And because she possesses The Ass That Launched a Thousand Controversies, when a self-portrait of her booty clad only in tights went up on a American Apparel billboard in New York last fall.
Click here for the ad.
Click here to read what Kyung had to say about it.
Click here for what the Huffington Post had to say about it.
(p.s. Since it’s Super Tuesdaysian, we thought we’d mention that American Apparel endorsed Obama and McCain. Just in case you need another two cents.)
Filed under: American Apparel, Asian Models, Controversy, Granny Glasses, Hot Ass, Kyung Chung, Leotards Are My Favorite Kind of 'tard, Self-Portraits
Hot Disgrhetto Mess
So I finally got around to watching We Got to Do Better, the BET show formally known as Hot Ghetto Mess, which got a title change after a 5,000-name petition went around protesting the show.
Some of the video clips, like the one in the pilot that shows a toothless black man butchering the Star-Spangled Banner, are totally objectionable. It’s Lowest Common Denominat-Humor, laughing at people who are poor, disenfranchised, and possibly mentally ill. The show throws in clips of white people humiliating themselves for “balance,” though that just seems like a panicked network note come to life. “If we make fun of poor white people, then it will all be okay,” is how I imagine that story meeting going.
But there is one notable mess on the show, and that’s Charlie Murphy. He’s stiff and awkward as the host, as though he’s afraid of being at the center of this controversy. Does he remember that brother Eddie picked up a tranny prostitute and still managed to become the star of three children’s movies? He’s also so bug-eyed in the wraparounds that I wonder if a) he has a thyroid problem or b) someone is using really teensy script on the teleprompter to fuck with him.
I can’t help thinking that, if Dave Chappelle hadn’t gone batshit, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Damn it!
Filed under: Bring Back the Chappelle Show, Bug Eyes, Charlie Murphy, Controversy, Disgrafrican-Americans, Disgraucasians, Messes, Trannies
