Showing All "Poverty" Posts
Jan 14th 41 Comments
Let's start the day with some good news, FOR ONCE. From the AP:
MUMBAI, India - "Slumdog Millionaire" child star Rubina Ali played a poverty-stricken child in the Oscar-winning film, but the…   Read Story »
Oct 29th, 2009 45 Comments
As you may or may not know, I am not a fan of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Personally, I think that it is a condescending and exploitative after-school-special to make white people feel better…   Read Story »
Oct 12th, 2009 51 Comments
I am completely on board with this. Because on the one hand, I hate world hunger. HATE IT! I know that's not a very popular thing to say around here, where everyone is so pro-world hunger it's…   Read Story »
Oct 1st, 2009 34 Comments
I know that sometimes my diamond shoes can get too tight, but sometimes it takes a really :( news story to remind you just HOW tight diamond shoes can really get. Like this one, in which a man in…   Read Story »
Jul 22nd, 2009 32 Comments
I will give the children of NYC Prep this: they are very poised and "adult" on camera. High school students are, for the most part, sloppy spazz-attacks, flailing around all over the place with their…   Read Story »
Jul 15th, 2009 25 Comments
When the women of the Real Housewives, or anyone on any VH1 show ever, are forced into bizarre social situations (think the traditional final episode dinner party on Housewives, or the Real Chance at…   Read Story »
Jul 1st, 2009 20 Comments
Sorry guys, we have to do the 2009 Academy Awards again, we messed up. After we KILL HITLER, let's point the Time Machine to last February and give all the Oscars to Bollywood He-Man and the Masters…   Read Story »
Jun 10th, 2009 10 Comments
Remember how two of the Slumdog Millionaire children have had their homes razed in the past month? Well in what appears to be the first good thing that has happened to any of them since they had the…   Read Story »
Jun 5th, 2009 12 Comments
Rubina Ali, the adorable little girl from Slumdog Millionaire, is writing a book! About her life! Um, she is nine years old! From the AP:
Transworld Publishers said Rubina Ali's book will tell the…   Read Story »
May 21st, 2009 14 Comments
Gwyneth Paltrow stirred. A lilac scented breeze pushed gently at the diaphanous curtains of her castle aerie (two servants stood beneath her castle window, one waving a giant palm frond as the other…   Read Story »




















