For Rating and as a consequence Dollars. people are prepared to go to any lengths!
A tipster sent this to me this morning and after clicking the link, I — the guy who thought he had seen it all from our pop cultureoverlords — literally gasped:
MTV Campaign (Photo credit: garretkeogh)
DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THINGS TO THE NEXT LEVEL? LIKE, ARE YOU READY TO HAND OVER YOUR V CARD? OR DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND WHO IS READY TO LOSE IT?
Young adulthood is a time for exploration. New relationships, fresh experiences and sexual firsts…
Now MTV is looking to frankly capture that journey in a new series called My First…We’re looking for adults who are ready to go all the way. Let MTV come along on your journey… as you try to lose your virginity! (Note: We will be filming whether or not you accomplish this goal… but NOT the act itself. Duh.)
If you are 18 years or older and are willing to candidly allow MTV to accompany you on the journey toward “losing it,” please send us an email.
MTV can and undoubtedly will hide behind the fact that 18 year-olds are legal adults, but you can prey on adults just as easily as you can prey on children, especially young adults conditioned by pop culture outlets like MTV to believe celebrity and narcissism are virtues.
And the bait here is celebrity. Debase yourselves for our cameras and we’ll make you a star! This isn’t about love or finding love or even losing your innocence to someone you love. This is about the lie that…
Young adulthood is a time for exploration. New relationships, fresh experiences and sexual firsts…
I seem to remember when we were the kind of culture that protected young people from the indignities of loveless sex and did everything in our power to educate about the financial, emotional, and medical pitfalls of leading with your sexuality over your heart.
What MTV is doing might be legal but it’s still a sleazy exploitation of some of our most vulnerable citizens. And the dangling of celebrity and a camera from a swanky studio lot is no different than dangling candy and a camera from your open raincoat.
If you want to debase yourselves, it’s a free country. To entice others, however, is an act of evil.
The Underground New York Public Library is a visual library featuring the Reading-Riders of the NYC subways. This library freely lends out a reminder that we’re all capable of traveling to great depths within ourselves and as a whole.
The NYC Reading-Riders are a plentiful and diverse group. They’re engaged in a simultaneous journey, one that takes them towards their daily pursuits as well as towards a greater sense of themselves and our world. This project takes a closer look at them in celebration and revelation.
I’m Ourit. I take and post these pictures along with some behind the scenes stories and thoughts. I’m fascinated by how we apply ourselves to stories and discourse. In so doing, we shape the course of who we understand ourselves to be.”
Library Hours
Sunday- Friday: Posting 4-6 images daily
Sunday: A Sunday Morning Bible is posted at 8:00 AM
The survey compares the price of hundreds of products and services, including food, rent, and transportation, in 131 cities. The prices are then indexed to New York City, which keeps a score of 100. Zurich knocked off Tokyo by a score of 170 to 166, which indicates that living in those cities is 70% and 66% more expensive than living in NYC, as measured in U.S. dollars. No American cities cracked the top 10. (If you find it hard to believe that so many cities in the world are more expensive than every U.S. metro, keep in mind that real estate prices aren’t factored into the survey.)
Looking deeper down the list, some surprises emerge. New York City fell below Los Angeles into a tie with Chicago. Globetrotters might be surprised to learn that Cleveland finished just above Rio. The three cities at the bottom of the list were Karachi, Pakistan, Mumbai, and Tehran, all of which finished around 50, suggesting that they are half as expensive as New York City. This great graph from The Economist offers a good sampling of large metros:
How about suing the Norway Government by the Indian Couple, whose child ren were separated by the Norwegian Government?
“Talk about breaking the bank. Fausat Ogunbayo, a Staten Island mother of 2 is currently pursuing a lawsuit and the New York City Administration for Children’s Services for what she claims is falsely placing her two kids in Foster care and ruling her an unfit mother. The kicker is that she is suing the city for $900 TRILLION dollars.
Ogunbayo, who is representing herself, says the decision by Child Services to put her children in Foster care violated her civil rights and caused her “over three years of terror, horror, grievous harm, time lost, substantial economic hardship and injuries.” The children have been out of her care since 2008
Child Services filed court documents saying that Fausat Ogunbayo had presented many bizarre behaviors during their evaluation period. She brought her children to the doctor because she claimed their skin was getting darker due to radiation exposure. In another weird one she told the kids schools that the FBI was after the kids.
The city is saying that in addition to suffering from hallucinations and was not around for the kids. Interestingly enough, in a seprate case before the New York City courts, Ogunbayo was ruled to be a fit mother and that the children were never in “imminent danger of harm” while in her care.
This L&M Cigarette ad from the July 1962 Popular Science is a particularly despicable example of the genre, whose subtext is, “If you love your family, celebrate it by contributing to your own early death.
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