Open Investigation into Judging Decisions of Women’s Figure Skating and Demand Rejudgement at the Sochi Olympics
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Despite the institutionalized cheating, incomprehensible scoring system, the canned music, the toothy smiles, the figure skating at the winter Olympics is the most magnificent spectacle that international sports has to offer. I was a child figure skater, subjected to my own ugly skating costumes and cruel coaches, so I know a little of what I speak when I say, figure skating remains a mystifying holdout of monumentally bad taste in sports, with athletes competing in presentations that favor bugle beads, massive amounts of rhinestones, dip-dyed chiffon and frosted hair. The costumes preferred by figure skaters often seem designed to invoke a Moscow Circus send-up of a Las Vegas act. Year in and year out, figure skaters demonstrate the weird truth that, seemingly alone among winter sports, skating seems trapped in the style frost of the 1980’s, a sartorial dead end that – unlike snowboarding and skiing – has less than zero civilian fashion impact, it is even less cool. It’s the street wear equivalent of nude pumps and suntan pantyhose.
This story may make you laugh or make you want to kill yourself/others. “What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society”, by Kevin Roose in the New York Magazine, exposes the creepy secret fraternity, Kappa Beta Phi Wall Street Chapter, which involves an incredible list of some of the most gobstoppingly rich and powerfulAmericans acting out dumb skits in drag, the usual mocking of poor people and liberals, and making fun of the global financial crash that has devastated the savings of billions of people around the world.
One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
Members of Kappa Beta Phi include, from left: AIG CEO Robert Benmosche, muni bond queen Alexandra Lebenthal, and Mike Bloomberg.
Read the entire fascinating article from NY Mag. Read on an empty stomach.
Humanity and most everything else that walks or crawls, swims of flies loses. The Planet and its evolution then take another stab at life and possibly some hundreds of millions of years down the road the next” intelligent” life form finds us in the fossil record.
That Ham guy, even more than Bill Nye, delivered the decisive answer in that stupid debate: no, creationism is not science. It is a belief system based on a literal reading of select parts of a scientifically inaccurate book. Nothing less and certainly nothing more.
The Palace of Inquisition, also known as the Inquisition Palace, (Spanish: Palacio de la Inquisición), eighteenth-century torture chamber in Cartagena facing the Parque de Bolívar. Kind of crappy, but fun for the unfettered access you have to the torture equipment, good for horsing around on.
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Chris Christie’s going down the river for this cuz nobody, and I mean nobody, believes that a loudmouth control freak with a reputation for hardball tactics and retribution would’ve had all of his top aides suddenly embark on a highly visible revenge plot without him knowing. And with Christie so obviously willing to sacrifice the reputation of everyone in his office for the sake of his own, someone is going to stand up and refuse to get dumped in the East River for this two-bit hood. I’m just happy that he’s so stubbornly and publicaly insistent on his complete and total innocence that we get to see this play out in slow-motion. And let’s face it, Chris Christie was never going to be president, on the basis of his weight alone (prejudice against the overweight being the last form of socially-acceptable prejudice in the U.S.). Additionally, why am I supposed to be surprised that a New Jersey Republican Governor is a petty, corrupt bully? It’s the first bullet in the job description.Wake me when Christie is caught in flagrante delicito with Justin Bieber, por favor.
And Jesus spake unto the multitude saying, ‘Frigging losers — It’s your own da*n fault you’re destitute. Now look at our good friend Pontius Pilate over there. He worked hard, played by the rules, and now he’s provincial governor! Be more like HIM!” Blessed are the poor unless they don’t have any money.
And the word “meek” was ancient Aramaic for “investors.”