This Just Break My Heart...

After an Indian newspaper printed cute heartwarming photos of Ram Singh Munda and his pet sloth bear (the bear looks like it is smiling!), wildlife officials incarcerated him and took the bear. Munda found the abandoned cub last year and adopted and cared for it. Now Munda is in jail, Munda’s daughter was sent to boarding school, and the bear is locked in a zoo where he refuses to eat. Somebody do something!

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/448754

Genetics At Work

Presenting Will Smith and Diddy: The Next Generation.

Bump It Up

Ashlee Simpson sporting the hippie look and a baby bump... now that I look more carefully, is she wearing a wig?

Is That Serious? She Must Have Lost A Bet

Colin Firth and his wife, producer Livia Giuggioli, attended the Mamma Mia! premiere in London, and while he looked quite dapper, I'm having a bit of a struggle handling Livia's get up. It just goes from bad...to worse when you see the back. It looks like a shiny yellow garbage bag with a smile on it and the back looks like a costume... for real.

Single White Female Syndrome?

Kate Beckinsale slowly but surely seems to be turning into another skinny Brit brunette, Victoria Beckham. This picture of the two mommies show them looking almost identical: Same black top, same straight dark hair...

Victoria Beckham must have this power over her friends... remember how Katie Holmes slowly started to morph? VB is a cult, I say!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1361754.ece

Want To Be Kanye?

Always wanted to release the superstar within you? Now you can, with Be Kanye. Call now. This is clearly an ad for something, and it’s not a powder that turns you into Kanye West. Vodka? I seriously don't get it... but this has got to be a set up for something. Between the strange tiger and the 80s style graphics, I'm sufficiently weirded out.

Getting Someone's Coffee? Sexist?

My monthly "legal" entry here for you... Now, have you heard about the case of Tamara Klopfenstein? Ms. Klopfenstein was hired to be a receptionist/data entry clerk. After working for a few weeks, her (male) bosses asked her to get their coffee for them. She declined, and her manager e-mailed her, saying: "This is not open for debate. Please don’t make an easy task a big deal." Klopfenstein felt that getting coffee "reinforced outdated gender stereotypes," so the next day, when she was asked to get coffee again, she sent an e-mail that read: "I don't expect to serve and wait on you by making and serving you coffee every day." Nine minutes later, she was fired.

Klopfenstein promptly sued the company for sexual discrimination and sexual harassment. The judge ruled: "The act of getting coffee is not, by itself, a gender-specific act," and dismissed the case. But Klopfenstein's attorneys argue that "Some tasks are inherently more offensive to women." As one site points out, "Getting coffee, much like sexualizing women by making them wear short skirts or heels, is undeniably a way that men in male dominated workspaces have demeaned women, putting them in their place as servants or housewives (or sex objects) as opposed to professionals." One one hand, you've got to wonder if a male receptionist would be asked to fetch coffee. On the other hand, don't most jobs include things not listed in the job description?

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202422158304