Alison and Ann Dadow (otherwise known as Alexandria and Anastasia Duval).Photo: Courtesy of Twitter/aguyonclematis via NYMag n May 29, two women were pulled from the wreckage of a Ford Explorer SUV in Maui, Hawaii, after their car plunged over a 200-foot cliff. The driver, 37-year-old Alexandria Duval, was still alive. The passenger, her twin sister, […]
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Out of all that argle-bargle about what happened, I have ascertained the following: Michael Brown, high on pot and rap lyrics, was bum rushing the police officer while simultaneously going for his gun, AFTER being shot five times. Assuming that Officer Wilson is right handed (like 85% of human race), then his firearm would be […]
Racists: Well, he was shot 6 times because he robbed a convenience store. Reality Check: We don’t know that. Racists: Well, he got shot because he charged the cop. Reality Check: With what weapon? Racists: Well, he was killed because he had pot in his system. Reality Check: Because everybody knows marijuana makes you so […]
Who is this hot shot squinting and snarling his way through the Benghazi hearings? It’s Darrell Issa, the unlikely subpoena-wielding chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, fulfilling his duty of stickin’ it to the Obama administration over one grossly exaggerated scandal after another. Darrell Issa (above) and mugger from a John […]
The regrettably late Court TV was a TV experiment way ahead of its time. What seemed a grotesque spectacle in 1994 with the thoroughly televised trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, has become a permanent state of being in the criminal courts. I was one of the idiots sucked in by the theatrics and the polarized emotions that […]
from atlantic wire by Dashiell Bennett and Philip Bump n a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd “satellite” interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all. The two suspects are Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy […]
Because things aren’t weird enough already, a 45-year old Elvis impersonator from Mississippi is accused of mailing those ricin-positive letters to national leaders – including the President. Paul Kevin Curtis has not admitted to sending the deadly mail, even though he signed them. The aging rockabilly dude told authorities all about his alleged discovery […]
Crimewatchers gather round! Who the hell is this woman with the bulldog underbite and the rooster hairdo? This, folks, is who the Jodi Arias defense chose as their “expert”, apparently based entirely on the title of her book. This is Alyce LaViolette aka the only person on earth who thinks Jodi Arias is telling the […]
We’re all familiar with the traditional, geek/tough-girl/under-privileged/unpopular/homely secretly gorgeous ugly duckling who slaps on some makeup and gets to swim as a swan. It’s often the only tolerable part of a really bad movie. We feel an undeniable vicarious frisson as glasses are removed, hair is set, eyeliner gets applied and eyebrows are tweezed. Voila! The […]