Gawker claims to have seen video of Rob Ford using crack cocaine pipe
A published report says a video that appears to show Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine is being shopped around by a group of men allegedly involved in the drug trade.
There was no way to verify the video, however, which was the subject of a report on Gawker on Thursday and then became the subject of numerous stories.
The Toronto Star said two of its reporters watched the video and said it appears to show Ford in a room, sitting in a chair, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe.
A story on the Star website Friday also alleges Ford makes several disparaging and crude remarks about Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and the high school football team he coaches.
A lawyer retained by Ford, Dennis Morris, told the newspaper that Thursday’s publication by the Gawker website of some details related to the video was “false and defamatory.”
In case you missed this last night, because this is definitely not one to miss.
We’re just going to post it straight up from the press release, no editing: “In the new animated comedy series Mike Tyson Mysteries, Mike Tyson is taking the fight from the boxing ring to the streets… by solving mysteries! Armed with a magical tattoo on his face and a trusty associate by his side — a talking pigeon — if you have a problem that needs solving, Iron Mike is in your corner. The series incorporates live-action appearances featuring Mighty Mike himself, and the gloves come off as the former heavyweight champ and his fowl-mouthed partner gear up for weekly adventures as they put unsolved mysteries — like how to defeat a super computer at chess or why a famous author/werewolf can’t finish his novel — down for the count. Animated quarter-hour from Warner Bros Animation.” (photo by Brian Birzer/via Wikimedia Commons)
The Comcast-owned MSNBC will be the subject of a protest next week at the cable giant’s annual shareholders meeting in Philadelphia.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a Tea Party group invited 60,000 activists to show up at the meeting to accuse the network of masquerading left-leaning propaganda as news.
Wait, so does this mean they aren’t aware of the same criticism lobbed against Fox News… except from the other side?
University of Wyoming Police have issued a citation to Meg Lanker-Simons for a charge of interference. According to the citation “Subject admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it.”
An anonymous statement posted to the UW Crushes Facebook page last week caused a controversy. The post stated that the author would like to copulate with Lanker-Simons in an angry manner. At the time, Lanker-Simons came out publicly against the post saying that she had felt threatened by it and perceived the post as a rape-threat.
University of Wyoming spokesperson Chad Baldwin said that the citation was the result of UW Police Department’s investigation into the UW Crushes Facbook incident, but could not comment further.Update: More information is available here.
Um, not sure what happened, but based on a search, Meg (who runs the popular Cognitive Dissonance Tumblr) ended up having to take down her site temporarily. But Fox Nation picked this up, so now it’s going crazy. *whew*
What a gas: Back in 1925, the U.S. government started a giant helium reserve, assuming that it would be essential to our military forces, which we correctly assumed would be made up of thousands of zeppelins like the one shown above. Instead, it became a key element of birthday parties nationwide, with much of that thin air being supplied by the federal government. In recent years, numerous presidents have tried to get rid of the Federal Helium Program, with President Clinton signing a law in 1996 to eventually shut it down. But there’s a problem: Nobody in the private sector has stepped up to replace the program, leading to members of the House recently voting to keep the program going for a few more years. In other words, the private sector is high on the government’s supply.
Yeah, so this just happened.
I don’t know
This ricin thing is secretly the greatest thing that ever happened to this guy.
School Fires Gay Teacher After Her Partner’s Name Appears In Her Mother’s Obituary
“If it wouldn’t have been for my mom’s obituary and my partner’s name being Julie and not Chris or Pat or whomever, I wouldn’t be in this situation right now. It would be Wednesday, 8th period, badminton tournament.”
So Paul Kevin Curtis, the suspect in the ricin mailing incidents (one to a Sen. Roger Wicker; one to President Obama), fancies himself a musician in that sort of broken, home-spun way you might remember from such films as “The Foot Fist Way.” I know what you’re thinking: “SFB, Danny McBride didn’t sing in ‘The Foot Fist Way!’” Well, as it turns out, this guy is also a master of martial arts, based on his Twitter profile pic. (Also, he sort of made it obvious it was probably the same person, using the same phrasing on social media as he did in the tainted letters he sent.) Above is a video of him singing the Prince classic “Little Red Corvette” to a room of terrified students. (ht Dave Weigel)
Tucker Carlson did a little fishing in Central Park today.
I had no idea you could fish in Central Park - this guys you can - he said he works in the media - anyone know him? twitter.com/JoeyBoots/stat
— Joey Boots (@JoeyBoots)I should have my Tucker Carlson Fly-Fishing in Central Park video up in about a half hour - standby. twitter.com/JoeyBoots/stat
— Joey Boots (@JoeyBoots)
Central Park, the hub of Tucker Carlson fly fishing.
Update: Rep. Steve Cohen pretended to be “hot” for Cyndi Lauper just to draw attention to Memphis music. “It was all a ruse. I knew by deleting it they would run it, it would give it news, give it life. That was the hook.” Congratulations, buddy. You made the media give a quarter of a crap about a scooplet.
Watch: PCB gets a visual shout out on GMA’s Yahoo/Tumblr...
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
Congrats Tumblr!
Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
In 2007, I was...
I started tumblr when I was at one of the lowest points of...
Take Bitcoins, remove the secretive nature of said coins, add e-commerce that doesn’t involve illicit drugs, and Jeff Bezos’ bald head while you’re making the order, and you have Amazon Coins. Or as your parents called it, Flooz.
This a car bumper that was sliced open by a flying ipad.
File under: Things that actually happened.
Just call it a hood ornament.
The Digestion Song
If you’re looking for the definitive video explaining the science of the digestive system, here it is.
Or something?
I kinda feel like I’m on drugs while watching this.
(via velutican618 on YouTube)
Still digesting the insanity of this clip.
I’m not going to rule out anything right now.Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott ”bqhatevwr” Brown • Suggesting that a senate run in New Hampshire was a real possibility for him. He made the statement in the Granite State homestead of Nashua—the first of four visits to the state in the next five weeks. Current Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is up for reelection in 2014. source
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