• Updated: Possumfoot stalks the forests of Georgia ...
  
  That so-called Bigfoot corpse I mentioned earlier this week, the one supposedly found by two hikers in Georgia? I know this will be a big shock, but it's all a hoax:
  

  This was no hoax, (the two hikers) insisted, despite the fake video interview they did with Whitton's brother - or as they pretended on YouTube, taxonomist Dr. Paul Van Buren...
  
  In an interview with Scientific American, Jeffrey Meldrum, a Bigfoot researcher and Idaho State University professor, dismissed the photos. "It just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect," he said...
  
  As for the DNA evidence, the men presented an e-mail from the University of Minnesota reporting that of the three distinct DNA sequences that showed up, one was inconclusive, one was human and the third was from a possum.




• This is what happens when an unstoppable idiot meets and immovable moron:

  
  Ah, yes, the unfathomable value of a formal education. The screaming harpy in the clip above is Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley and the flailing douchebag is Bill Shanahan ... and both of them are college debate coaches. Really. And this is how they demonstrate for their students the proper way for grown-ups to engage in civil discourse.




• She's here to stay.
  
  Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (you might have seen her in House of Sand and Fog or The Exorcism of Emily Rose) has decided to stay in America and never return to her native Iran:
  

  Aghdashloo insists she and her family have no plans to return after having embraced American culture - because she says Iranians resent her success in Hollywood.
  
  She says, "Their repressed Muslim government hates the fact that I am an actress. But they still all see my movies, even though my films are not allowed to be shown there."

  
  Welcome home, Miss Aghdashloo.



• Tropical boycott:
  
  Ben Stiller's latest film is stirring up controversy because of references in the film to mentally handicapped people:
  

  Paramount and its DreamWorks unit showed the film to advocates for the disabled, many of whom had expressed outrage at marketing materials that showed Ben Stiller, the movie’s star and director, portraying a weak-minded character named Simple Jack.
  
  “I saw the film this morning,” said Andrew J. Imparato, president of the American Association of People with Disabilities, one group calling for the boycott. “It was even worse than the hateful stuff they used in promoting it.”

  
  Well, I've always said that boycotts are for retards.
  
  OK, OK, I apologize. I couldn't resist. But I do think that boycotts are usually nothing more than a pitiful attempt to attract attention ... and that goes for groups I'm peripherally part of, such as when some Christians called for a boycott of The Last Temptation of Christ.
  
  By the way, I recommend skipping The Last Temptation ... it's the only genuinely crappy film that Martin Scorsese has ever made.
  
  Anyway, back to Tropic Thunder. Here's a clip of the offending subject matter:

  
  Oh, I don't know. I think the movie really aims to mock the way that Hollywood types are superficial, full of themselves and stupid. I don't think that people with mental disabilities are really the target at all. The point here is to show us that, for all their Oscar-speech pontifications and cause celeb rantings, movie stars are really vacuous and dumb.
  
  But that's just my take. You can read more about it at Good News Film Reviews, where I found the clip I embedded above.




• Tim Fluffer...
  
  Virginia's thoroughly indistinguishable Governor, Tim Kaine, wants to be Vice President so bad that he's appointed himself Barak Obama's fluffer:

  
  Read that quote so you can really consider it:
  

  "It was a bad crisis for the world. It required tough words but also a smart approach to call on the international community to step in. And I’m very, very happy that the Senator’s request for a ceasefire has been complied with by President Medvedev."

  
  
  That's right, Obama waved his hand and parted the sea of discontentment in Georgia.
  
  Hat tip for that to Unseen, who mentioned Kaine's understanding of what's happening in Georgia in a comment here.
  
  It's really going to be funny around this time next year when President Obama has shown his supporters that, SURPRISE! He really CAN'T make things all better. They'll be turning on him like rabid rats and I'll just sit here and laaaaaaaugh.....

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