CHEW ON THIS

‘Biting’ History: Winston Churchill’s Denture Sells For $24,000

By Elizabeth C.

LET’S HOPE WINSTON CHURCHILL USED A LOT OF POLIDENT.

A partial denture belonging to Britain’s stalwart leader during World War II -the one who promised to “never surrender” to the despicable Nazis — sold at auction Thursday for $23,723.

“The atmosphere was electric,” said a spokesman for the Keys Auctioneers in Aylesdham, England and we’ll have to take his word.

GETTING RIGHT WITH GOD

By Losing Her Religion, Anne Rice Moves Closer To Christ

By Elizabeth C.

IN AN ELEGANT POLEMIC she wrote for the Washington Post for Easter 2008, Anne Rice’s insoluble belief in God bolstered my own tempestuous faith.

“Look: I believe in Him. It’s that simple and that complex,” Rice wrote in opening her 1,100 word essay in which she recounts her baptism into belief.

‘TIL UNDEATH DO THEM PART

All Growed Up, ‘Eddie Munster’ Scares Up Some Love

By Elizabeth C.

MONSTERS! THEY’RE JUST LIKE US!

They grow up, grow old, fall in love, get married. Or if you’re a celebrity monster — specifically a Munster, you hook up with your “biggest fan” 50 years later and pop the question.

Butch Patrick, 57, who played the knickers-wearing wolfboy in the zany 1960s TV series The Munsters is engaged to a former Philadephia Eagles cheerleader with whom he corresponded with when he starred on the TV show.

“My first crush was Butch Patrick,” retired pharmacist Donna McCall, 55, said in May.

KEEPING SCORE

British Bad Girl Beds 1000 To Be Like Sex & The City’s Samantha

By Avoine Sauvage

GET THIS:

A British woman — young, pretty, educated — challenged herself to bone 1,000 men in a matter of ten years. She claims to have succeeded.

Why set such a lofty goal, you ask? She was inspired by Samantha Jones, Kim Cattrall’s fiendishly sexual character on HBO’s Sex and the City.

“Sam went from one man to the next and was proud of it,” says our fair subject, Christina Saunders, 30. “She was sexy, confident, and proud. She had a male attitude of sleeping around and it fascinated me.”

It’s fair to posit that Samantha fascinates everyone, but who actually pursues her lifestyle — what with the risk of pregnancy and disease?

And this is not a gender-exclusive issue, either. To justify or dismiss Saunders’ behavior as the female adoption of male mentality is total bullshit because, really, how many men sleep with 1,000 people in ten years (or a lifetime, for that matter)?

It’s deeply troubling that someone would embark on such a dangerous endeavor merely because a fictional character did something similar.

In one breath, Saunders describe her experience as being both empowering and addictive. “I got hooked on the buzz of one-night-stands,” she says.

Get Ready For Angelina Jolie’s Salt To Blow Up The Box Office

By Elizabeth C.

IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT VIXEN ANGELINA JOLIE’S SALT WILL HAVE AN EXPLOSIVE DEBUT WEEKEND, and it won’t be because of all the recent Angie stories with bland pronouncements about her family.

She’ll have Andrew Morton’s spicy new unauthorizied biography and leaked S&M pics from her deviant days to thank.

Read Thirst-Inspiring: Angelina In Salt Trailer.

Angelina Keeps Yanking Our Chain About Retiring.

Brangelina Cling To The Fairytale That Is Them.

Scientists Confirm It: Angelina Is A Trollop.

DIAGNOSIS: OVERREACHING

Is Psychiatry’s ‘Bible’ Mere Apocrypha?

By Elizabeth C.

THE CLIQUE THAT DEVISES THE DIAGNOSES IN THE The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual gets taken down in a pointed piece appearing in today’s Guardian.

Dorothy Rowe is both therapist and writer, and in her column today also proves to be a fierce advocate for her patients as she dismisses the DSM as “mythology, not a scientific text.”

That’s because the diagnoses are created by American psychiatrists without relying on scientific studies to validate their conclusions, Rowe asserts. A DSM diagnosis is required to submit payment forms to insurance companies.

ICONOCLAST

20 Quotes From Julian Assange, The “World’s Most Dangerous Man”

By Elizabeth C.

HE MAY APPEAR PALE AND LANGUID ON THE TV SCREEN, but Julian Paul Assange is single-handedly reviving the Herculean idea that one man can change the world.

The founder of WikiLeaks has become both hero and outlaw in the span of three years as his whistleblowing organization has disclosed criminal behavior by bankers and government leaders, as well as release the private emails of Sarah Palin and internal documents of the Church of Scientology.

Most controversially, in April WikiLeaks released a classified video depicting the unprovoked shootings of a group of Iraqi men. And last weekend, in collaboration with three prestigious newspapers, the group published an estimated 90,000 internal U.S. military documents detailing the war in Afghanistan and propelling Assange into the crosshairs of the world’s lens.

“I’m sure that Assange is now regarded as one of the very most dangerous men,” says Daniel Ellsberg, an admirer of Assange who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, “and he should be proud of that.”

With admiration, Ellsberg calls Assange “a danger to governments, to withholding wrongfully information…”

As the world grapples with the fallout of the weekend’s revelations, here are some quotes to help discern what makes Assange tick:

Read New Psy Ops Name Illustrates Dark Art’s Spin.

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Gets Backing From Iceland’s Parliament.

The Journalist & The Hacker: Wired‘s Kevin Poulsen Takes Heat For Enabling Adrian Lamo’s Addiction To Press.

What Makes Bradley Manning Tick? The Psychology Of Whistleblowers.

WikiLeaks Tape Reveals Hint That US Ground Soldiers Were Troubled By Discovery.

STARRING

Welcome To The Circus: Blagojevich’s Greatest Show

By Elizabeth C.

HE SPELLS HIS NAME R O D B L A G O J E V I C H AND I doubt there’s any Illinois citizen who couldn’t tell you that today.

He’s the poor man’s Bill Clinton, all hugs and smiles and aw-shucks charm without the brilliance.

He may or may not be corrupt — I’ll leave that for 12 jurors deliberating in his federal corruption trial to decide.

But, win or lose, there’s no disputing that the deposed Governor of Illinois seems destined for reality TV.

“Hey, you like my suit?,” Blagojevich, 53, asks the supportive crowd greeting him outside the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago where he’s being tried on 24 charges including extortion conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery conspiracy.

THEY’RE ‘SPECIAL’

iPad Elites: Guilty Of Gluttony, Lust, Anger

By Elizabeth C.

CONFIRMING WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW INTUITIVELY, a new study concludes that the owners of iPads are selfish elites not prone to altruism. Which means you should think twice before sitting next to that guy browsing one on the airplane.

The consumer research firm MyType surveyed 20,000 people between March and May of this year and found that wellheeled iPad owners “scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness,” Wired reports.

GRIM

Mel Gibson’s Crazy Rant No. 7: “You F-cking Don’t Love Me One Bit”

By Elizabeth C.

MAD MEL GIBSON CONTINUES TO GIVE NEW DEPTH OF MEANING TO THE PHRASE “CRAZY IN LOVE.”

In the latest poisonous rant toward Oksana Grigorieva, Mel seems to suggest that accepting abuse is the duty of a woman in love. “You’re not a f—-g woman I want. You can’t hang,” Mel tells the mother of his infant daughter Lucia. “…You don’t know what the f-ck it means to make a man happy.”

In seven secret audiotapes, the public has heard Gibson threaten, debase and accuse Oskana of not loving him.

“You f-cking don’t love me one bit,” Mel says on the audio released today by RadarOnline. As if loving him could change this story’s ending; Oksana barely responds while Mel beats her with words.

Mel tells her he’s sorry he had a child with her, calls her a “glum” and a “fickle c-nt,” and in what has been a pattern throughout the audios, reminds her who owns the house she’s living in. “And remember who’s f-cking roof you’re under! You ingrate bitch!,” he yells.

According to RadarOnline, Oksana left Mel’s Malibu house Feb. 18 and has not returned.

Thankfully, this latest audio runs only 2:27 minutes. Here’s the full transcript:

“No One Will Believe You: Transcript Six Of Menacing Mel’s Manic Meltdown.

Transcript Five Of Mel’s Mental Meltdown.

Can’t Look Away: The Fourth Transcript Of Mel Gibson’s Descent Into Madness.

More Mad Mel: Transcript Of Radar’s Third Secret Mel Gibson Audio.

‘You Should Just F—-g Smile and Bloooow Me’: Transcript Two Of RadarOnline‘s Mel Gibson Crazy Tirade.

Here’s the Full Transcript Of Mel Gibson’s Sickening Rant Released By Radar.