![]() Christian Science Monitor | Sanctioned and isolated, Iran boldly bans the Simpsons Christian Science Monitor Following a ban on Barbies, Iran's ban on the Simpsons is part of a soft culture war that can mean only one thing. We're just not sure what it is. By Scott Baldauf, Staff Writer / February 7, 2012 You're the leader of a pariah nation. Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children? 'Simpsons' Toys Banned in Iran |
<em>RuPaul's Drag Race</em> Recap: The Queens Take The Wrestling Ring Huffington Post (blog) "Princess is giving closed captioning while [Jiggly's] in stereo," Willam jokes. I will not lie to you, I am really coming around to her. She's kind of hilarious. As is the beloved Sharon Needles, who really shows her versatility in this episode, ... |
What Elizabeth Taylor Did For Women's Rights New York Times Almost 20 years ago, Lord came into the public eye with her book “Forever Barbie,” an exploration of Mattel's bodacious Barbie doll — the long-legged, narrow-hipped toy, endowed with “shocking torpedo orbs,” that has held children (and others) in ... |
Barbie: Bald and beautiful? The Student Printz If molding children's self-confidence isn't reason enough, try the usage of Barbie to teach tolerance to those children who are happy and healthy and make jokes at the expense of those who are not. Many Facebook users and myself agree, if children's ... |
GOP politics versus the joke candidate Washington Post One little girl in a pink Barbie ensemble wanders off to start beating a drum. Campaign aides glance nervously at her. Across town, students are lining up to touch the hem of Colbert's robe. Put another way: One man packed the yard and earned ... |
![]() Daily Mail | Bad Barbie: Emma Roberts does some serious damage to the squeaky-clean doll's ... Daily Mail And now it's Barbie who has been given the Tyler Shields treatment, one that is sure to have Mattel bosses seething. But Tyler defiantly jokes: '[Barbie] was on time for our shoot and super willing to get wild! 'She expressed to me her interest in ... |
![]() Bleacher Report | WWE: Refelections of 6 Social Stigmas Bleacher Report Secondly, the jokes on homosexuality have hardly ever been funny. All the alpha male syndrome has achieved in promos is to insult some people around the world. However, the interesting development reported by Glullo in his article is the emergence of a ... |
MORAL PERIL AND THE BARBIE PEDDLERS MiamiHerald.com (blog) This might explain all the Barbies with no heads. *SNORK* @ meanie - continuing to kill w/ head jokes! Mr. Rogers: "Can you say 'hip-o-crit'"? They don't want "western influences", yet will sell toy versions of the alleged drone they caught? |
Revolutionary vision: Vincent van Gogh pushed and pulled viewers into the ... phillyBurbs.com Before long, there were stage plays, abundant dark jokes about severed ears, and a funny scene from the movie “Manhattan” in which a character snootily pronounces his name “van Gock.” Somebody theorized the glimmering haloes in his paintings were ... |
![]() Straight.com | News for Youse: God hates Tebow, Barbie banned in Iran, and Deepak comes to town Straight.com It's been a tough weekend; God forsook Tim Tebow and apparently comedy abandoned Ricky Gervais (although we liked the Norbit and “tiny penis” jokes). We also saw the end of Russia's Zeppo Marx–like Phobos-Grunt probe, which finally fell to earth on ... |
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