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Photographed for the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in tiny bra-and-panty-like bikinis, snowboarder Hannah Teter looks kind of like a deer, a hot deer, caught in headlights. In one photo she appears to be on the verge of masturbating. Teter said she had a blast on the photo shoot, and even her brother was able [...]
This morning my husband and I had a little extra time, so we decided to go to our favorite breakfast place. The one with faux sausage and organic eggnog lattes. They were closed. So we went to a down-home Southern cooking kind of place instead. We live in the South. The restaurant was nestled in a [...]
Grunge fashion, the iconic 90s style that was ultimately co-opted by flannel shirts and pre-ripped jeans at the Gap and modeled by Kate Moss, is on the rise again. What always appealed to me about grunge fashion was its inherent laziness. Ill-fitting clothes from Goodwill became cool. The best grunge outfit could be put together [...]
We thought no ice skating drama could ever, ever top the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding story. Ever. Since any other instance of ice skating drama is now seemingly unfit for media attention, I’ve been a little disappointed. Until I saw this piece aired by NBC about Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko. I’m absolutely stunned. I had [...]
A few nights ago I asked my ex-Marine husband how women dealt with menstruation in a makeshift camp in the middle of the desert. He didn’t really know, but he thought they must travel stocked with tampons. He went on to inform me that some argue menstruation is reason enough to not allow women into [...]
Thank you, PBS. You always come through for the kids, whether it was teaching us to love books with “Reading Rainbow” or telling us how to avoid being kidnapped with “Stranger Danger.” PBS’s newest campaign is “Don’t Buy It.” They want kids to start looking critically at the ways advertisers speak to them, inviting them to [...]
I’m sure many of you have seen the Dodge Charger Commercial that aired during the Superbowl. “Man’s Last Stand” was the premise. Men are tired, it seems, of living hollow and meaningless lives with their spouses. They continually allow themselves to be emasculated by their wives, doing things like watching vampire TV shows and carrying [...]
I was feeling like I needed a good punishing today, so I took a Cosmo quiz online – the most offensive-sounding one I could find. “What Kind of Female Are You” was the title. First of all, it should be “woman,” not “female.” Referring to a woman as a “female” conjures images of rap videos [...]
I was driving forty minutes to campus last night and fiddling with the radio. The CD player is broken and there’s no mp3 or satellite radio hooked up, so it was radio or nothing. Panicky and distracted, I remembered reading earlier on cracked.com that listening to music can help calm down people with brain issues, [...]
A town of around 13,000 that claims an 81% rate of Christianity, the London suburb of Upminster has been dubbed “England’s Sexiest Place” by Lovehoney UK. Since Upminsterites spend an average of almost eight times as much as other Brits on sex-related products, are all the heathens just wildly hedonistic – or are regular people [...]