Monthly Archives: January 2010

Angry Black Links – Hope for Haiti

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  • Oh Twihards.  You’re so twitarded.  Lamebook.
  • You’ve probably all heard by now about the fucking ridiculous Supreme Court ruling that rolled back 100 years of campaign finance reform and essentially allows corporations to throw as much money into the campaign process as they want to.  You know…because corporations are people, just like you and me.  Let me put it to you like this: As of June 2008, Obama had raised nearly 265 million dollars in private donations mostly via regular people donating small amounts.  As of that same time frame, McCain had only raised about 97 million.  That’s all going to change now.  Basically, our voices are going to be drowned out by the voices of corporations.  USA…brought to you by Carl’s Jr.  Slate.

  • You know what bothers me more than Heidi Montag being a veign celbrity?  Bad spelling.    Regretsy.
  • “Pigs are fast, fornicating, fantastic creatures who stink of rancid awesomeness.”  Also?  They are delicious.  The Oatmeal.
  • Here’s a live stream of the Hope for Haiti Now telethon.  If you haven’t donated anything, what’s wrong with you?  Seriously.  You have 5 dollars, don’t you?  Gawker.
  • But if you do donate, maybe stay away from Wyclef’s Yele Organization.  Let’s just say he may not be on the up and up.  Gawker.
  • Amazing dog rescue from a California river.  Jezebel.

Seriously, y’all.  Donate something to Haiti.  It’s the right thing to do.

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Sookie Sookie: Conan O'Brien

Bye-Bye Conan

Tonight is Conan’s final show on The Tonight Show.  Bye-bye Conan.  You’re getting 45 million and the right to take your wacky hijinx to another network as soon as September.  Good on ya.

Hey, NBC?  Iceberg!  Right ahead!

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If y’all haven’t been watching The Tonight Show this week, you really should get thee to Hulu and watch them.  Wednesday’s show was particularly hilair.  His monologue was brutally funny, and he even brought out Late Night‘s Masturbating Bear (NBC banned the poor jack off from The Tonight Show.)  And then:

After returning from commercial, O’Brien mocked Leno’s final day “Here are all the kids born to my staff during my time at The Tonight Show” moment with a rodent twist. Then, O’Brien gleefully explained to the audience that the one advantage of only having three days left on the air was that he could safely waste as much of NBC’s money as possible. And with that, he introduced the newest Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien character: the Bugatti Veyron Mouse (price tag: $1.5 million). And if that wasn’t enough, O’Brien then went to commercial as the classic Rolling Stones song Satisfaction played. How much do you think the licensing fees were for that one?

That particular clip isn’t available on the Hoo-loo, but GawkerTV has it.  Go watch it; it’s the third clip down.  I have a feeling all of it will be ripped from the Internets about ten minutes after Conan’s last show tonight.  Set thine DVRs, friends.  He’s really sticking it to NBC, and good.

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I Almost Started Feeling Sorry for Heidi Montag…

But then I remembered she sucks.


I'm so sad.  On the inside and out.

My eyes are raining. ::frowny face:

Remember how Heidi Montag told People that she was “absolutely beyond obsessed” with plastic surgery, like, five days ago?  Well this week’s People is coming out soon (or is already out… hey, I’m not an expert on the comings and goings of People), and little Miss Braindead is backpedaling from those statements.  Now she claims that she’s not addicted to plastic surgery.

Um, word check?  Can anyone think of a word that falls between “absolutely beyond obsessed” and “addicted”?  If so, please let me know.  Because I’ll be good and gottdamned if I can think of one:

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Angry Black Lady Chronicles: Blue Shield is Trying to Kill Me

Today, I had what some might describe as a traumatic health care experience. I like to describe it as “fucking ridiculous.”

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Poo, indeed

I’ve got this little bastard of a tumor in my head. Y’all all probably know that by now. You’re probably all like “yeah, pituitary tumor, blah blah blah. Just shut up about it already.” And that’s when I’ll be like, “No, YOU FIRST!” And then you’ll look at me in a confused manner because let’s face it, what I just said doesn’t make any fucking sense.

But let’s carry on anyway, shall we?

I’ve been wrangling with my insurance company for a couple weeks now, trying to get them to find me a damn endocrinologist who can give me some damn information about my damn tumor.

I like to refer to my tumor as “Tumer Willis” because 1) I’m AWESOME; 2) I just thought of it; and 3) I can avoid making another Kindergarten Cop joke.

For some stupid reason, as of last week, my Blue Shield-assigned medical group had only one endocrinologist in-network. So I got a referral to see the lone endocrinologist, Dr. X. Well turns out that Dr. X is not a pituitary specialist. He’s a diabetes specialist.  Which I exactly don’t have.

So, I manage to get an emergency appointment with a top notch endocrinologist at Cedars-Sinai (also known as the place where Britney went after she lost her shit.) After much wrangling with Blue Shield (I wrangled and my primary care physician wrangled and even her nurse wrangled), I got nowhere.  But suddenly (of course) they magically found another endocrinologist in-network: The mysterious Dr. Suk.  So I get a referral for Dr. Suk.

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Would you go here for medical care? I did.

Things didn’t bode well when I called Dr. Suk to make an appointment and was informed that I could “stop by” between 2 and 6 in the afternoon.

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Australian Woman Has 300 Orgasms. Each Day.

What the biscuits? abl-michelle-thompson-suffers-from-psas

Um…so…yeah… ::squeezes legs together and wiggles uncomfortably::

Some lady in Britain has some disease I’ve never heard of (which, frankly, is pretty common considering I’m not a doctor…well of medicine, anyway; I am, however, a doctor of AWESOME), and claims that the medical condition results in her suffering enjoying having up to 300 orgasms a day:

Michelle Thompson, who suffers from Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome, thought she was just too demanding for men and would never find the man of her dreams.

Apparently, Michelle wore out a string of boyfriends who couldn’t keep up with her, sexically.  Then she started shagging her neighbor and turns out he could keep her, er, happy?  Is happy the right word?:

But she has been with her neighbour Andrew Carr, 32, for the past six months and he’s as keen for sexual intercourse as she is and they make love 10 times a day.

“Andrew has changed my life. I’m no longer looking for a cure for my orgasms – I’ve found it,” Michelle told The News of the World newspaper in the UK.

“Now I have a huge grin on my face all the time, and it’s not just because of the orgasms.”

This is not exactly the most exciting of posts, and I’ve thought about writing it for two days simply because the following might be my favorite sentence in the history of sentences written on or around a newspaper story, including newspaper stories that haven’t been written yet for newspapers that haven’t been founded and then promptly gone bankrupt because Al Gore created the Internet:

Michelle’s rare condition means she always craves sex and can climax at any time anywhere.  She even had to quit a job in a biscuit factory because the machines kept setting her off.

I don’t even have a closing witticism or joke or whatnizzle for this post.

I mean, what’s left to say when someone has had to quit a job making cookies biscuits because the damn cookie biscuit machines kept making her precious lady sing?

As Jennifer Love Hewitt might say, “It ain’t over ’til the precious lady vagazzles!”

(No, I have no idea what means.  Which means J.Lo.Hew. totes said that shit.)

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"I ALREADY WORK AROUND THE CLOCK!"

What a Difference a Meme Makes

I guarantee that if you watch this clip from Extraordinary Measures, Harrison Ford’s latest cinematic fuckery, for at least 2 minutes you’ll either die laughing or go insane.  Or, or, or you’ll be all like, “meh,” and go about your day.

Did I nail it?

But seriously, I’ve been trying to see how long I can stand listening to it, and I’ve only made it 40 seconds.  Try it.

Personally, I still prefer “This is Sparta!!!!”

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Sookie Sookie: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today is his birthday.  Take a moment and remember all that he did and sacrificed in his lifetime.  Do it.  Do it now.  Then go celebrate in whatever way you see fit.  I’m going to celebrate by watching season 7 of 24 because it’s raining outside and Cruise is telling me I don’t have to leave the house today.  Besides, Jack Bauer and Martin Luther King, Jr. go hand in hand like pipe bombs and chicken soup, don’tcha think?

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No More Mr. Gay Guy

China won’t admit it has teh Gay abl-gay_china

In news that shocked exactly no one,  China has dropped the chopstick on the first ever Mr. Gay China pageant.  Apparently, the organizers of the Mr. Gay China pageant were attempting to covertly organize a pageant to pick their very first Mr. Gay China and send him as a delegate to the Worldwide Mr. Gay pageant.  (I love how they call them “delegates.”  It makes them sound so official-like.)

Police shut down the first-ever Mr. Gay China pageant just before the event started Friday, but organizers had planned to privately select a candidate from the eight contestants. They have now reversed their decision, so no one from China will compete at the pageant in Oslo, Norway.

“This was a very carefully considered decision,” said Ben Zhang, a pageant organizer. “We just cannot send anyone, the organizers and competitors came to this decision together.”

Zhang declined to elaborate on the reasons for not sending a delegate.

Executive producer of the Worldwide Gay Pageant,Tore Aasheim (sometimes the jokes just write themselves) elaborated, stating that Mr. Gay China organizers would not be sending a delegate to the Worldwide pageant in Oslo, Norway because the Chinese had threatened to strip the citizenship of any Chinese national who attended.  And really, what gay dude wants to spend the rest of his days living in a land of tall blond Nordics?  Oh, wait…

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Senegal. Whoa.

Offering voluntary repatriation and free land to Haitians abl-senegalflag

As you sit and ponder the disgusting responses to the devastation in Haiti from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who accused Obama of trying to curry favor with minorities through his swift response and aid to the victims of the tragedy: “Everything this president sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and he will use it to burnish his credentials with minorities in this country and around the world, and to accuse Republicans of having no compassion” and his claims that “We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax,” think about what Senegal is doing to help:

Senegal is offering free land to Haitians wishing to “return to their origins” following this week’s devastating earthquake, which has destroyed the capital and buried thousands of people beneath rubble.

Senegal’s octogenarian President Abdoulaye Wade told a meeting of his advisers that Haitians are the sons and daughters of Africa, because the country was founded by slaves, including some believed to have come from Senegal.

“The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin,” said Wade’s spokesman Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye late Saturday following the president’s announcement.

“Senegal is ready to offer them parcels of land – even an entire region. It all depends on how many Haitians come. If it’s just a few individuals, then we will likely offer them housing or small pieces of land. If they come en masse we are ready to give them a region,” he said.

Rush?  Please die in a fire.

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