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I LOVE Alanis and I’m so happy that she’s doing so well in life.

When Chelsea mentions that there’s a day in Canada named after Alanis, she asks, “What do people do on that day? Do they just start screaming at their ex-boyfriends?” ROFL. Chelsea Handler cracks me up.

Poor Aquaman. DC Comics has sure put him through a number of doozies over the years. You HAVE to check out this comic history of Aquaman’s multiple origin stories. Here’s a small sample:

I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with Benjamin Godfre. But I am smitten. (Click here for my numerous previous posts.) Today I decided to post the newest photos from Benjamin’s fantastic modeling career. Specifically, I tried to focus the gallery on Benjamin’s bulge and booty. Enjoy!

A very special gallery of Benjamin’s sexy booty and bulge after the jump

Rick Malambri is a hot 28 year-old actor who is getting a lot of attention right now because of his starring role in Step Up 3D. He’s done some modeling, most notably for A&F and Da Man magazine. I was already planning on going to see Step Up 3D this weekend, but now I have added incentive. Yum!

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Lots of great shots of this sexy dancer after the jump

From the web site, I’m Voting Tea Party:

+ The Tea Party might have a quasi-mainstream official platform, but it also seems to be a magnet for far right loonies, angry racists, borderline psychotics and those that are simply grossly misinformed.

+ These shirts are for those fringe nutjobs that make the Tea Party rallies so much fun to read about.

Here are a few of my favorite t-shirt designs:

Lots and lots of spoilers contained within this review. You’ve been warned.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is stylistically awesome. Imagine 1960′s Batman TV show meets 1980s Nintendo meets 2000′s Guitar Hero. Another way of describing the movie is: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, now with added super powers. Some of my friends have complained that it was too overt or too over the top with the video game references. But that’s what I liked most about it.

Michael Cera plays the same role he plays in every movie: an awkward dork who doesn’t know how to act around girls. Normally I’d be bored silly with him being typecast yet again. But I was okay with it this time because it was so over the top, keeping with the rest of the movie.

Just like Nick and Norah, this movie has prominent gay characters. In both movies, the gay characters seem the most grounded and give the soundest advice. One way Pilgrim surpasses its Cera-predecessor is that there is an actual gay kiss, something that Nick and Norah’s lacked to my dismay. In Nick and Norah’s, Michael Cera’s fellow band members were entirely gay, and he was very comfortable with being surrounded by gay guys. I liked this story line a lot.

In Scott Pilgrim, Cera’s roommate (played by Kieran Culkin) is gay and they share a bed together in a tiny apartment. The directors never feel the need to address this situation or explain it to the audience. It’s just an accepted fact that contributes to the quirky tone. The cohabitation gets even funnier as the movie progresses and more men begin to share the same bed. Even then, it’s not addressed or treated as unusual. And there’s never an implication that Cera’s character is gay or bi-curious. He’s completely fine sharing a bed with a gay roommate (and his gay roommate’s “friends”) without it challenging his heterosexuality. Major kudos to the filmmakers for making a statement on the friendships gay men and straight men are capable of sharing — That a gay guy can be a straight guy’s friend without trying to get in his pants.

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Rumors of Social Security’s demise are greatly exaggerated. But some powerful people keep spreading lies about the program to scare people into accepting benefit cuts. Can you check out this list of Social Security myths and share it with your friends, family and coworkers?

Myth: Social Security is going broke.

Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.3 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a ‘T’). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.1 After 2037, it’ll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits–and again, that’s without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers retirement decades ago.2 Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.

Myth: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.

Reality: This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than did 70 years ago.3 What’s more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly–since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.4 But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.

Myth: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.

Reality: Social Security doesn’t need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here’s a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.5 Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.6 But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.

Myth: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs

Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn’t full of IOUs, it’s full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.7 The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market–which would have been disastrous–but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.

Myth: Social Security adds to the deficit

Reality: It’s not just wrong — it’s impossible! By law, Social Security funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can’t add one penny to the deficit.1

References and Sources after the jump

via Explosm

My friend Jim sent this to me and it’s a mix of 40% wrong, 50% OMG, and 10% intriguing. I may or may not respond…

Thank you, Anderson, for being a real reporter and demanding evidence from this nutjob.