In response to all the whining about the Reebok commercials denigrating women: an Oscar winner and two Oscar-nominated actresses advertise a product designed to get women taken more seriously in the workplace. Funny or Die presents Marion Cotillard for Forehead Tittaes.

#6, since she's French, shouldn't those be "tete-ies?"

http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/87461092.html#commentbox

"A North Carolina middle school teacher is in the hot seat over his controversial style of teaching.
Rex Roland teaches sixth graders at Enka Middle School in Candler, N.C.
Patty Clement says her child was repeatedly bullied by Roland in class and she wants it to stop.
Clement says on a November vocabulary assignment Roland wrote the word "loser" after correcting the paper.
Just a few weeks ago, another graded assignment made its way home, and at the top of the page was the word "loser" underlined twice.
The Buncombe County School District released a statement saying that this is a personnel matter that's being looked into.
It's important to note that some parents defend Roland's teaching style saying its his way of relating to his students. None would go on camera with us."

that's the article since the link probably won't work (i'm not good at them, sorry crid)

i almost can't even believe it's not a hoax but who knows, if we're lucky maybe it is...

And now for something completely different: Throwing newborn babies off a 50 foot tall building to thank God.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ed_1209300037&o=1

We need a little levity here today, and since April 1 is fast approaching, I offer you: Left Handed Cell Phone.

Everyone saw these, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saqO_ZqX6uY

Faves: Renegade Pervert, the robbery, and emo duel.

(Came to mind because there's a falling baby in there, too: They make a fun sound.)

"Throwing newborn babies off a 50 foot tall building to thank God."

Muslims and Hindus, working together at last.

Say what you will, but that is pretty much the definition of a bouncing baby boy!

Amy, while you're in Tucson, check out the Guadalajara Grill. One of the locals recommended it to us last year. They make your salsa to order at the table. Very yum.

Slow free swim- I'm sure most of you have seen this already, but it's worth posting for those who haven't. You gotta give it 60 seconds before it gets, well, strange.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mVpGmoES3w

I've always loved that one, Eric.

I'll raise you another oldie, but goodie clip - the adorable dance scene that inspired Tarantino.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pOXjQLh7Y

House Democrats appear set to pass Senate health bill without voting on it

If Louise Slaughter were running against a pile of dog poo this fall, I would support the pile of dog poo.

That was cool Jody- I've never seen that...

Some more stuff:

Eric Massa's Navy Files

Just another family man, I guess, just like Mark Foley and Larry Craig. Of course, if Massa's actually a bachelor, does it really make his behavior more respectable.

The worst part of killing your own chikens in the defeathering

Too late to swim freely?

What, the fuck, does the LA Times have against Toyota?

Every time I've picked up (not purchased, mind you, just skimmed) the Los Angeles Times in the past three weeks, there's been at least one prominent story crapping on Toyota, and often two of them. What's up with that?

See also.

I own a Toyota (Scion). I adore it. I'd by another Toyota in a heartbeat if I had cash on hand, because [A.] they deserve a little love for making such excellent cars in a time when people are spreading lies and weird ideas about them and [B.] a Toyota buyer could probably get a good, if unjustly depressed, price.

All I can imagine is that the truly commie-minded forces on this planet think America's new socialist motor company (formerly called GM) shouldn't have to compete with a firm that's so good at building cars that they can turn a profit from it. So they're going to do everything they can to stop those profits. Truth is not a factor.

Either that, or Toyota decided not to buy as many full-page ads as they did a few years ago, and this is editorial payback.

I'm now truly eager for the Los Angeles Times to fail... And by fail, I mean for all those pathetic fuckers to be out of work. I am hoping for this change. Do you remember the lapel buttons from 2008? Hope is very important.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Toyotas are fantastic. I rented a Camry for over a month while my little BMW was being repaired after a wreck, and it was great. I love my current tiny Nissan, but I can't deny Toyotas drive well. My mom has the Lexus that's on the same frame as the Camry, and it's a dream to drive.

You may be right, Crid. It does seem that people are turning on the companies that have made a profit in the last few years, as if that alone makes them corrupt instead of just good businesses with quality products.

FOX News is reporting on Toyota's problems as well. Does that make them lackeys for Government Motors also?

Mere "reporting" isn't the problem. In the pages of the LA Times, I read an absolutely insane hatred of capitalist success, no matter how humble... And Toyota has both success and humility (I've seen it from within as a short-term freelancer.) In each section of the LAT, including sports, headline after headline and feature after feature describe man's inhumanity to man and the withering horrors of poverty and incompetence; and then will come these Toyota articles, often side-by-side, fraudulently belittling the unprecedentedly successful enterprise as an unbalanced, bloodthirsty viper pit.

This is lunacy, absolute moon-howling madness.

You will have noticed that public finances are under collapse. The only people who can fix this are the ones who pay taxes. Yet in the mentality of my hometown newspaper, no human being must be allowed to actually create value, not when there are so many people who cannot; their fear of power imbalance is that exaggerated. They just can't risk having some people prove to be more useful than others.

They're not merely killing the goose that lays the golden egg: They're personally and deliberately choking the human aspiration that makes our life worth living.

These are not nice people. They are not kind. They are not compassionate. They don't want what's best for anyone. "Nihilists" is too kind for them, as that word has drifted from the root it shares with the annihilation they bring to human exchange. They want our comforts just to be here, waiting for us: No one will be allowed to provide them at any price.

They want people to lose their jobs.

I want it to happen to them first.

Let's all get our news from the internet, OK?

>>"Nihilists" is too kind for them, as that word has drifted from the root it shares with the annihilation they bring to human exchange. They want our comforts just to be here, waiting for us: No one will be allowed to provide them at any price.
They want people to lose their jobs.
I want it to happen to them first.Let's all get our news from the internet, OK?

I say let 'em stay, Crid.

It's important to know the pricks you are kicking against in order to fully appreciate the ideological hidey-holes you prefer on the internet!

Also, calm down!

Don't judge, Jody.

What's a hidey-hole? Is it toshly?

>>What's a hidey-hole? Is it toshly?

That sort of mood, eh Crid?

Okay - a litmus test!

What do you think of the link I posted (above) for Eric?

First of all, I posted additional snot on the other thread accidentally, the top one for Sunday. YOU'RE the one using a full real name (even if it isn't yours), so you're the least hidey of all of us.

Props.

Second, the dance steps were recognized, but Tarantino's not my cup of tea... I walked outta Pulp Fiction shortly after the dance sequences, and missed about half the scenes people remember with so much tender romance and fondness... (The mindless violence; the anal rape.) Y'know, the late nineties were a blurry waft of unshared conversation to people who missed PF & Seinfeld.

The clip felt like Breathless. About 20 years ago, a high school buddy and I went to see that in this arty theater in West L.A., then spilled out into the afternoon sunshine (as depicted) with that "deedileee duuuuuuuue-doot" theme stuck in our heads.... The saxophone version from later in the film, not the version heard in the supplied clip. (Note: " 200 Motels"!)

Were we speaking of Travolta? When the Scientologist made a sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Ebert said (paraphrase) 'It's no fair calling him a dancer when they only shoot him from the waist up', and that came to mind when watching your clip. It's no fair calling it dancing when ankles are never higher than knees and elbows are never higher than shoulders.

(Note: Ron can't take his eyes off Nancy, even if that's an Annenberg wife [or someone] in his arms.)

And for the record, even in sixth grade –when I was introduced to the paper– litmus tests always came back acidic, never alkaline.

Grrrr.

Whooops, wrong link for Breathless... HERE's your deeedilee-duuuuu-doot. This is my Friday night, OK? You never had a glass of wine on Friday night?

when ankles are never higher than knees and elbows are never higher than shoulders.

Exactly, Crid. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to... oh, wait, dancing.

Why, you saucy little minx..
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Pick a desert paradise:

• What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

• What happens in Dubai stays in Dubai for a month.

As horrifying as the legal system there seems to be, I'm as concerned that the restaurant where the incident took place was called Bob's Easy Diner. Sounds like they're just inviting trouble.