Rough Draft Of Karen Handel’s Resignation Letter

February 7, 2012 The Honorable Nancy Brinker CEO, Susan G. Komen for the Cure VIA EMAIL 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250 Dallas, Texas 75244 Dear Ambassador Brinker: Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been the recognized leader for more 30 years in the fight against breast cancer here in the US – and increasingly around the world UNTIL I TOTALLY EFFED IT UP WITH MY ANTI-ABORTION ZEALOTRY. As you know, I have always kept Komen’s mission and the THE GOOD CHRISTIAN women we serve as my highest priority (SECOND ONLY TO MY QUEST TO OVERTURN SETTLED CASE LAW SUCH […]

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RAWK TAWK: Q&A With Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick

BY TONY ABRAHAM Today marks the release of Be The Void, Dr. Dog’s sixth, and arguably best, album. Last week, Phawker got new Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick to talk about the new album as he zig-zagged his way across the city, barely avoiding getting hit by passing vehicles and trying to keep a straight face while discussing the band’s on-tour farting prowess. Having joined up with Dr. Dog two years ago after the band parted ways with drummer Juston Stens, Slick brings a new energy to Dr. Dog, upping the tempo on  those classic upbeat, yet slightly dissonant Dr. […]

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INTERN: I F*cked John F. Kennedy

Mimi Alford, 69, claims she lost her virginity to John F. Kennedy while she was a White House intern and had an 18-month-long relationship with the president. It began in the summer of 1962 when an aide invited Alford, then 19 years old and only four days into her internship, to swim in the White House swimming pool. That’s where she unexpectedly met the 45 year old Kennedy, who immediately took a liking to her. Alford claims the president took her virginity when the two met in one of Jackie Kennedy’s rooms later that day. What followed was an affair […]

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ARTSY: Mayhem Is My Business; Business Is Good

BY MIKE WALSH If you enjoy Weegee’s famous crime and disaster scene photos from the 1930s and 1940s (as who doesn’t?), get yourself to the International Center of Photography (ICP) in Manhattan where Murder is My Business, an exhibition of Weegee’s most famous photos recently opened. Weegee’s photos are fun, trashy, insensitive, and full of suffering and blood. What’s not to like? The great thing about this exhibition is that it includes wall plaques of information about the specific car crashes, tenement fires, suicide, and gangland murders depicted in the photos. It does not leave you speculating about why the […]

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CINEMA: The Hipster In The Dell

Urban Farming is the topic of the timely documentary film, Urban Roots, which explores the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit, Michigan. Food grown locally in community gardens and urban farms is starting to make a positive impact for families faced with food challenge issues in Philadelphia. Drexel University will host the Philadelphia theatrical premiere of Urban Roots tomorrow night (Tuesday, February 7th) at 7:30 PM in the Bossone Research Center (3140 Market St.). After the screening, members of Philadelphia’s urban farming community and the film’s director, Mark MacInnis, will focus on Philadelphia urban farming and how to get involved. Prior […]

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NPR FOR THE DEF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t

FRESH AIR Meryl Streep is known for completely enveloping herself in her characters, capturing their nuances, speech patterns and personalities. In her films, she’s transformed herself into such disparate people as the chef Julia Child, the writer Susan Orlean and plutonium-plant worker Karen Silkwood, winning countless honors and awards along the way. In her latest film, the biopic The Iron Lady, Streep once again fully inhabits a real-world figure — this time former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Her performance has already won her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination, and has earned rave reviews from critics, including Charles […]

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The Homo-Hating Church Lady Who Singelhandedly Destroyed The Susan G. Komen For The Cure Brand

HUFFINGTON POST: Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s leading anti-breast-cancer charity, has insisted that its since-reversed decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood arose from a routine change in criteria for grant eligibility that had nothing to do with abortion politics. But a Komen insider told HuffPost on Sunday that Karen Handel, Komen’s staunchly anti-abortion vice president for public policy, was the main force behind the decision to defund Planned Parenthood and the attempt to make that decision look nonpolitical. “Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria,” […]

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SPORTO: Superbowl XLVI Ad Game Play By Play

BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY So the Giants won. I hate them. At least the Patriots lost. Hate those cheaters too. Now let’s review the commercials. A true Super Bowl Ad can only air while the game is being played, so pregame and halftime ads are out. Forget the “straight” ones too…the car commercials, movie trailers, TV promos and others that just aren’t going for a laugh. The rest were trying to be funny or cool, and I’ve given them a ranking from 0-10. Anything that scored a six or higher I considered funny. The strategy now is to try […]

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MIA: Bad Girls

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Perhaps most outraged is the Parents Television Council. PTC President Tim Winter released a statement taking NBC to task for the slipped finger. “NBC fumbled and the NFL lied because a performer known as M.I.A. felt it necessary to flip off millions of families,” Winter said. “It is unfortunate that a spectacular sporting event was overshadowed once again by broadcasting the selfish acts of a desperate performer.” Sunday night, a source close to M.I.A. said the performer had been struck with “a case of adrenaline.” “She wasn’t thinking,” the source said. “It wasn’t any kind of statement. […]

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