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purepedantry | January 8, 2008So good:
Although Dr. Phil -- whose full name is Phillip McGraw -- announced Monday that he is shelving plans for a show on Spears' latest breakdown, some in the mental health community say just showing up at her hospital room last week was going too far.
"It's true people sometimes need to be placed under involuntary mental health treatment because they can't take care of themselves," veteran psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Sugar said of the 26-year-old Spears. "But there's a difference between being detained involuntarily for psychological treatment and being forced to endure Dr. Phil…
purepedantry | June 4, 2007Sarah Silverman slams Paris Hilton at the MTV Movie Awards. Too bad Paris was in the audience at the time.
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Hat-tip: WWTDD.
purepedantry | November 7, 2006Did you know that Sacha Baron Cohen, star of the Borat movie, and Simon Baron Cohen, a prominent autism scientist, are related? I didn't. They are cousins.
Baron Cohen, 35, rarely gives interviews out of character. He guards his privacy so fiercely that, according to the U.K. press, his publicists denied not only that he attended a party for "Borat"'s recent London premiere, but also that a party even occurred. (It did.) When NEWSWEEK contacted his cousin Simon Baron Cohen, a psychologist and one of the world's chief experts on autism, Dr. Baron Cohen demurred via e-mail: "I must respect…
purepedantry | October 2, 2006I was just thinking about something. The Nobel Committee is usually mysterious in how they pick the winners, but why did Greg Hannon not win the Nobel with the others? My understanding was that he was sort of the guy for RNA interference. In fact, the review that I cited in my last post came from him because I know that he has written all kinds of reviews about it.
Also, a lab mate of mine mentioned this: why did they win Medicine and not Chemistry? Because RNAi treatments have ended up being such loads of hype. It has ended up being such a load because no one can get enough of it into a…
purepedantry | July 4, 2006Every time I think that Britney Spears cannot become more trailer trash, she goes and becomes the black hole into which all other trailer trash in the Universe is sucked:
That would be Britney Spears in the latest issue of Bazaar being her very pregnant self.
1) That was disturbing when Demi Moore did it. It didn't end up being, as intended, a big feminist thing. It just ended up being wrong.
2) As the Hat-tip link points out, that is not even in the ball park of how Britney Spears looks. She is at the hind end of two kids and an imploding mairrage. I am amazed that Photoshop science has…