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Can we talk about Lindsay Lohan's fashion debut with Ungaro?


I rarely talk about fashion in this blog but after a week of Roman Polanski and John Phillips pervscapades, I think we need to turn our heads to Paris France and look at what's ruffling the feathers of the fashion world thanks to Lindsay Lohan.

Yes, I am making a connection between two rapist pedophiles (one of them also being incestual), an up-and-coming fashion designer and Lindsay Lohan. Bear with me.

When it was announced several weeks ago that La Lohan was going to work as "artistic advisor", the fashion world exploded in disbelief. Tim Gunn, bless him, went on record as saying, “It’s got to be a publicity stunt!” ...“Or a crack-smoking board of directors?”

This was not going to go like Stella McCarthey working for Chloe. Lindsay Lohan's twitter stream is notorious for how it shows her inability to writer properly. This is a girl from the white-collar working class of Long Island with no formal education and a present by a recent regrettable past.

There's the shots of her pantiless crotch while disembarking cars. There's the endless parties drowned in alcohol and cocaine which some say were cover for her mother's addictions. There's the alleged new penchant for meth. There's the bulimia and anorexia. There's the nymphomania. There's the mother trying to shove her down deep into the closet throwing her into the arms of men when she only wanted to be with gals. There's the revolving door rehabbing. There's the promise of a young actor now shattered by her inability to move from child/teen sensation to being an actual adult movie star.

So why in the bloody hell would she be hired for this? On the surface it would make sense to thinkk about the publicty since Mounir Moufarrige, the chief executive of Ungaro has said so himself : his main goal in hiring Ms. Lohan was to generate publicity, he said he also believes she will excite consumers. Yet check out the following quote from the same article (emphasis mine):
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Estrella Archs and Lindsay Lohan
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Note to Oprah: WTF?!?!

The Oscars - Karyn Bryant and Oprah Winfrey

We've come a long way in this country when a black woman can talk about her obscene wealth in such a nonchalant way. From Gawker - Oprah Advises Grads: Get a Private Jet, Losers - Oprah:

"It's great to have a nice home. It's great to have nice homes! It's great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara," she told the students. "It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you."

Really Oprah, really?

Ok, so she also encouraged the kids at Duke to give back. But still, you gotta wonder what was the thought process behind that. Or am I reading too much into her love for her Global Express XRS?

What do you think?

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Charlie Rangel's political cojones

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Oh no he didn't! :

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) has long advocated returning to the draft, but his efforts drew little attention during the 12 years that House Democrats were in the minority. Starting in January, however, he will chair the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. Yesterday he said "you bet your life" he will renew his drive for a draft.

"I will be introducing that bill as soon as we start the new session," Rangel said on CBS's "Face the Nation." He portrayed the draft, suspended since 1973, as a means of spreading military obligations more equitably and prompting political leaders to think twice before starting wars.

"There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way," said Rangel, a Korean War veteran. "If we're going to challenge Iran and challenge North Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops to Iraq, we can't do that without a draft."

What do I think about Rangel's move? It takes balls.

Big.

HUGE.

GINORMOUS

COJONES,
to try to push this on Congress, needless to say, the American public.
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