America, America, This Is You

We're not usually the type to agree with the boomers who rant about how our youth are being polluted by a society that abuses sex in pop culture, but when seven-year-olds are behaving exactly like people do in the worst of rap videos, we have to admit that perhaps there's something to that argument.

Don't watch the video below if you don't want to begin your day with something awfully depressing.

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» From Bad To Worse For Kwame Kilpatrick

From CNN: "After spending a night in jail, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick faces new felony charges even as a judge ruled Friday that he could go free if he wears a tracking device and doesn't leave town… Kilpatrick's lawyers are negotiating his surrender on charges of assaulting or obstructing two police officers who attempted to serve a subpoena, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said. If convicted, Kilpatrick could face up to two years in prison, Cox told reporters. He also would be unable to serve as mayor. "In almost 20 years as a prosecutor and now as attorney general, I cannot recall one case where someone has assaulted a police officer who was attempting to serve a subpoena," Cox said."

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» $5 Footlongs Make You Do Crazy Things

A Jacksonville, Fla., man was so perturbed workers at Subway were not making his sandwich correctly, he called 911. This was after he was locked out of the store for yelling at employees. Police arrived, and after trying to calm him down and explain the proper use of 911, they ended up arresting him for making false 911 calls. A good sandwich is hard to find. [C&D]

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The furor surrounding by R. Kelly's trial and subsequent acquittal has died down, and, although one might have hoped that R. Kelly wouldn't be seen or heard from for a long time, that's not the case. He's back with a bunch of leaked tracks and a new, upcoming album, 12 Play: 4th Quarter. MTV describes some of the tracks for us, and they are singularly about sex, of course:

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flavorflavsex.jpgIf 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]

busharroyo.jpgOur 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.

ncwine.jpgNaomi 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.

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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]

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sugeknight.jpg• 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]

zeigler.jpgOh, 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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tyrafreak.jpgOn 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]

gw.jpgTHIS 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]

Whatever Happened To Wanting To Be A Fireman?

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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]

Sick Humor

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]



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