What the hell is it with Florida and mothers doing crazy ish to their kids?? 14-Year Old Girl Admits To Choking New Born And Putting Him In Shoebox A Teenage girl in Florida who hid her pregnancy from her family has confessed to choking the newborn to death following his birth and then hiding his body in a shoebox. Polk County Sheriff’s detectives have charged a 14-year-old girl with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for allegedly choking her newborn baby to death. The girl, who was not named by authorities, was arrested Thursday night. Detectives say the girl hid her pregnancy from her family. She gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her home on Sept. 19, then told detectives that she choked the baby and put him in a shoebox. The girl’s mother found the baby in the box, hidden in some laundry. She is being held at the Polk County Juvenile Detention Facility. It’s unclear whether she’s retained an attorney. How people can continue to do such horrible and sad things to defenseless babies is something that we will never understand. Image via Shutterstock
C’mon Fatty McFats, put on three sports bras and bust a good sweat Doctors Deny Jessica Simpson’s Two Requests For Lap Band Surgery Via RadarOnline New mom Jessica Simpson has been open about her battle to lose her baby weight, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that she was so desperate at one point to get back in shape that she sought out an extreme surgical method to slim down – but was turned down by doctors. “After having her daughter Maxwell, Jessica felt there was no way she could ever lose the weight on her own because she has struggled so much in the past and her post partum weight seemed to be growing,” a close friend of the fashion designer and singer told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. “So like a true Hollywood girl, she sought out a quick surgical fix – lap band surgery!” However, health experts wisely advised the Dukes of Hazzard star that a quick fix wasn’t the answer following the May 1 birth, and after seeking out two different doctors for opinions, “she was persuaded to keep pushing to do it the natural way,” said her pal. Instead of going under the knife, 32-year-old Jessica has been blasting off the 70 pregnancy pounds by working out with celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak and sticking to her Weight Watchers eating plan, for which she is a spokesperson . Jessica’s family is said to be glad that extra LBS didn’t send her into post-partum depression. “She has had to deal with the blues in the past,” revealed the insider. “So everyone was thrilled that she has avoided PPD. “With the doctors’ words and her friends’ encouragement, she is finally shedding the pounds without surgery!” These Hollyweird hoes always trying to get over, get yo’ post-partum a$$ on the treadmill and put down the stick of butter! Image via WENN
This story still has so many unanswered questions… Almost two months after O.J. Murdock passed away, the Hillsborough County (Fla.) medical examiner’s office has officially ruled the cause of death a suicide. The former Tennessee Titans wide receiver died on July 30th. Interim Medical Examiner, Dr. Mary K. Mainland, signed off on the autopsy report last Friday. According to Sports Illustrated , O.J.’s family plans to have further investigations into the cause of death… What remains unclear is what effect, if any, football played in the July 30 tragedy. Murdock was the fifth former NFL player in the last two years to take his own life and the fourth this year — following Kurt Crain (April 10), Ray Easterling (April 19), Junior Seau (May 2) — and his family has consented to his brain tissue being examined by Boston University researchers studying the effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease brought on by multiple concussions. While his family awaits the findings from that study, his death remains a puzzling tragedy for them, his friends, teammates and former coaches. By the accounts of those people who knew him best, Murdock was a happy young soul with a 500-watt smile and fervor to restart his NFL career with the Titans after missing his rookie season last year with a torn Achilles tendon. “When you met O.J., you fell in love with him. He was a humble young man who just had this great gleam in his eye,” said Hadley Engelhard, his agent. “He just had a wonderful personality,” said Harry Hubbard, who was Murdock’s head football coach at Middleton High in Tampa. “He had a great smile. He was a loving person.” Images via AP/twitter
Police are investigating the death of 28-year-old actor Johnny Lewis, whose credits include AVPR: Aliens vs Predator – Requiem , The Runaways , Lovely Molly , TV’s Drake & Josh , The O.C. , and American Dreams following the apparent murder of his elderly landlord in Los Angeles. Lewis was best known for playing Kip ‘Half Sack’ Epps on Sons of Anarchy . The body of 81-year-old Katherine Chabot Davis was found inside her Los Feliz home, where Lewis was renting a room. Per reports, Lewis fought with at least two people at the site before taking a fatal fall. According to TMZ, authorities believe “Lewis was either on PCP or meth at the time of the murder. The two people who fought Lewis before he fell to his death from a roof told cops the actor exhibited ‘superhuman strength.'” More details of the sad, bizarre incident here . [ TMZ ]
If time travel is ever to be invented, wouldn’t we already have had evidence of it? The question is enough to give grammarians seizures, let alone filmmakers. As Jeff Daniels’s world-weary time-traveling crime lord says in Rian Johnson ‘s Looper , “this time travel shit fries your brain like an egg.” And the film, out this Friday, is far from the most brain-frying cinematic treatment of time travel. To help make sense of a genre riddled with paradoxes, I contacted Tim Maudlin, philosophy professor at NYU, who has written extensively on time travel, and quickly rattled off my preconceptions on the matter.* According to Maudlin, there are two types of time-travel narratives in fiction. The most common, which he calls “inconsistent time-travel stories,” are about a traveler who goes back in time and changes the course of events, à la Marty McFly. To Maudlin, movies of this type— Looper included—“literally make no sense.” If the character goes back in time, then there would never have been a past without him. In “consistent” time-travel stories, however, the time traveler was always a part of the events he affected (e.g. Twelve Monkeys, or Robert Heinlein’s classic mindfuck of a short story, — All You Zombies—, in which the main character is both his own mother and father). These are Moebius strip narratives. There is no first time around or second time around. There is just one past that contains the traveler. Stories of this type, Maudlin says, “are more like clever crossword puzzles, where all the various threads fit together in a satisfactory way. They appeal to the logician rather than the sentimentalist.” With that distinction in mind, we can determine just how logical Looper and the other nine best time-travel movies are. (Another paradox: the more logical the treatment of time travel, the more it makes your brain hurt.) Looper (2012)[ Spoiler warning! ] Plot: Joe, a young gun-for-hire, must kill his future self or be killed, but Bruce Willis, naturally, has another outcome in mind. Consistent? No. We see a whole timeline in which Young Joe kills Old Joe, then lives out the rest of his life before coming up with a plan to stop Young Joe from killing the now Old Joe. If he succeeds, he would never have been able to live the life he lived theretofore. And the ending raises an even bigger paradox. Back to the Future (1985) Plot: Marty McFly, a kid with a mad-scientist friend and a loser dad, travels from 1985 to 1955 in a souped-up DeLorean, fools around with his hot teenage mom, inspires his dad to grow a pair and knock Biff the bully out, then returns to 1985. Consistent? No. If Marty goes back in time, then there would never have been a version of the past without him. The other thing is, for Marty to still be born after his disruption of his parents’ courtship, his mom and pop need to time the moment of fertilization to the microsecond. But that’s more a question of probability (and staying power) than logic. Back to the Future II (1989) Plot: Marty travels to the future, buys a sports almanac, which falls in the hands of elder Biff, who travels to 1955, and gives it to his younger self, thus helping Biff become a sports-gambling gazillionaire, and transforming Hill Valley into a seedy dystopia. Marty goes back to 1955 to destroy the almanac, without interfering with his previous time-traveling exploits from the first movie. Consistent? No. In the words of Doc Brown, writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale weren’t “thinking fourth dimensionally.” Narratively, it’s fantastic. Logically, it’s all over the place, where multiple timelines coexist and alternate. Back to the Future III (1990) Plot: After reading that Doc, who traveled to 1885, died in a duel against Biff’s gunslinging ancestor, Marty finds the DeLorean Doc had hidden away and goes back to save him. Consistent: Of course not. As with the first two, the multiple timelines are irreconcilable paradoxes. Plus, as several obsessive geek sites have pointed out, when Marty finds the DeLorean and goes back to 1885 with it, there should by all logic be two DeLoreans in 1885. The Terminator (1984) Plot: In a last-ditch effort to win the future war against mankind, Skynet’s intelligent machines send the Terminator back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor and prevent her from giving birth to John Connor, who would grow up to lead the successful human-led Resistance. But the Resistance sends Kyle Reese back to protect Sarah. Overstepping his duties, he impregnates her, and she gives birth to… John Connor! Consistent? Yes. It’s circular, chicken-or-egg logic, but it holds together.
So are they saying that Cam is a pu**y?! These folks got a lot of nerve, it’s only week 3!!! Has Cam Newton lost Charlotte? The second-year Carolina Panthers quarterback was the subject of a scathing editorial cartoon in Wednesday’s edition of The Charlotte Observer. He’s depicted performing his patented Superman touchdown celebration only to reveal a Hello Kitty logo on his chest. The cartoon appears six days after the Panthers’ 36-7 loss to the New York Giants. Newton was roundly criticized for emphatically celebrating a touchdown with his team down 23-0 in the third quarter against the defending Super Bowl champions. Later in the game, veteran wide receiver Steve Smith reportedly had “unchoice words” for Newton after the quarterback sulked on the bench following his third interception. Newton’s behavior in the postgame press conference was similarly sulky. On Sunday, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported Newton was seeing a “mind coach” to help him deal with the pressure of being an NFL quarterback. Newton denied the report. The 2011 No. 1 overall draft pick, Newton shattered a number of NFL rookie quarterback records last season, including those for most passing and rushing yards. But his record as a starter is a middling 7-12 and this, evidently, is a cause for the Observer to jump ship on the Panthers quarterback three games into his second season. A “mind coach”??? WTF is that about? We hope Cam doesn’t go the way of Vince Young and start losing his mind before his prime. Do you think that the criticism of Cam’s game smells of the old racist idea that Black quarterbacks aren’t good enough to compete in the NFL? Image via AP/CharlotteObserver
We honestly thought this was an ad for Making The Band Season 684…. Brooklyn Nets Cheerleader Uniforms Raise Eyebrows Sigh. We just don’t even know what to say about these. Incase you haven’t heard, the former NBA New Jersey Nets are now the Brooklyn Net s thanks to none other than Roc Nation bossman Hov. And you know what they say, behind every great group of NBA men…….are future groupies cheerleaders rockin’ leather dresses and thigh-high boots while cheering them on. What do you think of the new Brooklyn Nets cheerleader uniforms? Image via Hip Hop Update
These jawns look like granny panties! Kim Kardashian Walks The Beach Wearing Unflattering Bikini It can’t be denied that Kanye West has had a major influence on Kim Kardashian’s wardrobe choices lately, while some may be for the better, this ain’t one of them. We can’t say for sure that Mr. West lent his fashionisto eye to this particular ensemble, but anytime Kim looks like she just HAD twins, instead of SHOWING her “twins” it’s not a good look. Take a look at the pics and decide…are you feeling this get up??? Sidebar: Kourtney has still got those milky mommy tiddaaaays poppin’ too! Images via PacificCoastNews
The most beautifullest thing in this world… Alicia Keys is def still a girl on fire, recently voted “The Most Beautifullest!” by Juicy magazine and the Mommy-Banger is posted up on the cover of their October 2012 issue! She’s keeping good company in the mag too. Others lovely ladies announced include Nia Long, Beyoncé, Lauren London, Cassie, Janelle Monáe, Erykah Badu, Gabrielle Union, Christina Milian, and the list goes on. The October issue features exclusive interviews, including… • Brandy • Big Sean • Eva Marcille • Laz Alonso • Amber Rose • B.o.B We’ve got some Juicy snippets from the mag for you too… –Omari Hardwick on his ideal woman… “Even if you’re an avid sports fan, you have to be able to watch a ball game. You gotta have a sense of humor and your eyes have to be extremely soulful…” –Tamar Braxton on spending that heel money…“It’s a horrible addiction. Don’t get started on it if you already haven’t.” –Elle Varner on choosing an alternate career… “I’ve never had a plan B. I never took the time to say, ‘Okay, I’m gonna do [this or that] if music doesn’t work out.’” –Chilli on keeping it tight and right… “I love the challenge of seeing who has, and can keep the best abs.” –Laura Govan on life before dropping 90-plus pounds… “You can’t lose weight eating a cake everyday. And yes, I was…and melting it in the microwave.” Check out the issue when it hits newsstands! Images via Juicy Magazine
Another day, another sexuality reveal. Today it’s former Pirates owner, Kevin McClatchy… Via ESPN: Kevin McClatchy, the owner and CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1996 to 2007, has acknowledged he is gay to The New York Times, saying frequent homophobic slurs he heard in baseball circles had convinced him to keep his sexual orientation a secret. McClatchy, an heir to a newspaper chain who sold his shares of the Pirates in 2009 only after ensuring that the club remained in Pittsburgh, said the time had finally come to speak openly about his sexuality. “You’re not going to solve any problem until you start a dialogue,” McClatchy told The Times for an op-ed story published in Sunday’s editions. “And there’s no dialogue right now.” McClatchy will also be the subject of Wednesday’s “Outside The Lines” (3 p.m. ET on ESPN). “I’ve got a birthday coming up where I’m turning old,” McClatchy, who will turn 50 in January, told The Times. “I’ve spent 30 years — or whatever the number is specifically — not talking about my personal life, lying about my personal life.” McClatchy, 49, is not the first major-league executive or former executive to come out as gay. Rick Welts, the president and chief executive officer of the Phoenix Suns, revealed his sexuality last year. “This has been challenging to me,” McClatchy told The Times of his decision to reveal his sexual orientation. “I probably didn’t sleep as well as I could have last night.” McClatchy boasted of baseball’s ending of racial segregation in sports while saying he didn’t think players considered it similar to one of their own coming out as gay.
