The Very Best Of The Internet Vs. Floyd Mayweather 50 Cent and Floyd have been tangled in a bizarro ex-BFF beef for months that exploded when 50 challenged Floyd to read a Harry Potter book for charity . At first, no one really “got” the reading challenge until we heard the All-world boxer struggle mightily to read a short paragraph which sparked both sympathy and endless slander across the internet. Hit the jump for the funniest (or meanest) tweets/IG comments from this 50/Floyd saga.
Is Queen Bey a baby-snatcher? NY Woman Files Maternity Suit For Blue Ivy Carter A rare maternity suit has been filed in NY…by a woman claiming to be the real mother of Blue Ivy Carter . Throw this on top of the pile of BS Team Carter is facing daily… Via TheHollywoodGossip : A woman named Tina Seals has reportedly filed a maternity lawsuit in Manhattan in which she claims to be the mother of Blue Ivy Carter, Jay Z and Beyonce’s only child. The rumored legal document alleges that Seals is seeking “to verify whether she is the biological mother” of the toddler and that she was “previously associated” in some way with defendants “Beyonce Knowles and Jay Z Carter.” It’s nearly unheard of for a woman to file a maternity lawsuit because this somehow means Seals believes SHE gave birth to Blue Ivy instead of Beyonce… which is just an odd thing for the latter to have covered up and/or the former to have allowed. Could she have had an affair with Jay Z, given the child up for adoption to the couple and is now having second thoughts? It’s unclear, and it could be complete BS – but this scandal comes amidst incessant chatter that Jay Z and Beyonce are on the outs. They’ve been touring together for weeks, but many close to the stars say the singers scarcely talk off stage and that “no one will be surprised” when they split. Jay Z, meanwhile, has been rumored to have stepped out on Beyonce with everyone from Rihanna to some artist named Liv… and now with Tina Seals as well. Or perhaps she acted as a surrogate. Blue is the spitting image of both her parents. Unless this woman looks just like Beyonce and stole Hov’s baby batter somehow, we can’t see how she could possibly have mothered Baby Blue.
Al gets put on blast! Al Sharpton Confronted Over Being A FBI Snitch In Ferguson Missouri Via Western Journalism reports: The riots in Ferguson, Missouri have brought MSNBC’s race-baiting Al Sharpton to the scene, ready to inform on the police officer accused of fatally shooting a black unarmed 18-year-old man. Sharpton is pressing the police department to release the name of the officer who fatally shot Michael Brown during a scuffle after the officer asked Brown and another teen to get out of the street. A crowd gathered around “Reverend” Sharpton as he made his way to Ferguson City Hall. Progressives Today reporter Adam Sharp hurled questions at Sharpton regarding his previously reported mob ties that led him to become an informant for the FBI. SMH!!!
You sure about that , your honor? Chris Brown Has Drug Tests Reduced Due To Good Behavior According to TMZ reports : Chris Brown’s been partying his ass off, but as far as the judge in his Rihanna beating case is concerned … he’s been a model citizen — and his reward will be fewer random drug tests. Chris was in court in L.A. Wednesday for a progress report on his probation, and the results were glowing — all his random drug tests were negative and he attended bi-weekly therapy sessions. So the judge agreed to cut the singer a break, and scale back the number of drug tests from 3 a week … to just 2. Wasn’t Breezy JUST gettin’ dragged out the club by his homies a few months back? Image via WENN
Worst Parking Jobs You’ve EVER Seen Parking is the easiest part of driving (because it’s when you stop) that some people make very difficult (and even dangerous ), especially in major cities with stressfully tight parking situations. Hit the flip for the worst parking fails EVER.
Is Karlie Redd really homeless and living with other Z-List celebs? Karlie Redd Denies Being Homeless Via Rumor Fix reports: Karlie Redd is NOT homeless, despite tabloid reports! Gossip sites have falsely reported on Monday that the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star had been couch surfing since 2005, and mot recently shacked up with alleged new love interest Michael Blackson. But RumorFix can confirm exclusively that neither of those things are true — the reality star beauty has a very comfortable roof over her head and she’s most definitely not canoodling with the comedian. A rep for the star tells RumorFix exclusively, “Karlie Redd is not now, nor has she ever been homeless. Because of the constant publicity swirl around Love & Hip Hop, Ms. Redd has simply chosen to keep this part of her life very private.” The rep continues, “In addition, Mr. Michael Blackson is merely a friend and business associate of Ms. Redd. They maintain a completely platonic and respectable relationship. These rumors are based on pure speculation and are completely false. I am happy to confirm that Ms. Redd lives very comfortably in a lovely home.” So, Karlie isn’t homeless folks. She just looks like a homeless ho. Got it? IG
Oh. Theodore Wafer Shocked That He Was Found Guilty Of Renisha McBride’s Murder Via NYDailyNews A suburban Detroit man convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a young, unarmed woman on his porch is “shocked” by the verdict and deeply remorseful over her death, his attorney said Friday. “He never intended to kill anybody,” Cheryl Carpenter told The Associated Press. “When a person doesn’t have intent, it doesn’t seem right for him to be labeled a murderer.” Theodore Wafer, 55, was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday in the death of 19-year-old Renisha McBride. He said he was afraid for his life when he decided to open the front door and fire a shotgun through a screen door, instantly killing McBride before dawn last Nov. 2. Wafer testified that he acted in self-defense in response to relentless pounding at his doors, but the jury didn’t agree. Prosecutors believe McBride may have been confused and was looking for help when she arrived at his Dearborn Heights home. She had crashed her car hours earlier, and an autopsy found she was very drunk. “We are shocked at the conviction,” said Carpenter, who didn’t speak to reporters immediately after the verdict. “We might not agree with what he did or how he did it, but he was honest with what he told us about that night.” Wafer’s sentencing date was moved to Aug. 20 from Aug. 25. He faces up to life in prison. “Even if he gets 15 years, that’s essentially a life sentence for him,” Carpenter said, noting Wafer’s age. We won’t lose a wink of sleep. Promise. Image via AP
What’s in a name ? White-Sounding Name Is Worth About 8 Years Of Work Experience Via The Atlantic reports: Companies with names that are simple and easy to pronounce see significantly higher investments than more complexly named stocks, especially just after their initial public offerings when information on the stock’s fundamentals are most scarce. People with easier to pronounce names are also judged more positively and tend to be hired and promoted more often than their more obscurely named peers. There are more variables at play than just pronunciation, though. In competitive fields that have classically been dominated by men, such as law and engineering, women with sexually ambiguous names tend to be more successful. This effect is known as the Portia Hypothesis (named for the heroine of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice who disguises herself as a lawyer’s apprentice and takes on the name Balthazar to save the titular merchant, Antonio). A study found that female lawyers with more masculine names—such as Barney, Dale, Leslie, Jan, and Rudell—tend to have better chances of winning judgeships than their more effeminately named female peers. All else being equal, changing a candidate’s name from Sue to Cameron tripled a candidate’s likelihood of becoming a judge; a change from Sue to Bruce quintupled it. Names work hard: They can affect who gets into elite schools, what jobs we apply for, and who gets hired. Our names can even influence what cities we live in, who we befriend, and what products we buy since, we’re attracted to things and places that share similarities to our names. A name is, after all, perhaps the most important identifier of a person. Most decisions are made in about three to four seconds of meeting someone, and this “thin-slicing” is surprisingly accurate. Something as packed full of clues as a name tends to lead to all sorts of assumptions and expectations about a person, often before any face-to-face interaction has taken place. A first name can imply race, age, socioeconomic status, and sometimes religion, so it’s an easy—or lazy—way to judge someone’s background, character, and intelligence. A 2004 study showed that all else being equal, employers selected candidates with names like Emily Walsh and Greg Baker for callbacks almost 50 percent more often than candidates with names like Lakisha Washington and Jamal Jones. Work experience was controlled and the candidates never met face-to-face with the employer so all that was being tested was the effect of the candidate’s name. The researchers concluded that there was a great advantage to having a white-sounding name, so much so that having a white-sounding name is worth about eight years of work experience. “Jamal” would have to work in an industry for eight years longer than “Greg” for them to have equal chances of being hired, even if Jamal came from a privileged background and Greg from an underprivileged one. (Perhaps that’s why mega-celebrities can get away with giving their children peculiar names. A résumé with the name North West probably wouldn’t do as well as James Williamson—unless Papa Kanye called up the boss.) Do you think having a white sounding name is more beneficial than having a “ethnic” name in the professional world?
