I have to take my hat off to the people at Trojan. I have a tremendous amount of empathy for the pig.  In fact, I'm going to buy some condoms now.  Not Trojan, but Magnums…and some rubber bands. But hey, that's not the funny part.

It seems both Fox and CBS have decided not to air the commercial.  Bill O'Reilly called the ad inappropriate, but only after he aired it on his Fox News show.

Mr. Daniels of Trojan said he saw hypocrisy in networks accepting ads for products aimed at conditions like erectile dysfunction and herpes, but rejecting condom ads. “One of my hopes is that we see the networks’ standards evolve to be more practical and fair,” he said.

As for the small public groundswell in favor of the Evolve campaign, Mr. Daniels said, “There is a lot of support for the commercial and the general sense of advocating comprehensive sex education.”

According to a 2001 survey by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 71 percent of Americans believe that condom advertising should be allowed on television, more than those who approve of televised ads for beer (64 percent) or hard liquor (51 percent).

Don't worry.  Both NBC & ABC have no problem with the commercial.  That says a lot for ABC, who happens to be owned by the Walt Disney Company.  Even Mickey Mouse knows to wrap it.

While activists and leaders throughout the African-American community recently celebrated the “burial” of one of history’s most ill-regarded racial epithets, the white American majority shrugged, and dusted off a shelf-full of less-prominent yet still effective racist expressions.

Highly regarded author and African American studies professor Julian I. Gallaher III, speaking from his office at Tillman University, is skeptical that the symbolic “burial” will benefit black self-perception or enlighten inter-racial dialogue. “Ranging from the obviously offensive canon popular with unapologetic bigots to the wince-inducing code-speak of liberal intelligentsia, Caucasian America still has a rich vocabulary of derogatory terms with which to belittle people who have, in their estimation, too much melanin.”

Gallaher’s insights were well received by Tillman president J. Lawrence Towle. “Professor Gallaher is a bright, insightful man,” said Towle, “for someone working through the obvious mental challenges common to people who have come from circumstances such as his.”

White non-academics were less that florid about the demise of the N-word. Sipping an Old Style on the front porch of his Bridgeport bungalow, off-duty Chicago police officer Patrick Duggan noted, “we were ordered to stop using that word friggin’ years ago anyway. We just call them ‘Canadians’ or something like that.”

Similarly, Arkansas Wal-Mart cashier and NASCAR enthusiast Millie Mae Slocum exclaimed: “What’s the damn difference? Long as they stay the hell out of my sight.”

Overall, the white majority does not appear to be suffering any great sense of loss from this event, and while many miss the visceral impact of the original controversial word, they are fine expressing their racism with any number of alternative expressions.

“True, low-grade alternatives to the N-word didn’t feature prominently in To Kill a Mockingbird, and they certainly would have deprived many Quentin Tarantino films of their punch,” added Gallaher, “but they still allow racists – both the vicious and visible southern style, and the patronizing, insular northern style – to express their disdain and disregard for people of color.”

Duggan, who has no problem with blacks as long as they “settle the fuck down” was equally dismissive. “What’s the diff? I don’t like a guy, I don’t like a guy. I mean, let’s call a spade a spade, right?”

Members of the hip-hop music community did not return repeated calls requesting comment for this article.

Michael Vick (aka Ookie) was indicted today with friends P-Funk, Q, & T for "Conspiracy to Travel in Interstate Commerce in Aid of Unlawful Activities and to Sponsor a Dog in an Animal Fighting Venture." 

The "Animal Fighting Venture" was appropriately named Bad Newz Kennels (why not put a 'z' in Kennels???).  The indictment claimz that P-Funk, Q, and Vick "executed approximately 8 dogs that did not perform well in 'testing' sessions…by various methods, including hanging, drowning and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground." 

People who are extremely talented and extremely overpaid should be forgiven for small character flaws like animal cruelty.  Vick was just making his dogs tougher for the fight.  You know if you want to make an omelet, you'll have to break some eggs.   Keep it real and GO FALCONS!

To Read The Idictment, Check Out The Smoking Gun.

July is Seatbelt Awareness Month!  Wear yours today!

This is a big shock to me, but apparently Andy Dick does drugs.  The story goes that Andy Dick got Phil Hartman's wife back on cocaine five months before she shot her husband.  Lovitz was friends with Hartman, and well, took it personally.  When the two ran into each other last Wednesday at The Laugh Factory, the fun began:

Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed the assault, said, "Jon picked Andy up by the head and smashed him into the bar four or five times, and blood started pouring out of his nose." Lovitz told Page Six, "All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is a [bleep]hole."

I'd pay my life savings to see him try to fit into his Batman Forever suit again.  Hmmm… What about the first ever Original UnOriginal Pay-Per-View event?  We could have a big ring at the MGM Grand in Vegas complete with 3 minute rounds, Wayne Newton, fireworks and showgirls.  It would be Val, a tub of butter and his Batman Forever bat suit.  Or better yet, the Adam West bat suit!  Fuck, we have to make some calls on this.  Developing…

Source.

Thanks Tyler.

Uber A-list actor's actor, Sean Penn has been disturbed by recent remarks conservatives have made about liberal activists — Hollywood liberals in particular, says a close Penn pal.

One conservative blogger recently posted an opinion that is said to have been the catalyst for Penn's current indignation. The piece, in part, reads: "It seems that while the Jew-controlled, freedom hating, floating artists' colony that is Tinseltown is quite happy to bash our President and ridicule our way of life, they seem ill-prepared for any critical remarks aimed in their direction."

Indeed, when Chris Rock poked fun of winsome and ubiquitous movie star, Jude Law, at the 2005 Oscars, it was Sean Penn who icily chided Rock by calling Law "one of our finest actors".

Spicy stuff, indeed.

The friend quoted Penn as having said, "When we make a movie calling the President nothing short of a mass-murder, or the Vatican the equivalent of the Mafia, or take the opportunity to address environmental issues while hyping our latest comic book-derived summer blockbuster that's just us exercising our rights for free speech and embracing our roles as social critics. But when somebody goes online and says something about Me, they've crossed the line".

Penn, currently on location in Vancouver shooting "I Told You I was Sad" — a film in which he plays an emotionally stunted Canadian acrobat with polio — could not be reached for comment.

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The 500 Blows
Women in Cages
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
The Great Escape
Bad Boys
Sweet Sugar
The Big Doll House
The Last Days of Disco
V.I.P. (first season)
Reform School Girls
Black Mama, White Mama
Chicken Run
Lockup
Escape from Alcatraz
One Night in Paris
Pippy Longstocking
Dead Man Walking
The Toy
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