Lakotas Secede

The Lakota Indian Tribe seceded from the Union today. That's right, the Tribe most well known for their legendary leaders Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, announced to the State Department that they "are no longer citizens of the United States of America..." The Tribe's spokesperson and Indian activist, Russell Means, also encouraged others to join them. Tribe members are scattered across Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming

The announcement comes after a 33-year campaign, during which time the tribe worked to, "get their ducks in a row" while drafting its "declaration of continuing independence." The final form of which was delivered to the US Federal Government today.

According to Means, the new country would be tax-free and they would issue their citizens passports and driver's licenses-- all this for the low, low price of renouncing your US citizenship!

The Latokas claim they've been oppressed by the US, which has led to their tribe's overwhelmingly high unemployment, teen suicide, and infant mortality rates. (According to various news articles, this claim is made on the "Latoka Freedom Movement" website, but after repeated searches, I was unable to find the site.) Naturally, creating their own country will solve these problems....

Logistics and legality aside, what's the over/under on a group of mostly unemployed people building and sustaining their own country within a country that has in tact for more than two-hundred years? Anyone?

Let Them Eat Cake

A Dutch inmate received a tasty treat with side effects recently. The AP reports that officers accidentally gave a man, who is serving time for growing cannabis, a hashish cake for breakfast. The cake, seized in an unrelated case, was being stored near inmate meals. Hmmm... perhaps they should buy a mini-fridge for their perishable evidence....

In case you're thinking to yourself, "I thought it was legal in the Netherlands" here are a few archived articles you might find interesting...

Netherlands Drug Policy (Wikipedia)

Dutch Cannabis Law Challenged (BBC 2006)

Marajuana Myths and Facts (drugpolicy.org)

Presidential Love Child

It seems it's not just teenagers like Jamie Lynn Spears who are having unprotected sex these days. Presidential hopeful John Edwards has a love child of his own on the way. The National Enquirer is reporting in their exclusive article that Edwards knocked up Rielle Hunter, a woman connected to a scandal reported months ago that he had been cheating on his cancer-stricken wife. Senator Edwards denied the affair then, as he is now with his denial that he fathered this child. And in a strange yet interesting twist, Edwards' former chief of staff and long-time friend, Andrew Young has stepped forward to claim that he is the father of the unborn child. Young is a married father of three who some are speculating has made the announcement in an attempt to cover-up Edwards' affair and perhaps save his scandal-ridden presidential campaign. Somebody get Maury on the line!

Disfunction Junction

It seems there's more trouble in the Spears family. Sixteen year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant! Looks like the gossip mags had the wrong sister. She apparently told her parents over Thanksgiving dinner, but let her big sis find out through the gossip mags like the rest of us.... What impact does JL's announcement have on the Spears family? Mom Lynne is postponing her parenting book indefinitely. Awe... come on Mom, we all want to know how NOT to raise children!

Another One Bites the Dust

The latest celeb coupling to go belly up is Pam Anderson and Rick Soloman. It lasted a little over 2 months. Not suprising...look at their track records (Tommy Lee and Kid Rock for her, Shannon Doherty and Paris Hilton for him). How long until a sex tape is "leaked"? Might as well max the publicity, right?

UPDATE: Pam has announced on her fan site that she and Rick are giving it another try. Hmmm. Maybe this time it will last....

That Didn't Take Long...

So, the news about Pam and Rick got me thinking....

Shoes Read: HELP ME

Not counting Britteny Spears' hours-long knot-tying with that kid no one cares about or remembers anymore, because let's face it, it really doesn't count, could this be a new record for shortest Hollywood Marriages? Let's see....

Drew Barrymore and Tom Greene: married five months. They made it through his battle with testicular cancer and her house fire but they couldn't make their marriage last.

Jennifer Lopez and Chris Jude: married four months. Chris Jude who?

Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage: married three and a half months. Must be his creepy obsession with her father became apparent after a few months.

Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman: married nine days. Oh yeah, they were married.

Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips: married eight days back in 1971. So it isn't just today's young Hollywood... Further proof...

Cher and Greg Allman: married nine days in 1975. We've all had rebound relationships, but Cher actually married her rebound guy three days after divorcing Sonny!

Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman: married 32 days in 1964. Apparently she couldn't take his "dutch ovens"-- gross!

Rudolph Valentino and Jean Acker: married just six hours way back in 1919 before they separated. Wow.

Sad, but true, a two-month Hollywood marriage is actually a long one! Still yearning for more celeb marriage gossip? Check out this list of celebs and other semi-famous people who've tied the knot repeatedly.

A Few Christmas Carol Facts

Quick. Name five Christmas Carols!

I bet you had at least one of these classic tunes in your list... White Christmas, Jingle Bells, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Silver Bells, Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, and You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch. So, what do these carols have in common? The folks over at Mental Floss say they were all written by Jewish songwriters. Interesting.

Did you know that Silent Night was originally written in German around 1816 and not translated into English until 1863?

Did you know the verses to Away in a Manger were written by multiple people all at different times?

Did you know there's a carol entitled, Christmas Shoes? In 2001, it became number one on the Billboard Charts...

Did you know Deck the Halls was Mozart's favorite song to play?

Did you know Little Drummer Boy was written in 1958?

So you think you know Christmas? Find out just how well you really do with these fun quizzes at FunTrivia.com.

Hoffy Friday!

Who's got the nasty nails??

Check out this disgusting picture from Perez Hilton. com! What is up with Ms. Britney Spears and her filthy hands? I can only imagine what her toenails look like. Think of all the time she spends barefoot in public restrooms...she's probably got a whole new species of fungus growing down there.

A Traffic Cop with Moves Like No Other

You know it's the holiday season in Providence, Rhode Island when Tony Lapore comes out of retirement to direct traffic. What's so interesting about a retired cop directing traffic you ask? Officer Lapore does it with flare.... Check it out...

TomKat Spice Things Up

It seems TomKat and their kitty, Suri have taken in two Spice Girls concerts in recent days. Apparently the rehearsals just weren't enough for Katie, who is "a big Spice fan."

Is it just me or does that seem a bit much? I mean I'm all for supporting your friends, but this borders on obsessive. What's next? Is Katie going to start calling Victoria, "Posh," phoning her entirely too often, and then showing up uninvited at her house asking her why she won't take her phone calls anymore?

In other celebrities doing weird things news...

Did you hear the one about Paris Hilton and the Umpa Loompa?

Generation whYne

MSN is reporting that "Generation Y" may be the most demanding employees yet. Gen Yers are employees under the age of 29. While this is a serious article, what made me laugh the most is seeing how out of touch Gen Yers are when it comes to the abilities of older generations.

Taken from the MSN article:

“We are a people that had cell phones in high school,” he says. “Of course we are going to expect to have the most up-to-date gadgets in order to compete in today’s sleepless digital market.”

Bailin agrees. “I think if other generations had such technologies as cell phones and BlackBerrys, they would work toward getting them financed through work as well.”

Wake up kids, we are the generations that invented the technology you grew up with! If it weren't for the Baby Boomers and Generation X, cell phones, the Internet, email, and the blackberry wouldn't exist. You really think we are incapable of using the technology we fostered??

Spoken like true virgins to the "real world," I might add. I loved my blackberry when I first got it from my employer. That is until I started getting emails at 2AM, during dinner, all hours on weekends, while I was on vacation... The idea of your employer paying for and giving you a cell phone, berry, etc. is cool (especially when you're the first of all your friends to have the newest gadget on the market) until you realize that you never, ever are away from the office. You may be sipping daiquiris on the beach three thousand miles away from the office and using your hard-earned vacation time, but having that little gadget means you'll still be expected to get back to the boss before his or her workday is over.

These kids are also whining about the debt they've gotten into. WAAA! Boo Hoo. We all have college debt. Deal with it.

And they say they have more experience than we ever did graduating college. Internships have been around since the dawn of society, so just because you were the gopher/copy girl/file clerk, and shadowed some middle management supervisor for a semester, doesn't give you any more of an advantage over those who graduated college before you. Christ, you were just the intern. Do you know how many interns have worked for me? Too many to count and they're all just remembered as "the intern." When clarification is needed, it's "the intern from the summer of (fill in the blank)." No employer likes an intern, your more work than your worth. We just hire you to help out your mom, dad, uncle, etc., who probably knows someone and as some sort of influence over something that's going to help out our company.

Lastly, because of the above stated reasons, they expect to be paid more. HA! You've got to earn your right to a big paycheck, kids. No college degree or internship will fully prepare you for what you'll learn on the job. I don't care where you went to school, how many interships you've had or what industry you're in, your early working years are what makes you who you'll be professionally. And that can only be earned through hard work, starting with an entry-level position with entry-level pay. So suck it up and stop your whining Generation Y!

Hoffy Friday!

The Office

Just in time for cold and flu season, CNN reports where the germs lurk in your office and how to fend them off. Read it because you know there's going to be at least one asshole this season who refuses to stay home when they're sick! And when that jerk finally does listen to everyone repeatedly telling them to go home, spray down their cubicle with Lysol and do this....

The Shining was such a chick flick!

You guys have probably seen this one before, but I ran across it again today and it always gives me a chuckle! Enjoy...

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of them all?

In response to Entertainment Weekly's recent list of the 50 Smartest People in Hollywood, the NY Daily News has come up with their own (much more fun) list...the 50 Dumbest People in Hollywood! LiLo topped out at #1 with Britney at #14?! Huh? Who else is in the top 10?

2. Kim Kardashian

3. Spencer Pratt

4. Jeff Kwatinetz

5. Shia LaBeouf

6. Heidi Montag

7. Jessica Simpson

8. Keifer Sutherland (dumber than Britney, really?)

9. Tori Spelling

10. Rumer Willis

The funniest part of this whole list is the fact that Paris Hilton doesn't make the list. At all. Have you heard that girl talk?

Nip Tuck

Plastic Surgery. We Americans are enthralled with it. Whether we get it ourselves (not that anyone would admit it) or just enjoy reading stories of celebs getting botched nose jobs or boob jobs, or speculating on who's gotten a face lift, plastic surgery is always a topic of gossip conversations. So, for your viewing and reading pleasure, here is a small list of some outrageous celeb and non-celeb plastic surgery stories....


The first is a non-celeb, but nonetheless interesting. This actual news story comes to us from Knoxville Tennessee where a woman craving a curvaceous derriere, now has a few buts about it...

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The second story is about 80's pop star turned Broadway babe, Debbie Gibson. Several bloggers are reporting that Gibson graces the cover of the newest Star Magazine a recent botched nose job. While I did not venture out to get the latest edition of the mag, I did try to search their site and found no reference to Gibson whatsoever. Be it as it may, the reports are out there along with some pretty obviously photoshoped photos. Here's a link to scandalous candice blog story, only because I found the comments to be amusing.

Next on the did she have a nose job list, Jennifer Aniston. City Rag blog reports that there is something different about her nose these days. Hmmmm..... The only other Aniston-nose-job stories I could find were from January 2007. And after looking at a recent picture, I really don't see it... maybe it's just me? But then again, we here these reports every couple years and Aniston only copped to having two.


Of course we can't talk about plastic surgery without mentioning a few infamous PS adicts...

Joycelyn Wilenstein, AKA Cat Woman, is a NYC socialite who married international art dealer and billionare, Alic Wilenstein. Ledgend or rumor has it that after her husband's repeated affairs and seeing he had more affection for big game cats than he had for her, she began to transform herself into one of his beloved cats. Well, she does look cat-like, but dude!

Everyone knows the stories surrounding Michael Jackson's repeated and denied plastic surgeries, but I still had to post his pic here just to remind everyon of just how scary he looks these days....

And then there's Joan Rivers, who by comparison, looks pretty good. But look closely, her skin is pulled tighter than leggings on a fat chick.

And just in case you haven't had enough yet, check this out. Or this.