If Flavor Flav is to be believed — and I can’t think of any concrete reasons why he shouldn’t… or should — he has been somehow convincing women to have sexual intercourse with him since he was six years old. The early start explains how he ended up with many damn kids. It doesn’t explain much else, though.

Complex: Where did you lose your virginity?

Flavor Flav: Where did I lose my virginity? I lost my virginity in the bushes on a box.

Complex: Really?

Flavor Flav: Yea, in the bushes on a box. A girl and me were having sex on a box in the bushes, in some big tall bushes.

Complex: How uh…when was this?

Flavor Flav: This was when I was real, real, real, real, young.

Complex: Like elementary school? Or middle school?

Flavor Flav: Nah, I’m a tell you the truth; I lost my virginity when I was 6 years old.

Earlier in the interview, Flavor Flav reveals that his favorite thing to barbecue is “shrimps.” Too bad he already has a fiancee… [Complex]

Our President with Filipino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the White House today discussing “Phillipine-Americans:”

PRESIDENT BUSH: Madam President, it is a pleasure to welcome you back to the Oval Office. We have just had a very constructive dialogue. First, I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that — in which there’s a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the — of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House. (Laughter.)

PRESIDENT ARROYO: Yes.

PRESIDENT BUSH: And the chef is a great person and a really good cook, by the way, Madam President.

PRESIDENT ARROYO: Thank you.

Naomi Campbell’s agent surely has a nightmare job that few of us could imagine, but, still, she could probably do better than this. Here’s the rep’s two-pronged explanation for why a seemingly wasted-beyond-belief Campbell was snapped passed out in the middle of the street in Italy the other night.

“It was just a bit of fun and not down to drink. Naomi was playing this trust game, where you fall into a friend’s arms. It’s very hot there, so that could also have had something to do with it.”

True, heat and “trust games” are not a good mix. Especially when you throw in copious amounts of controlled substances.

Not in two whole decades — since February of 1986, to be exact — have we seen the unemployment rate in this country take as big of a jump in one month as it did in May. The unemployment rate shot up from 5 percent in April to 5.5 percent in May, the highest it’s been since October of 2004. An economist from Wachovia said the abnormal leap has more to do with the Labor Department underestimating how high the unemployment rate has been for the past few months than anything else. Basically, it’s been this bad for three months, the statistics just haven’t showed it. So far this year, the economy has cost Americans 324,000 jobs. To top it all off, there’s no recovery immediately ahead. [CNN]

• Suge Knight got beaten up outside a club in LA. He was apparently unconscious for three minutes. Someone really strong, fearless dude in LA just became a local hero. [TMZ]

• I fear for our youth. [PH]

• Toni Braxton’s Vegas show is canceled through June, but her reps won’t comment on her health issues. [EUR]

• Black Canadians love them some Obama. [TS]

• Okay, okay. Black people in general love them some Obama. [CL]

Oh, NYPD. What are we going to do with you. Right on the heels of a racial profiling lawsuit from a NY Post reporter (although his paper doesn’t believe racial profiling exists), the Sean Bell disaster, and a report questioning the racial imbalance of the police force’s stop-and-search technique, two white, plain-clothes officers are in deep trouble after ordering an off-duty black officer, who happens to be the highest-ranking black officer in the NYPD, out of his car. Needless to say, they didn’t recognize him.

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On yesterday’s episode of The Tyra Banks Show — titled “How Freaky Are We?” — some crazy guy asked a slew of audience members to stand on him. This went on for a good five minutes before Tyra moved on to other important subjects, such as a woman who wears diapers, pees in them and then has her boyfriend change her.

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ANOTHER BUSH SUCCESS A billion-dollar-a-year education initiative, which our dear president insisted be included in No Child Left Behind, aimed at improving the reading skills of low-income children has not actually improved the reading skills of low-income children. Reading First “program did not increase the percentages of students in grades one, two or three whose reading comprehension scores were at or above grade level,” according to a report mandated by Congress. Like most Bush initiatives, Reading First fell victim to typical cronyism. Perhaps it should have been called Cronies First, Reading Second. [NYT]

THIS IS IMPRESSIVE It is official. George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern history, or at least since we’ve been taking approval polls. A whopping 71 percent of Americans think Bush sucks. Just 71 percent? “No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president’s disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark,” said Keating Holland, CNN’s polling director. Some perspective: During the Watergate scandal, Nixon’s disapproval rating topped off at 66 percent. [CNN]

Latarian Milton is a very, very naughty 7-year-old who is sure to become closely acquainted with the Florida Juvenile Penitentiary System sometime in the future. Milton stole his grandmother’s SUV and took it for a joy ride with a friend of his who “smokes cigarettes,” driving a few miles down busy roads until he got into the inevitable car crash. If this video on CNN of young Latarian explaining his crime was fictional, it would probably be funny. But since it’s not, it’s just really, really sad.

When asked why he wanted to drive his grandmother’s car around town, he said, “I wanted to do it because it’s fun — fun to to do bad things.” He also said that he knows that someone could have gotten hurt, “but [he] wanted to do hoodrat stuff with [his] friend.” His suggested punishment for himself? “Just a little bit. No video games for a whole weekend.” Yes, and I suggest his grandmother permanently remove Grand Theft Auto from his collection.

Police are trying to come up with some form of punishment or assistance besides jail, which he’s too young for, because he obviously “needs some help.” Yes, our young people need some serious help. [C&D]

Damon Wayans is responsible for the latest in a disturbing trend of abortion-trivializing stunts. This skit from his comedy channel, wayout.tv, features a super hero named Abortion Man stalking a pregnant teenager and literally beating the fetus out of her at the request of her teenage boyfriend. Hilarious. Why doesn’t this guy get more work these days? [WAOD]

Brave New Films asks an important question of all of us: What would you do with $3 trillion dollars? George W. Bush started an awful war with that amount, but that’s not the only option, trust me!

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT A Denver man was arrested after he went to the video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her, and knocked over video displays. The beef? I would love to tell you they were arguing over which college their four year old would attend, but the dispute was really over which gang the young child would eventually join. The man, who is Hispanic, wanted their kid to be a Westside Baller, and the black girlfriend thought, naturally, that their kid should be a Crip. “They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised,” said Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval. “Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would ‘claim.’” Are you going to call social services, Sgt. Sandoval, or should I? [EUR]

It’s anything for a buck with Bobby Brown. Can’t sell a record. Can’t keep a reality show on air. What else is he to do but write what sounds to be a mean-spirited tell all about his life with Whitney Houston? Of course, he starts off the book by blaming Whitney for all the drugs.

“I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice,” Brown writes in “Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But,” out next month. “At one point in my life, I used drugs uncontrollably. I was using everything I could get my hands on, from cocaine to heroin, weed and cooked cocaine [Is that what we're calling it now? -- Lauren].”

Brown paints himself as the mostly innocent party in the relationship. He married Whitney for her love, he said. She married him because she was in the midst of a bisexual scandal — there were rumors that she was sleeping with her female assistant — and needed a high profile relationship. That certainly doesn’t explain why she stayed with his ass for so long.

“[The marriage] was doomed from the very beginning. Within the first year we separated, with several more to follow,” Brown writes. “I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married . . . I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children.”

Oh, wait. Did I say innocent?

“I am guilty of sleeping with other women . . . Women are always throwing themselves at you. I’m only human, so I would make the mistake and bite the hook sometimes . . . I let the testosterone take over.”

One of his most public indiscretions was an affair with former exotic dancer Karrine “Superhead” Steffans. “Yes, I’ve slept with her,” he confesses. “Yes, I’ve spent several nights at her house. But she was only good for what her nickname stood for.”

Well, that’s better than being good for nothing, I suppose.

There’s no question as to why wealthy people tend to live longer — they obviously have more money for health care, a balanced diet, and gym memberships, they live in safer neighborhoods, and they are less likely to smoke cigarettes — but the nation’s affluent have made such great gains in their life expectancy rates that the life expectancy gap between the haves and have nots continues to grow wider. All the best efforts of health professionals to eliminate health disparities among people of different incomes, races, and ethnicities have not yielded the results they’d hoped for.

After 20 years, the lowest socioeconomic group lagged further behind the most affluent, Dr. Singh said, noting that “life expectancy was higher for the most affluent in 1980 than for the most deprived group in 2000.”

“If you look at the extremes in 2000,” Dr. Singh said, “men in the most deprived counties had 10 years’ shorter life expectancy than women in the most affluent counties (71.5 years versus 81.3 years).” The difference between poor black men and affluent white women was more than 14 years (66.9 years vs. 81.1 years).

Even among people with insurance, there are still the obvious racial health disparities that we hear about all of the time.