It’s wasn’t Charlie Sheen’s possibly deranged, potentially BS and certainly attention-seeking behavior that has disturbed me over the last week or so. It’s been the way in which this behavior has been greeted largely as a joke — with phrases like “winning” and “tiger’s blood” being used as punchlines and Sheen in general being greeted with smirks and a record number of Twitter followers. One man even immortalized Sheen’s insane media blitz with a particularly ugly tattoo which he said was the talk of the bar after he got it done. Perhaps more confusing and disappointing was Jezebel blogger Jessica Coen posting an article about how she “Played Phone Tag with Charlie Sheen,” pretending she was interested in a job as a “Goddess” at Sheen’s newly-christened Sober Valley Lodge, even sending a photo …
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BBC Accused of Ageism for Trading “Older” Female Stars for Newer Models


According to the Mail Online, UK’s Education Secretary, Michael Gove has accused the BBC of ageism, saying that he’d rather watch Selina Scott (left) or AbFab‘s Joanna Lumley on TV than Holly Willoughby (right) or Fearne Cotton.
Many people believe that the BBC has a long record of age discrimination, the most recent incident being the firing of Countryfile‘s Miriam O’Reilly after the BBC had announced plans to “revamp” the show. O’Reilly alleges that she had been told to “be careful about those wrinkles” while on the program, and was eventually fired in favor of younger staff members. A tribunal has ruled that O’Reilly was, in fact, the victim of age discrimination and is expected to receive a £150,000 payout from the BBC, which has already apologized to her and offered her her job back.
Selina Scott herself spoke out about the BBC’s apparent age discrimination two years ago, saying even then that she lamented the lack of older female anchors and reporters on the BBC’s news channels, saying:
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Wook Kundor, 108, and Hubby Mohd Noor, 35, Seek Adoption
Something tells me an 108 year old and her 35 year old recovering husband should not look to adopt, but fuck, I really don’t know. Don’t really feel like I am in any position to be doling out family planning advice, especially when it concerns individuals whose economic, social, cultural, and religious circumstances are TOTALLY different from mine.
Wook Kundor (Nek Wook) and husband Mohd Noor Che Musa reunited earlier this month, upon Noor’s return from Besut drug rehabilitation center. Living in Kuala Terengganu, a north eastern city of Malaysia, Kundor and Moor received international …