From the YouTube description: 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. But how much is 1.4 billion, really? That is 1 in every 5 people on this earth live in poverty. Statistics like…   Read Story »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »