SOMETHING TO CHEW ON

Study: ‘Fat Shaming’ Makes Targets Gain Weight

By Elizabeth Coady

THE NEXT TIME YOU GET THE URGE TO “FAT SHAME” A LOVED ONE, or maybe just Ph.D. candidates, be aware that you could be motivating them to become even fatter.

From TODAY:

COOKED

New York’s Having A Weiner Roast

By Elizabeth Coady

NEW YORK CITY IS THROWING ITSELF A SPECTACULAR SUMMER WEINER ROAST and a schleppy former Congressman is the dog getting cooked.

Anthony Weiner, a Democratic candidate for the New York City’s mayoral race, has been outed a second time for sexting pictures of his penis to women he met on the web. The 48-year-old is evidently proud of stuffed skin; why else would he keep showing it off?

POP ART?

MasterMind Ink

Lady Gaga Pierces Her Nose During Stop In Chicago

LADY GAGA PAID A VISIT TO CHICAGO’S MasterMind Ink Custom Tattoo Studio & Art Gallery Monday to get her septum pierce.

The mega star called ahead before showing up and stayed for about an hour, said tattoo artist Scott Pizer.

“She came with a security team is, all I know and one of her photographers,” tattoo artist Scott Pizer, 27. “She was referred to us.”

“She was awesome, she was nice, she was friendly. I can’t say anything bad about her. She was very down to earth.”

PRIVACY IS THE NEW LUXURY

Claim: Google’s Eric Schmidt Had Aides Solicit Women For Yacht Trip

By Elizabeth Coady

GOOGLE CHAIRMAN ERIC SCHMIDT RECENTLY DROPPED $15 MILLION to snap up a private xanadu where he could wine and dine — and presumably bonk — a litany of beautiful playmates, according to the New York Post.

The former CEO dropped several more million to have the 6,250-square-foot duplex with private elevator soundproofed because “he doesn’t sleep well,” the paper reports.

007 ACTION

Right Out Of James Bond: Weaponized Car Opens Fire On Fugitive

IT WAS SCENE RIGHT OUT OF JAMES BOND: REMOTE-CONTROLLED GUN BARRELS rigged behind a car licence place blazed bullets at a Czech fugitive that someone wants dead.

Lucky for Radovan Krejcir, convicted last year in abstentia for tax fraud in his native Czechoslovakia, walked away unscathed; His bullet-proof Mercedes-Benz suffered some scuffs from the shots.

PENS TELL-ALL?

So This Is What Jon Gosselin Was Doing In The Woods

By Miz J

REMEMBER THAT SHOW Jon and Kate Plus 8? Back in the days when people with a pathetic half-dozen or so children would be granted a reality show?

Yeah, we barely do, either.

BULLY FOR YOU

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Workplace Bullies Are Politically Skillful, Target The Unattractive

By Elizabeth Coady

RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN BULLIED ON THE JOB. There’s a lot of us out there, and two recent stories reveal new information about the behavior.

In an article titled, “Sometimes, the boss really is a psycho,” TODAY reports on a new study that reveals how politically savvy workplace bullies are. “The successful ones are very, very socially skilled,” said Darren Treadway, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Management. “They’re capable of disguising their behavior.”

Treadway says that 84 percent of workers are impacted by workplace bullying — either victims themselves or witnesses to the practice. Previous researchers have found anecdotal evidence that bullying often goes unnoticed because bullies “understand their environments and select their targets strategically.”

PAST IS PROLOGUE

Samantha Geimer’s Cover For ‘The Girl’ Snapped By Roman Polanski

By Elizabeth Coady

WHO, OR WHAT, DEFINES A LIFE? Does history imprison — or liberate?

For Samantha Geimer, those questions are unresolved.

Geimer is the renown as the 13-year-old girl drugged and raped by director Roman Polanksi in 1977 at Jack Nicholson’s Los Angeles house. He had lured the teen there — with her mother’s permission — under the guise of her posing for a French edition of Vogue that the director was guest editing.

FAMILY MONIKER

It’s Official: Royal Baby Is ‘Prince George Alexander Louis’

THE NEWS ARRIVED VIA TWITTER:

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted to announce that they have named their son George Alexander Louis.

— Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) July 24, 2013

PASSING IT ON

Powerball Winner Donates $2 Million To Maine High School

By Miz J

WE’VE ALL HAD THAT MOMENT WHEN the bills are due, everything around us needs an upgrade and there’s just no money left for anything. And that’s when we start daydreaming about what we’d do if we won the Lottery.

For Gloria MacKenzie of Zephyrhills, Fla., the winner of the single biggest jackpot awarded ever — a Powerball payout of $278 million in a lump sum after taxes — that dream is now a distinct reality.