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“Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
– Thomas Edison
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If you’re Paris Hilton, nothing quite adds to your red carpet glamor like wispy hair extensions, a silvery handbag, and a shlumpy boyfriend with sleeve tats. Yeah, that’s a good look. That’s how the two appeared last night at the premiere of the new James Bond film “Quantum of Solace.”
For Benji Madden’s part, you’d think he’d say, “Hey, my girlfriend is wearing a ball gown, maybe I oughta ditch the black jeans, gothy tee and kicks for something a little more upscale,” but no. Having to exhibit ones hideous tattoos apparently trumps any sense of decorum or appropriateness, dude.
At least they look happy.
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in bad form, bad hair, brains, chexy's fashion report, crap, girls will be girls, hideousness, tattoos, whateverSomeday, October 22nd will be a national holiday. The Solomon of our time, Judge Judy, is 66.
I absolutely love this righteous bitch, and it’s one of my guilty pleasures to watch her eviscerate the imbeciles who stand before her bench, reducing their stupidity with her implacable wisdom, insisting that people take responsibility for their actions.
Judy’s most recent 4-year contract was worth $100 million and ends in 2009. She’s extended through 2012, but details of the new contract were not disclosed. After Oprah, she’s the highest paid woman on TV.
Her boat is appropriately called “Her Honor.”
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in birthdays, brains, gorgeousness, legends, little known facts, money, oprah, reality tv, righteousness, stuff I like, the jewsAfter watching the mo-rons cheering McCain’s speech, I’m convinced it’s plain stupidity that causes many to vote Republican, and now statistics bear me out.
I’m thinking today about the late Tim Russert, who said that New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada will be key states in 2008 and that if Dems can win three of them, then Ohio and Florida wouldn’t matter. This made me wonder what average IQs were in those states, and how it compared with how they voted.
I found this handy chart to measure dimwittedness, income, and the last presidential election, so I could see what the chances are of winning key states Russert mentioned.
The average American IQ is 98. Where intelligence was higher, more voted for Kerry, and the dumber states voted for Bushie. Florida and New Mexico are among the dumbest, and they went to Bush. Colorado and Arizona did too. Uh-oh.
This proves my contention that most of the people voting Republican are generally too dumb to understand that their candidates are the reason they’re doing so badly — outside of their low intelligence. Where’s God when you need him?
| IQ and states | Income/ person | 2004 vote |
| (alphabetically by IQ) | in 2003* | Rep-Dem |
| 104 IQ | $34,702 | |
| 34,702 | Kerry | |
| 103 IQ | 33,351 | |
| 29,340 | Kerry | |
| 39,815 | Kerry | |
| 30,898 | Kerry | |
| 102 IQ | 31,753 | |
| 34,238 | Bush | |
| 43,173 | Kerry | |
| 33,590 | Kerry | |
| 29,043 | Bush | |
| 29,935 | Bush | |
| 34,443 | Kerry | |
| 25,920 | Bush | |
| 30,758 | Bush | |
| 29,204 | Bush | |
| 26,656 | Bush | |
| 30,740 | Kerry | |
| 33,332 | Kerry | |
| 101 IQ | 31,737 | |
| Alaska | 33,568 | Bush |
| Maryland | 37,331 | Kerry |
| Michigan | 30,439 | Kerry |
| Missouri | 28,252 | Bush |
| New York | 36,574 | Kerry |
| Ohio | 29,944 | Bush |
| Utah | 24,977 | Bush |
| Wyoming | 32,808 | Bush |
| 100 IQ | 30,745 | |
| Arizona | 26,838 | Bush |
| California | 33,749 | Kerry |
| Idaho | 25,811 | Bush |
| Maine | 28,831 | Kerry |
| Nevada | 31,266 | Bush |
| New Jersey | 40,427 | Kerry |
| Pennsylvania | 31,998 | Kerry |
| Rhode Island | 31,996 | Kerry |
| South Dakota | 29,234 | Bush |
| Virginia | 33,671 | Bush |
| West Virginia | 24,379 | Bush |
| 99 IQ | 30,835 | |
| Delaware | 32,810 | Kerry |
| Hawaii | 30,913 | Kerry |
| Indiana | 28,783 | Bush |
| 98 IQ | 27,368 | |
| Florida | 30,446 | Bush |
| Arkansas | 24,289 | Bush |
| 97 IQ | 27,599 | |
| Alabama | 26,338 | Bush |
| Georgia | 29,442 | Bush |
| Kentucky | 26,252 | Bush |
| Louisiana | 26,100 | Bush |
| North Carolina | 28,235 | Bush |
| Tennessee | 28,455 | Bush |
| Texas | 28,372 | Bush |
| 96 IQ | 25,541 | |
| New Mexico | 25,541 | Bush |
| 95 IQ | 48,342 | |
| District of Columbia | 48,342 | Kerry |
| 94 IQ | 24,790 | |
| Mississippi | 23,448 | Bush |
| South Carolina | 26,132 | Bush |
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Further evidence that John McCain is one Tylenol away from the nursing home, the Nazi-esque Republican candidate, when asked about Russia invading Georgia, told reporters, “In the 21st Century, nations don’t invade other nations.” Apparently, McCainus’ brain has deteriorated so rapidly, he has no recall of a crazy little thing called “Iraq.”
Just after the taping, a McCain aide blamed the bit of idiocy on confusion and a full Depend, saying that John had also missed his nap.
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in bad hair, brains, crap, maniacs, morons, politics, power, press, terror, uh-oh, whatever, world affairs, wrecksStarbucks, which has seen its stock price halved in the last year, has been hurt by people cutting corners to pay higher gas and food prices. As a result, many unwitting souls have discovered that coffee is made simply by heating water and pouring it on ground coffee. Astounding!
Amazingly, cups with lids are also sold widely in stores.
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One-hundred-twenty-five years ago today, animation pioneer Max Fleischer was born in Krakow. Take a look at this swell 9-minute docu about the man responsible for Betty Boop and the first Superman cartoons.
Extra!! Cartoon Matinee Today! (1933)
Bonus!! Superman cartoon today! (1941)
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in 1930, animation, birthdays, brains, chexy's saturday matinee, cinema, little known facts, the jews, wondersA puffy Ted Kennedy, fresh from brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor, was followed by his niece, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, to the Senate chamber where he cast a vote to help pass a Medicare bill.
July 18th marks the 39th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who died when the senator’s Oldsmobile Delmont 88 plunged off Dike Bridge at Chappaquiddick, a small island near Martha’s Vineyard.
Caroline is serving on Obama’s Vice Presidential Search Committee. Her brother, John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette died July 16, 1999 when his plane crashed into the Atlantic on the way to Martha’s Vineyard for his cousin’s wedding.
Ted settled with the Kopechne family for a reported $90,000, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence. JFK Jr.’s estate settled with the Bessette family for a reported $15,000,000.
Ted’s ex wife, Joan, was found on a Boston street in 2005, alive. She’d been drinking vanilla extract and mouthwash. She’s been under court-ordered and guardian supervision, kinda like Britney.
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in bad hair, brains, britney, chaos, disasters, drugs, gone, horror, hot messes, kennedys, last hurrahs, legends, little known facts, lookalikes, mayhem, memorials, plastic surgery, politics, wrecksMy favorite crossword source, The New York Times, is reporting this morning that just 3 short weeks since the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on lethal injections, at least 14 execution dates have been set in six states for the summer killing season. And I thought the Saturday crossword was murder!
Of course, Texas leads the way — their death row is now a “compound,” says the paper. The great irony in all this, well, one of them anyway, is that I’ve heard it’s actually more expensive to kill an inmate than to keep him alive. Sounds like a bad relationship.
Nationwide, America is hosting almost 3,300 people on death row. According to Will Shortz, the charming editor of the NY Times Crossword, as many as 50 million people solve crosswords in America. I say, let’s kill more time solving puzzles, and spend less time killing.
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"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
--Jimmy Buffett
