Thursday, December 29, 2016
Shaming Steve Martin or Why Trump Won
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Trolling the SlutWalk
Monday, June 4, 2012
Rocco Luka Magnotta: murder, video, arrest and hypocrisy
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Sex and 11 y.o. motherhood
Friday, January 7, 2011
top 10 causes of die-offs
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Prostitutes and female crime
The Soprano who went Koo-Koo
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Mowgli woman runs back to forest
Apparently, Rochom P’ngieng is now 29 and disappeared in the jungle while herding water buffalo with her sister in 1989 when she was only a little girl, to be “discovered and reintegrated in 2007. Some doubt that she could have survived this long and claim she is somebody else, but we cannot find out, as her father had refused a DNA test.
However, attempts to reintegrate her have failed. She has not learnt either of the local languages, Khmer or Phnang, prefers to crawl rather than walk, refuses to wear clothes and has made several attempts to return to the forest where she grew up.
Her father, Sal Lou, a policeman, said that she had been making progress recently, but disappeared on Tuesday evening. "She took off her clothes and ran away from the house without saying a word to any of our family members," Mr Lou said.
"Even the day before she fled the house, she still helped the family pick vegetables. She must have gone back to the forest and we still cannot find her." The dramatic reappearance and attempted reintegration of the "jungle girl" has gripped Cambodia, where she is also known as the "half-animal girl" because of her hunched appearance and the fact she makes animal noises rather than speaking.
Mr Lou blames his daughter's second disappearance on "forest spirits". In a society shrouded in mystic beliefs, he has also enlisted a fortune teller to help with the search. He is saving up for an offering of one wild ox, one pig, one chicken and four jugs of wine, which, the mystic assures him, will secure his daughter's return.
A separate theory was offered by local rights group, Ad hoc, which believes that the woman struggled to readapt to society and suffers from stress. "She must have experienced traumatic events in the jungle that have affected her ability to speak," said Penn Bunna.
The alternative explanation of her being a different woman who has escaped captivity and / or enslavement is far more likely in my view.
Her sister has never been found, but Rochom emerged from the jungle, filthy, naked, scared and "looking like a monkey" in February 2007. She was caught stealing food from a farmer's lunch box after a stakeout.
Locals reported sightings of her with a naked man carrying a sword, who they believe to be a jungle spirit. Her parents, who had long given up hope of seeing their daughters again, identified her from a scar on her arm and welcomed her back into the family.
Her case is hardly singular not only in literature (see wikipedia’s list of feral children), but also in Cambodia, where in November 2004, 34 people from a pro-Khmer Rouge tribe emerged from the jungle where they had been hiding since the fall of the regime in 1979.
Sources / More info: telegraph-cambodian-woman, wiki-list-feral-children, yt-mowgli
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The human-faced lamb and bestiality
Friday, September 11, 2009
i had to drive - mommy was tired!
Our society has changed a great deal since the 60s. We live in one big safety bubble, with the president and vice-president no longer interested in upholding the US Constitution, but rather concerned with the nation’s safety at all costs. Was it that long ago that Benjamin Franklin said his famous words, warning against trading off freedom for security, as we’ll end up with neither?!?
Well, anyhow, two moms were busted for being so stoned / drunk that their kids did a better job driving. The first, had her 6-year-old drive the car because, as the kid said, mommy was too tired to drive after smoking that smelly stuff:
In the second news, mom was too drunk, ending up driving her child to the wrong school:
Said the admission officer at Harvard: “to get into our school, you have to smoke crack and your father must be head of the CIA. Then, you have to sleep in crypt. Wait, scratch that last one; it’s true only if you plan to run for president.”
As you can tell, the main thing the two mommies have in common, apart from kids, is a certain aristocratic flair – even the MILF descriptor would seem like an insult.
Here’s the sneak preview of S03E04 of Mad Men, where a grandfather is teaching his young granddaughter to drive on a residential street:
This is not the first time that show is playing with the safety and youth obsessions that have come to define our age. It wasn’t long ago that safety was not paramount and kids enjoyed a less greenhouse-bound existence, better preparing them for real life. Today, this can be seen only in developing countries..
Sources / More info: msn-stoned, msn-drunk, mad-men-ep-4, yt
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Closet-minded people
The thief forced his way into her apartment, she made him a cup of tea, then listened sympathetically to his life story for about 20 minutes. Entertained, she gave him 10000 yen ($100) then ran outside to call the Police from a pay phone, presumably leaving the baby with the thief. I am just as confused as you are.
This is not the only time Japanese has been in the news with a woman in a very strange situation. At the end of May, 2008, we learned about a 58 y.o. woman who lived hidden in a small closet in a 58 y.o man’s house FOR A YEAR (2). That man became suspicious after food disappeared from the fridge, so he installed a surveillance system, filming her as she walked around his house in his absence. I always suspected that that Japanese horror flick with the house that kills, taking the shape of a woman, was based on reality. Was that woman also living a secret fantasy? Were they, unbeknownst to him, masturbating simultaneously? Hard to tell. Still, old people in Japan have significant difficulties surviving. Their society sees people who have to depend on others as deadweight, and being unable to provide for yourself is a great shame. Many people die of hunger rather than apply to be on welfare and when they apply they are often rejected (3).
If you think that only Japanese women can inspire horror movies, you’re wrong. David Joe Limones (4), 27, from Newburgh, NY, carved a hole into a 22 y.o. woman’s couch and hid in it, waited for her to come home, to emerge from there as she sat on him, while talking to a friend on the phone. Apparently, she was on the phone with a friend because she felt he might be hiding there and she had filed a complaint about him before (???!!!).
This reminds me of one of my favourite beer commercials. At a costume party, a sexy blonde sits on a comfy couch. Two weirdoes in costumes sat by her side, trying to seduce her. She’s not interested, and changes positions several times. Eventually, she stands up departing, leaving the two bozos behind. As she goes, we see that the couch was actually some happy dude in a couch costume. He then opens up a beer, the source of all his power, intellect, inspiration and creativity.
Feeling the couch moving underneath you is bad enough, but having a baby bat in your 34FF bra could make you feel sorry for disturbing it. At least that’s what Abbie Hawkins, 19, of Norwich, UK said.
“It looked cosy and comfortable and I was sorry for disturbing it,” she said.
She was sitting at her desk at work when she decided to investigate the strange movements in her underwear. “I put my hand down my bra and pulled out a cuddly little bat. Perhaps I should have left it there and given it a good home.”
“That shocked me very much at the time, but it scuttled off under the desk into the dark. I was shaking from head to toe.
“It looked quite cosy and comfortable in there so it was quite rude of me to take it out.
“When I realised it was a bat the first thing that occurred to me was how did it get in there.
“I felt quite sorry for it. Perhaps I should have left it there and given it a good home.
“I did not notice anything as I put my bra on. The night before I had had one or two drinks and I was getting ready quickly.
“The bra was in my drawer but it had been on the washing line the day before.
“When I was driving to work, I felt a slight vibration but I thought it was just my mobile phone in my jacket pocket.”
The bat was captured by one of her colleagues and released.
Sometimes, it’s news like this that make you want to use the toilet. And if you’re in southern India, in the Tamil Nadu state, the government will pay you to use the toilet (5):
It pays to use a toilet in southern India, as residents are earning close to a dollar a month by using public urinals, a scheme launched by authorities to promote hygiene and research in rural areas.
Dozens of people are queuing up to use toilets in Musiri, a remote town in Tamil Nadu state, where authorities have succeeded in keeping street corners clean with the new scheme, The Times of India newspaper said on Sunday.
“In fact, many of us started using toilets for urination only after the ecosan (ecological sanitation) toilets were constructed in the area,” said S. Rajasekaran, a truck cleaner.
The urine was also being collected and tested for its efficacy as a crop fertilizer, an official of the state’s agricultural university added.
People relieving themselves in the open is a common sight in India’s rural towns and villages, as basic sanitation still eludes millions.
Sources
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0818516620080708
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7426950.stm
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/world/asia/12japan.html
4. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080620/ap_on_re_us/man_in_couch
5. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSDEL30766120080707