Recently, Jon Stewart, host of The Comedy Network’s “The Daily Show,” has been launching hilarious barbs at CNBC for faulty financial reporting. Coming under particularly heavy fire were Jim Cramer, the rambunctious host of “Mad Money,” who has offered some blatantly bad advice, and Rick Santelli, who, in a recent video explosion, called unfortunate mortgage-holders […]
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It’s Rihanna’s business
Super-ultra-pop-star Rihanna is a lot of things: model, former beauty queen, Barbadian youth cultural ambassador (!), frequent Billboard presence, wackadoo fashion icon, and a scant “score-and-one” years old. After an alleged argument that ended in alleged violence with boyfriend-singer Chris Brown a few weeks ago, however, it seems the media would like to cram a […]
Exploiting the First Girlz
Since 2007, the company that brought us Beanie Babies has been steadily feeding the glutted toy market a line of new dolls, the Girlz. Not surprisingly, more than a few of Ty’s Girlz bear passing resemblances to famous femmes. The red-headed Lucky Lindsay is as dead a ringer for La Lohan as you can get […]
Babies bag big bucks
What with her three adopted children, recent birthing of twins, and husband Brad’s increasingly haggard mug, the rumors that Angelina Jolie is pregnant again have compounded an already drama-riffic life. Everyone is sick of hearing about this lippy femme and her do-gooding and her cat-fighting and her award-winning and her baby-making, but no one can […]
Disney’s tragic kingdom
The Disney corporation is a piss-poor parent. While it may be responsible for some of the finest keep-your-kids-busy-for-an-hour films ever made, it has done a reprehensible job of raising up its own young stars. If any real-life parents had Disney’s track record, social services would be on their asses before you could holler “High School […]
Twilight’s neurotic teens
Can we take a second to talk about the newest lit-to-film fad corrupting our children? Enough with the darling wizards in plaid robes; we’re talking about vampires now. Sexy, sexy vampires. If you haven’t heard about Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga by now, you obviously have no daughters/wives/friends. The story of Bella Swan, a rather underwhelming […]
Paris in space
News flash, kids: Paris Hilton is a space cadet. The real kind. That goes into space. When the first ragingly commercial shuttle craft, the Virgin (HA!) Enterprise, takes off next year, our very own Witless Wonder will be on it. True, she may be $200,000 US poorer for the experience. And true, she may have […]
Britney one more time
Can we give credit where credit is, if not due, then at least feasible? Britney Spears’ recent single, “Womanizer,” has jumped from #96 to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Given that a few months ago we might have given her back-pats just for putting on pants, and since no other song has ever made […]
O.J.’s final eff up
O.J. Simpson is guilty again!! Or for the first time, depending on which way your 1994 vote swung. After successfully evading all kinds of prison for the alleged murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, O.J. is now headed to the slammer for reclaiming some of his old football junk from […]
Little Ms. Cobain celebrates a birthday
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of the late Kurt Cobain, recently decided to throw herself a “Suicidal Sixteen” birthday party. Now look, I’m all for themed parties, and if any other teenage girl planned this macabre festivus, I suppose we’d just shake our heads and mutter something about kids today before returning to our “Murder She […]
