TRYING TO ANSWER WHY?

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Today’s Word: Radicalized

By Elizabeth C.

AS THE MANHUNT FOR THE SURVIVING SUSPECT IN MONDAY’S BOSTON MARATHON bombing continues, terrorist experts and TV talking heads are repeatedly using the word ‘radicalized’ while speculating on what led to Monday’s bloody crime.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, identified as “suspect No 1” in photographs released by the FBI, was killed in a shootout with law enforcement early Friday. Authorities are still combing the suburbs of Boston in search of his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The two men, Chechen Muslim immigrants to the U.S., are accused of setting off two homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing three and injuring as many as 170.

As the search for the surviving suspect unfolds, on onslaught of media are chasing down details about the backgrounds of the two men, with many former schoolmates, family members and acquaintances expressing utter shock that the Tsarnaev brothers are suspected of such a horrific crime.

SEE YOUR BEAUTY

Dove’s New Ad Campaign Sells Women On Their Natural Beauty

By Kyra Senese

DO YOU SEE BEAUTY IN THE REAL YOU? Or do Madison Avenue’s dictates on the female ideal define how you see yourself?

Gil Zamora, an FBI-trained forensics artist with more than 3,000 criminal sketches under his belt, was recently been hired by Dove and Ogilvy Brazil to interview and draw seven different women.

Working with Dove to promote the Campaign for Real Beauty, Zamora first drew profiles based on the women’s self-descriptions, then followed them with second drawings based on descriptions of the women as told to him by strangers.

PROVING NICE GUYS FINISH LAST

Lightning Strikes Twice For Psy As ‘Gentleman’ Racks Up YouTube Hits

By Jacob Wittich

PSY’S NEWEST SINGLE GENTLEMAN, the evil twin to Gangnam Style released just a week ago, is proving that lightning sometimes does strike twice.

Already boasting 145 million views as of post time, Gentleman hit the 100-million mark on YouTube faster than any other video since Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream.

The video features the South Korean rapper wreaking havoc and pulling cheesy pranks on young women, including undoing bra straps and pulling chairs away moments before they sit down.

INTERNECINE WARFARE

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Report: NBC Plot To Fire Ann Curry Dubbed ‘Operation Bambi’

By Elizabeth C.

A NEW BOOK BY a New York Times media reporter reveals that the plot to ax Ann Curry from the TODAY show was dubbed ‘Operation Bambi’ by the show’s top executives.

Times reporter Brian Stelter’s first book on the morning TV wars, Top Of The Morning, is expected to exacerbate NBC’s hangover after the botched dismissal of Curry, reportedly tossed as TODAY show cohost due in part to the diabolical machinations of Matt Lauer.

Lauer, according to multiple published sources, “simply didn’t like” Curry.

THAT’S WHACK

Ozzy’s Off The Wagon, Coolio’s Whack Crack & Pamela’s New ‘Hoary’ Style

By Miz J

HAS THE PRINCE OF Darkness lost his Princess for good? Ozzy Osbourne assured us via Facebook that he and wife of 31 years, Sharon, are not divorcing. But the truth is that the couple is estranged due to Ozzy’s drug and drink relapse.

“For the last year and a half I have been drinking and taking drugs. I was in a very dark place and was an a-hole to the people I love most, my family. However, I am happy to say that I am now 44 days sober,” he revealed.

CRIME OF REPITITION

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Drunk Macklemore Fan Strangled For Singing ‘Thrift Shop’ 25XS

By Elizabeth C.

AND SINCE WE’RE SPEAKING OF MACKLEMORE, HE sends his apologies for having a hand in the strangling assault against a Boulder, Colo. man.

Seems Lars Hansen found it fitting to celebrating his birthday by pouring one on, and then singing, repeatedly, Macklemore’s ode to frugality, Thrift Shop. He was already getting on his girlfriend’s nerves for being drunk. But after the 25th time hearing Hansen singing the same song, 23-year-old Samantha Malson allegedly tried to strangle him.

THE FIGHT’S WON

Watch Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Declare Victory In ‘Can’t Hold Us’ Video

By Elizabeth C.

AIN’T NOTHING SWEETER THAN SUCCESS, AND IN THEIR JUST-RELEASED NEW VIDEO, MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS are declaring victory over pop culture and any lesser voices from their past who scoffed at their big dreams.

The Seattle duo evoke their soaring spirits and their refusal to succumbs to others’ ideas about who they should be in this 7-minute video depicting stunning outdoor scenes and superhero feats.

PIECING TOGETHER CLUES

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Tracing The Epidemiology Of The Boston Marathon Bombings

By Elizabeth C.

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS ARE PAINSTAKINGLY GATHERING FACTS AND FORENSICS to trace the epidemiology of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Above is one of a series of evidentiary photographs taken by the Joint Terrorism Task Force of Boston and released to Reuters, this one showing a fragment of a circuit board believed used in “pressure cooker” bomb, one of two that exploded Monday afternoon during the iconic race to kill three and maim dozens more.

WHAT’S UP WITH ARIES?

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Beware The Ides Of April? The Queer ‘April Attack Phenomenom’

By Elizabeth C.

SINCE MONDAY’S BOSTON MARATHON BOMBINGS, in which three people died and more than 170 were injured, a few CURIOUS REPORTS HAVE EMERGED NOTING THE queer fact that many of America’s most heinous criminal acts have occurred in the mid of April. To wit:

TEE SHIRTS AVAILABLE NOW!

Hanker To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before? Here’s Your One-Way Ticket To Mars

NEED SOME QUIET TIME? LIKE, FOREVER?

Are you “sick of this shit,” the fecal matter we call rape, violence, pointless terrorism, pollution and and greed, as Craig Ferguson lamented after the Boston Marathon bombings?

Or maybe you’re just unquenchably curious, a Star Wars nerd who’s fascinated with the solar system?

Have we got a deal for you! The company Mars One is seeking applications for explorer wannabes interested in a permanent, one-way trip to Mars. The nonprofit based in Amsterdam is soliciting video applications — and a nominal $25 fee — from individuals who want to be considered as part of the team of private astronauts who will colonize the red planet in the year 2023.