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In last night’s penultimate episode of the season, we saw all the problems of the season converge in a screwball comedy of manners that sank this season even deeper into the mire. Admittance time: I steered you guys wrong . I urged everyone so hard to watch this show, because last season was so good, and now this year has been… such a manic, overstuffed bust. Still an entertaining show, yes. But daaangerously teetering on the brink of ridiculous. What happened last night? Ohhh what didn’t happen last night? I don’t even know how to write about it, so let’s just do a list. Ben came home from their Mexican arm-chopping adventure and is back in love with his dad. Amanda Seyfried showed everyone a trailer for Letters to Juliet as a means to announce that she is moving away. Nicki showed up to family backyard dinner in Margene-style hoochie wear, shocking everyone and making us wish that she’d get her own spin-off. Following Nicki’s exploits as she remakes her life on her own could be fascinating and stirring in a way this show has not been more a lot of this season. Bill found out that Margene is planning to marry Serbian Kevin Sorbo, and was mad and didn’t want it to happen, but later wanted it to happen, but was still mad. Barb and Bill confronted Sissy Spacek about her naughty wheelings and dealings, she countered by yelling at them and calling the casino a “fucking pup-tent.” (Great line. She is great.) Later on Sissy found out that there is badass polygamy going on in the Henrickson household, and she’s going to war. Nicki found out, via a Barb tongue slip, that Joey killed her dad. She raged at Bill, ran to the compound and took Wanda away from creepy JJ. Creepy JJ caught Mary Kay Place snooping in the files, she found out that Roman was censuring him for some reason, he chloroformed her. Because he walks around with chloroform on a cloth, always? Barba and her Injun Interest hugged… intensely. Margene is worried that she is going to be attracted to Serbian Antonio Sabato Jr., and so is Bill. To prove his manliness, Bill challenged him to an intense game of tether ball. Everyone hates each other now. The women of Utah especially hate Barb, because she babbled something about put-upon Utah women and all their pill-popping at a big Ladies Meeting. Bill found out, got mad. Bill and family had to do a TV interview to prove that they are pro Family Values (no one knew they were such big Korn fans!). Amanda Seyfried showed up with a big sack of money with the words Dear John scrawled on it and was all “Heyyyy, what’d I miss?” Tini is played by Selena Gomez now. Nicki went to the Compound to try to rescue Alby, who was listening to Nancy Sinatra and weeping (creepy, interesting, more of that kind of stuff, please!). He seemed maybe about to accept her love and leave that awful place, but then the ghost of Roman convinced him to stay and he yelled at Nicki. She went home and told Bill that she wanted love, real love, and he didn’t know what to do with that. Other things happened? There were definitely good moments — anything with Sissy, Nicki’s sad revolution — but on the whole the episode felt like it was laid out in meter, with a rhythm of Problem Happens, Problem Is Discovered, People Get Mad repeated over and over again. I’m not really sure why the writers decided to make this season as crowded as they did, but it’s just too much . The whole conceit of the show is already a big pill to swallow and it just doesn’t need this much jazzing up. I read Under the Banner of Heaven this weekend, and I wonder if that maybe colored how I watched last night’s episode. In light of that book, Bill really is not much more than a hateful monster, his family a strange and cruel institution that has ties to a really insidious and violent history. Sure I knew that Mormons Are Weird before reading the book, but I didn’t quite understand to what depths the whole church is an obfuscating cult bent on world domination. I appreciate attempts to humanize people associated with such a nasty thing, and that dynamic made this show a really interesting one last season, but trying to infuse more drama on top of the inherent craziness just comes across a bit greedy, doesn’t it? Sorry to be a downer this week, y’all. Hopefully next week we’ll get some satisfying resolutions and some hope for a more reasonable fifth season. But right now I’m just… Tether ball. Ohhh tether ball.
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Oh last night was a corker. The girls snowboarded and Julia Mancuso continued her silver rush, but mostly men twirled around on ice and we all clapped and swooned. Now that it’s over, we’re worried. Was it the best event? Because male figure skating is inherently the most ridiculous sport at the games — ohhh gender norms blahblah be damned, it’s true — it always has the potential to be resoundingly silly, and thus fun. But most years we don’t have huge American competitors and it’s all just a bunch of weirdo Russkies and our eyes do not stay glued for long. But this year! We had Lysacek and his glorious counterpart Johnny Weir , who probably wasn’t going to medal but darned if he didn’t make a good case for one last night, and plus all these surprisingly attractive competitors from elsewhere. It was a big, deep field with American favorites and storied rivalries. Put that together with Black Swan costumes and Cypress Hill songs and you’ve got an Olympic event for the ages. And now it’s done. 🙁 This is the first Olympics in a long while where the announcers haven’t spent a lopsided amount of time plugging the women’s skate during the men’s, and that’s mostly because there aren’t any American front runners among the ladies, and no big personalities from anywhere else, really. So for the drama this Olympic go-around, the men had it. Had, past tense. And we still have a whole week of competition left! What’re we going to do? Well, we’re going to gawp, horrified, at incestuous ice dancers . Yes, brother/sister ice dancing teams. That really puts the deaky in freaky. If only ice dancing wasn’t so stultifyingly boring. And sure there’s still some Alpine skiing left and Apolo Ohno has more dizzy circles to make, but this year the graceful guys of the lady-owned ice seemed to sparkle the brightest, and with the grand story sung to a close last night — the Dark Lord of America won, causing both joy and disappointment — the Olympic flame has flickered and waned, just a bit.
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Is the Most Interesting Event at the Olympics Already Over?
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Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision that making little clothes for little people is harder. The delusion that we care. The vision that little girls are pure. The delusion of tarting up a bunch of children. Last night’s Project Runway was a bit like smearing lipstick on a second grader or one of those shows where little JonBenet Ramseys twirl around in princess dresses trying to impress judges or like Jodi Foster in Taxi Driver but with better hair and worse clothing. It was like one of those. Pick a simile. The designers had to make an outfit for little girls between the ages of 5 and 8. They were each given a mini model and they were in turns cute, annoying, shy, loud, still, and squirmy. And because they needed something to keep the mature coat hangers busy, they were then given a surprise second look (!!!) for their big girl models. Fun. Well, not really because this challenge is one of the: Things We Hate Full-Tilt Lifetime Boogie : Really, a mommy and me challenge? This is ovary manipulation of the highest degree. This challenge was created so that the Midwestern moms targeted by the network could coo and aww and imagine that they were up there getting designed for by a bunch of hacks on a reality television program. These girls even melted Nina Garcia Fashion Director of Marie Claire Magazine. She actually smiled and it wasn’t her usual wince/grimace when she’s trying to not look like a huge bitch. It was a beaming that came directly from her uterus and snaked up her body pushing up the corners of her mouth. It was a horrible manipulation. Maya : What the fuck is going on with Maya. She was the only remaining designer not to show at the final runway show in Bryant Park last week, so we thought that meant she was going home for sure this week. No dice. Also, she was barely on this episode. Are they just trying to vanish her like it’s 1984 or something? Did she talk trash about Heidi and they’re going to erase her from the planet? And now we know she’s not in the final. How many weeks are we going to have to go carrying her bangs around like a backpack full of bricks? Listening to the Clients : Especially if they are little girls. Never do this. Ever. How many times do we have to teach this lesson? There are only four people you have to please and they never stand on the runway. They sit next to it in directors chairs stained with fake tanning solution and back sweat. Don’t make something for the girls, make something for the judges—every time! Seth Aaron Is Smart : Fucking asshole Seth Aaron. He has a daughter (how, how did that happen?!) so he knows what they like and made a purse, which his mini-model loved and made NGFDMCM’s lady parts twitch. We fucking hate him, but he is actually pretty good. His pair of designs looked like Gwen Stefani and her daughter, and that is a high compliment. He is going to do just enough right to get to the finals, isn’t he? God, he is Wendy Pepper with a penis. The Asshole Straight Guy : Nearly every season has had one, and Jeffrey Sebelia even won a season! You know the type, they are straight, abrasive, usually punk-rockish, and talk about their love of women and how it makes they design clothes for them, and it just pisses the rest of us off. This year we have two. Why can’t Seth Aaron Jingleheimer Schmidt and Logan Jesse. Why can’t we just have a bunch of girls and kooky gays? Straight guys have everything, just leave this for the girls and the gays! Bad Parenting : Don’t these girls have mothers? Where were they? They were just letting their impressionable young tots hang around with a bunch of absent-minded designers who want to exploit them for a win and a bunch of skinny models using them as props while teaching them sexy walks and the easiest way to barf up a baloney sandwich? Maybe these are all the kids of the producers and crew and they just all happen to have kids of about the same age, so they were really there behind the scenes. Anyway, I fear for these poor tykes. Things We Love Tim Gunn ‘s Peek : Every week, right after Tim hurries all the designers and their breathing mannequins out of the room for the runway show, he always opens the door to the workroom, peeks his head in, and looks around to make sure no one is in there. It’s like Tim is expecting to catch a stray designer hiding in the corner under a table quickly sewing the hem of a dress with an army of fairy helpers guiding the needle and thread. It’s so cute. And what if there was one? Would Grampa Gunn wing a Werther’s Original from his pocket and hit them in the head and tell them and their little fairies it’s time to go? Yellow : Both the ill-fated Jonathan and supremely ill-fated Maya used yellow this week. It was very cool. Why don’t we have more yellow clothing? Why don’t I have more yellow clothing? This needs to be corrected. Jay’s Outfit : Not the purple ruffley thing he made that made his 6-year-old look like a contestant on The Littlest Hooker , the one he wore while shopping at mood. It was a Kelly green sweater and shorts with some sort of printed sailboat pattern and probably topsiders (though we didn’t see the shoes closely). It was the most inappropriate getup we ever did see. He looked like he was dressed for a gay clam dig on Nantucket, but he was shopping in a fabric store in New York. It was so out of place it was amazing. The Boys : Last season the boys sucked and we thought it was some supreme Lifetime conspiracy to get all ladies to the end, which they did. Well, this year is the total opposite and the boys are kicking ass. Even if two of them are the horrible straight guys, we’re glad to have some penis power back in this competition. Maybe they’ve been taking the free lady vitamins that Lifetime put in their Atlas apartments and are somehow dodging the testosterone sensors at Parsons. Michael Kors Hates Kids : Of course he does, and it makes us love him even more. Lifetime Movies : God, they all suck. This week we had to watch commercials about Will Truman as a conman pretending to be a straight Rockefeller and marrying some lady so he could kidnap their kid. Also, Jill Scott is trying to win an Emmy for doing the TV version of Precious: A Television Drama Based on the Movie Precious Based on the Book by a Woman Who Wouldn’t Sell the Rights Unless Her Name was in the Title . They are so horrible, but we don’t want them to die. They’re like Sarah Jessica Parker’s little mole thingy. Her face isn’t be the same without it, and there is one fewer thing to pick on in the world. We miss that mole. “Bravo” : When congratulating a designer on a job well done, NGFDMCM said, “Bravo.” No, it’s Lifetime. Ha! That joke will never get old. In the end, Annoying Straight Man #1 took home the top prize for his little striped hoodie with watermelon pockets and a gorgeous black and white coat with a fucked-upedly fantastic collar that looked a bit like a fashion straight jacket for a couture S/M editorial shoot. The judges finally picked right and put Jay’s Barney purple tartlet creation and Jesse’s French-inspired preciousness in grey and red in the top as well. It was Tear up Weepy Janeane who was finally sent home for her boring blob of red and some other bullshit that she bought off etsy the night before and just passed off as her own. Bye-bye, dead weight, can’t you take Maya with you on your way out? Also horrible was Emilio’s Pepto Bismol poured in a shot glass and a champagne flute, Ben’s study in wilted lilacs, and Jonathan’s tissue explosion that he made with spare rolls from the Charmin Toilet off of the Brother Sewing Room. At least the last one had some yellow. Amy’s crazy “petal” pants—which looked like the three-eyed fish from The Simpsons —weren’t that bad. OK, yeah, they were. The petals weren’t finished and the colors were garish and the little girl looked like an orphan digging for trash in a alleyway right before Joseph Bologna shows up in a limo with a wonderful side part and puts her and four other girls in a band and lets them live in his mansion ( Rags to Riches , anyone?). Still, if Amy had made those petals in black, grey, and red and finished them, NGFDMCM and her estrogen-filled Easy-Bake Bun in the Oven would have climbed up onto the runway, thrown the kid out of the way and snatched them off the model’s body. But for Jonathan’s spot on Queen Tangerine impersonation, Suzanne Sugarbaker’s annoyance with little girls, and some other travesties, you have to go watch the videos. Don’t worry, we’ll babysit while you’re gone. We promise not to take LSD and put your baby in the microwave. Kors of the Matter Description : Jonathan finally show a little bit of personality with his funny German accent and his amazing Michael Kors impersonation. Vision : “Now is ze time on Schprockets ven vee make fun of Michael Kors.” Delusion : Sorry, kiddo, this isn’t as classic as Santino Rice doing Tim Gunn. Nice try. What Would Nina Say : “You know, my daughter does the most amazing impersonation of André Leon Talley eating Oreos.” Dramometer : 4 Under the Gunn Description : Tim goes to visit Amy, who is cutting out a bunch of frayed fabric to make some insane creation. Vision : Tim thinks this could be inspired, or clown clothes. Delusion : Oh, Gramps, the only thing that reeks more of clown clothes is the laundry room at Cirque du Soleil. What Would Nina Say : “If those pants were my child, I would have a late-term abortion.” Dramometer : 3 Suzanne’s Beauties Description : Our beloved Suzanne Sugarbaker is allergic to three things: subtlety, silence, and small children. Watch him try to deal with all three as the workroom is taken over by a bunch of howling banshees. Vision : This was exactly the producer’s vision of this challenge. Delusion : They are lucky that this is as messy as things got. We fully expected crying, and were sorely disappointed. What Would Nina Say : “Suzanne, you can babysit for me anytime.” Dramometer : 6 Runway Arrogance Description : Seth Aaron watches his design tromp and twirl its way to victory. Vision : This is what a girl wants, want a girl needs… Delusion : it makes us happy, but it won’t set us free of Seth Aaron. What Would Nina Say : “I could just eat you up! Yes I could!” Dramometer : 2 Caitlin the Hero Description : We do not like children any more than Michael Kors, but Amy’s model Caitlin is not afraid of bitchy old gay men who sell their wares at Marshalls. Oh hell no. She sticks up for her outfit right to Queen Tangerine’s face, and he gives her the scowl of disapproval. Vision : “I don’t care what you say old man, I like it!” Delusion : That a child would behave any other way. What Would Nina Say : See for yourself! Dramometer : 8
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‘Y’all haven’t heard her sound like this in a long time,’ producer says of Jackson’s tune for the ‘Why Did I Get Married Too?’ soundtrack. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Shaheem Reid Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri Photo: Jim Spellman/ WireImage Jermaine Dupri recently told MTV News he had produced a new Janet Jackson song for the upcoming Tyler Perry film in which the singer also stars, “Why Did I Get Married Too?” According to the So So Def boss, the track is slated to be the first single from the movie’s soundtrack — the film is scheduled to arrive in theaters April 2. “I watched the movie with [Jackson and Perry] and it’s incredible,” Dupri said. “I’m not married but married people go through what I seen in this movie. I think Tyler hit it on the head again. But the song is perfect for the movie and it’s a good record.” The producer was tight-lipped about the track, only revealing that the title was “Nothing.” He promised, however, that the song will showcase a Jackson that fans haven’t seen in a while. “I can say this — y’all haven’t heard her sound like this in a long time,” he teased. Jackson is currently working on her next album, one that Rodney Jerkins told MTV News would be more emotional that her past efforts. “You gotta understand, she lost her brother,” Jerkins said. “She was in a relationship for seven years [with Jermaine Dupri] that’s over now. There’s things that she told me that I didn’t even realize. You know, certain [things] like self-esteem that I didn’t even realize that she dealt with for years that, you know. … She’s working on her book and she’ll deal with that in her book, but also in songs, certain songs we’re dealing with that head on. And sometimes it can be a touchy subject for us to even go into, and I kinda had to persuade her, ‘Let’s just go, let’s talk about that.’ And she’s been doing it, and she’s a pro about it.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Why Did I Get Married Too?” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Artists Jermaine Dupri Janet Jackson
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Posted by: BlogXilla Heidi Montag’s plastic surgery was a complete success in my book. Not that I think she needed it, because I think God got her right the first time he made her, but that’s neither here nor there. As I previously reported to you Heidi Montag wants to make her boobs bigger , but why? Aren’t they big enough? FOR MORE PICTURES OF HEIDI MONTAG, CLICK HERE Do You Like Heidi Montag’s New Body? ( polls ) Continue reading
Filed under: Jersey Shore Another “Jersey Shore” star is trying to cash on her nickname — this time it’s Snooki … and it appears she has her sights set on a BOOK!The Snookster — aka Nicole Polizzi — has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to … Permalink
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Yesterday afternoon at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, a suspect was detained on a capital murder charge after a shooting that left three dead and three injured: Dr. Amy Bishop . The emerging portrait of her is typically sad and average. Our J-School Embed, Gawker contributor Hunter Walker, did some digging around, and found the following on Dr. Amy Bishop : Bishop’s a Harvard-educated biologist who’s an assistant professor at UAH. The three dead victims were all working in the Biology department, including the department’s chairman. Via the New York Times , Bishop’s denial of tenure is what supposedly triggered her violent rampage : “She began to talk about her problems getting tenure in a very forceful and animated way, saying it was unfair,” the associate said, referring to a conversation in which she blamed specific colleagues for her problems. “She seemed to be one of these persons who was just very open with her feelings,” he said. “A very smart, intense person who had a variety of opinions on issues.” Her profile on the university’s site shows that she specialized in “Molecular Biology of Oxidative Stress, Neurobiology, Neuroengineering, and Induced Adaptive Resistance.” Her most notable achievement in her field was the invention of InQ, a “cell growth incubator,” which was assisted by her husband, Jim Anderson. She was profiled by the Huntsville Times in 2006, to whom she boasted that her colleagues think the InQ will “change the face of tissue culture.” Whether or not it did is far less notable than the fact, that, as the teacher of “Anatomy and Physiology,” she wasn’t necessarily notable. Walker checked out her Rate My Professors profile, and found the following: RateMyProfessors.com has 34 reviews of Bishop’s class dating back to April, 2004. On a scale of one to five, Bishop received ratings of 2.3 for “average easiness,” 3.7 for “average helpfulness,” 3.4 for “average clarity,” and a “hotness total” of 0. Her “overall quality” was a 3.6. None of the postings describe Bishop as the kind of angry or mean person from whom we might have expected some sort of violent outburst. Several of the online reviews of her class say Bishop was “fair,” however not all of her students seem to have enjoyed her class. Multiple reviewers described Bishop as “brilliant” a smart teacher, who was eager to help out with extra study sessions, and taught an excellent class. There are also several reviews indicating that she is a “boring” teacher who “reads straight from the book” and “highlight[s] the book word for word.” Even more, Walker notes that she might have been a “fish out of water” on the UAH campus given her Ivy-League roots and her fairly liberal ideologies. More from her students: After classes ended last spring, a RateMyProfessors.com user said Bishop “is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class.” In 2008, someone described her on the site by saying: “she’s a liberal from ‘Hahvahd’ and let’s you know exactly how she feels about particular subjects.” Finally, Walker found that she was a member of the “Clergy Letter Project,” which is devoted to connecting scientists with clergy members who “have questions about the science associated with all aspects of evolution.” For what it’s worth, Walker also recorded her outgoing voicemail message . Meanwhile, over at Media Elites, Steve Huff found that right-wing groups have already jumped on Bishop and her husband—who has also been detained, but not charged—and are using political views as put on display by Rate My Professors to fuel their rhetoric. Huff notes: Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, pointed this RateMyProfessors comment out and it was immediately picked up by other historically conservative bloggers. Because you know all the comments on “Rate My Professor” are true and valid reflections of a teacher’s personality, style and ability to do their job and not student perceptions and biases, right? Huff also dug up a complaint to the FTC by Bishop’s husband, which ends: “By the people … for the people …” not “Buy the people … for the Corporations …” Does a liberal ideology, an Ivy League education, and a husband who writes letters to the FTC make a rage-prone shooter? Not necessarily, but as we’ve learned, ideological extremities almost always definitely do. The extent of Bishop’s politics, ideas behind them, and the lifestyle to which Bishop and her husband inhibited them have yet to be fully fleshed out, but one thing—as each instance of breaking violence of this stripe happens proves without fail—is for sure: the pictures that can come together from aggregated information is hitting people faster and is colored deeper than each time before it, every time, as are the assumptions and projections they yield.
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University of Alabama-Huntsville Shooting Suspect Dr. Amy Bishop: A Politicized Composite Emerges
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Yesterday afternoon at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, a suspect was detained on a capital murder charge after a shooting that left three dead and three injured: Dr. Amy Bishop . The emerging portrait of her is typically sad and average. Our J-School Embed, Gawker contributor Hunter Walker, did some digging around, and found the following on Dr. Amy Bishop : Bishop’s a Harvard-educated biologist who’s an assistant professor at UAH. The three dead victims were all working in the Biology department, including the department’s chairman. Via the New York Times , Bishop’s denial of tenure is what supposedly triggered her violent rampage : “She began to talk about her problems getting tenure in a very forceful and animated way, saying it was unfair,” the associate said, referring to a conversation in which she blamed specific colleagues for her problems. “She seemed to be one of these persons who was just very open with her feelings,” he said. “A very smart, intense person who had a variety of opinions on issues.” Her profile on the university’s site shows that she specialized in “Molecular Biology of Oxidative Stress, Neurobiology, Neuroengineering, and Induced Adaptive Resistance.” Her most notable achievement in her field was the invention of InQ, a “cell growth incubator,” which was assisted by her husband, Jim Anderson. She was profiled by the Huntsville Times in 2006, to whom she boasted that her colleagues think the InQ will “change the face of tissue culture.” Whether or not it did is far less notable than the fact, that, as the teacher of “Anatomy and Physiology,” she wasn’t necessarily notable. Walker checked out her Rate My Professors profile, and found the following: RateMyProfessors.com has 34 reviews of Bishop’s class dating back to April, 2004. On a scale of one to five, Bishop received ratings of 2.3 for “average easiness,” 3.7 for “average helpfulness,” 3.4 for “average clarity,” and a “hotness total” of 0. Her “overall quality” was a 3.6. None of the postings describe Bishop as the kind of angry or mean person from whom we might have expected some sort of violent outburst. Several of the online reviews of her class say Bishop was “fair,” however not all of her students seem to have enjoyed her class. Multiple reviewers described Bishop as “brilliant” a smart teacher, who was eager to help out with extra study sessions, and taught an excellent class. There are also several reviews indicating that she is a “boring” teacher who “reads straight from the book” and “highlight[s] the book word for word.” Even more, Walker notes that she might have been a “fish out of water” on the UAH campus given her Ivy-League roots and her fairly liberal ideologies. More from her students: After classes ended last spring, a RateMyProfessors.com user said Bishop “is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class.” In 2008, someone described her on the site by saying: “she’s a liberal from ‘Hahvahd’ and let’s you know exactly how she feels about particular subjects.” Finally, Walker found that she was a member of the “Clergy Letter Project,” which is devoted to connecting scientists with clergy members who “have questions about the science associated with all aspects of evolution.” For what it’s worth, Walker also recorded her outgoing voicemail message . Meanwhile, over at Media Elites, Steve Huff found that right-wing groups have already jumped on Bishop and her husband—who has also been detained, but not charged—and are using political views as put on display by Rate My Professors to fuel their rhetoric. Huff notes: Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, pointed this RateMyProfessors comment out and it was immediately picked up by other historically conservative bloggers. Because you know all the comments on “Rate My Professor” are true and valid reflections of a teacher’s personality, style and ability to do their job and not student perceptions and biases, right? Huff also dug up a complaint to the FTC by Bishop’s husband, which ends: “By the people … for the people …” not “Buy the people … for the Corporations …” Does a liberal ideology, an Ivy League education, and a husband who writes letters to the FTC make a rage-prone shooter? Not necessarily, but as we’ve learned, ideological extremities almost always definitely do. The extent of Bishop’s politics, ideas behind them, and the lifestyle to which Bishop and her husband inhibited them have yet to be fully fleshed out, but one thing—as each instance of breaking violence of this stripe happens proves without fail—is for sure: the pictures that can come together from aggregated information comes faster and deeper than the time before it, every time.
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Former ‘Hills’ star’s second young-adult novel, Sweet Little Lies, makes it to #1 on Children’s Chapter Books list. By Jocelyn Vena Lauren Conrad Photo: Getty Images It seems in Lauren Conrad’s world it’s not just the lies that are sweet. Her second young-adult novel, Sweet Little Lies, released less than a year after her first, L.A. Candy, is the former “Hills” star’s latest book to hit the top of the best seller list. Conrad has topped the New York Times list for Children’s Chapter Books for the week of February 21 for Lies, which was published earlier this month. In a statement to People, Conrad said that it feels good that her book is a success. “It’s so gratifying for my second book to be so successful and it was so fun to write! The characters were already developed so I really enjoyed the process so much more this time around,” she said. “All the characters have become like my friends now. “I just sat in bed writing and it was the best process,” she continued. “Who gets to work from home in their PJs? I’m just so thankful to my fans. Everyone is coming out to see me in the snow. I just can’t believe it.” MTV News checked in with Conrad while she was in New York promoting the book, and she said that this time around her heroine, Jane, finds that her life is about to get a lot more complicated thanks to the pitfalls of fame. “I think that if fans take anything away from the book, [they should realize] there’s a back side to every story,” she explained. “And when you’re reading tabloids and seeing these people’s lives exposed, it does affect them and it is hard to go through as a young girl.”
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Lauren Conrad Tops New York Times Best Seller List Again
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