Best of the week: Playing Doctor. An Arizona man who allegedly stole the identity of a San Francisco physician and posed as a doctor running a West Los Angeles sperm bank was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two men.
Jeffrey Lynn Graybill (40) is accused of pretending to be "Dr. Robert Richardson" and soliciting sperm donors for the nonexistent Fertility Clinic of West Los Angeles. Investigators believe that there may be more than two dozen other victims in California and Arizona.
Although he had no medical license, Graybill allegedly advertised himself as a physician through internet listings on Craigslist and solicited potential clients, offering up to $4,000 monthly for sperm donations for "stem cell and other research."
Graybill, a property manager, had been trained as an emergency medical technician and used leftover medical equipment such as a stethoscope and blood pressure monitor to convince men that he was a doctor. He arranged to meet the first victim at the man's home, the second at an apartment Graybill managed. No, that's not a tip off... After Graybill failed to pay the men, one of them filed a complaint with Los Angeles police in June, triggering the investigation. Phoenix police also are investigating Graybill in connection with several similar assaults on men there. Prosecutors have charged Graybill with 11 felonies, including practicing medicine without certification, identity theft, sexual penetration and sexual battery by fraud.
Also: Seriously, WTF?The folks at the Wisconsin Tourism Federation couldn't possibly have seen how the interweb would change the lingo when it was established in 1979. But now that it's been pointed out, the lobbying coalition had to rethink using an acronym in the logo. To most anyone online, WTF has a different meaning these days...and probably not the kind of thing you want visitors thinking about when they think Wisconsin.
A quick check of the tourism board's website, and lo and behold, they've bowed to pressure and changed their name to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin. The old logo lives on, however, at the Internet Archive. No word on the actions of the World Taekwando Federation.
And: Death from above!
The public information leaflets dropped by the C130 Hercules over a rural area came in boxes designed to open in mid-air, thereby scattering the leaflets over a wide range. But on June 23rd, they didn't. The box failed to break apart in mid-air and landed on top of the girl who died later in hospital. Oops! The British Ministry of Defence apologized for the actions of the Royal Air Force and is carrying out a full investigation. And here's a little history for you:
Leaflets have been used by militaries since at least the Napoleonic wars, when the British navy dropped them over France using kites. And they continue to be employed, because leaflets have some advantages over other media. Radio and TV are fine if the audience happen to be tuned in at the time, but printed matter is durable.
As the U.S. Army’s Psychological Operations Field Manual explains, "A printed leaflet has the advantage that it can be passed from person to person without the message being altered. It can convey a complex message which can be reinforced with pictures if the recipient is illiterate. And a leaflet can be hidden and read in private, and shared around with others."
Delivery methods have ranged from artillery and mortar shells to loose airdrop by hand to “leaflet landmines.” The M129E1/E2 Psychological Operations Leaflet Bomb weighs 200 pounds and can disperse some 60,000 to 80,000 leaflets which are scattered by a length of detonator cord.
Worst of the week: American Idolatry
If only they would disappear like the Sideshow Bob looking Justin...but they don't. And just like J. Butt and her husband Skeletor, Jennifer Hudson acts like she's the first person to ever have a kid, but she's making ridiculous assumptions, like he could be following in her singing footsteps.
"He seems like he's very interested in music already," she told Us Magazine. "The other night he was having a fit and screaming and sometimes when I play music, he will just calm down. I was exactly the same way." When she put on "Let It Be" — a tune she recorded with Rod Stewart — Hudson said her son "literally just shut down. It was like he just gradually fell asleep." Sometimes when he cries, she adds, "I try to harmonize!"
Though he was born Aug. 10, her son already "does a whole lot," she said. "He's turning over, he lifts his head up, he's trying to hold his own bottles! Sometimes I swear he talking to me — or trying to. I think he's a very rare newborn. He's the cutest thing in the world, I promise you."
Listen, cow, that chip off the fat block is an eating, sleeping, shitting, crying machine - no different than any other. Next time you open that piehole, just go back to shoving food in there and keep the retarded comments to a minimum. Like zero.
But the bar-non dumbest thing said was by E! on-line news.
“Adam Lambert is like a modern-day Braveheart.”
In no world that we live in, under any circumstance, could there be a single, possible correlation between Adam "Cupcake" Lambert and William "Braveheart" Wallace. There's not even a tie between Lambert and Mel Gibson. That those words were ever written have brought society one step closer to ruin.
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