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Nearly-Naked Gisele Poses With a Bunch of Naked Black Men, Raises Questions of Race

Emily Farris — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:01:00 GMT

Norwegian fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø recently shot a series with supermodel Gisele Bündchen surrounded by very buff, very naked black men. The contrast in skin tones is striking, but are we supposed to read more into it?

As one commenter over at Project Rungay said: "wow, those photos are fierce. can't tell if the guys are her slaves or if they're raping her. interesting race dialogue. the first photo is super sexy."

What do you think? Have a look and let us know in the comments section.

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While You Were Sleeping: Slumdog Millionaire Horrors Continue

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:59:00 GMT

A great national tragedy in New Zealand as a sex shop endures a trial by fire.

JG Ballard, author of Crash (the David Cronenberg movie) and Empire of the Sun, died after a long battle with cancer.

This 100-year-old Italian woman, a Nobel-prize winner in medicine, is still working.

Here's one you'll love: a $3.3 million lottery winner has opened a dude nude ranch.

The little girl from Slumdog Millionaire is in danger of being sold off by her father for 200,000 English pounds.

The tombs of both Cleopatra and Marc Antony may have been discovered.

Everything is the fault of the paps, even Madonna's equestrian injury over the weekend.

Everything Obama touches turns into an Amazon.com bestseller.

Somehow we don't believe Leonardo DiCaprio would have anything to do with Lindsay Lohan, but stranger things happen every day.

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While You Were Sleeping: Fake Boobs, Fake ID

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:08:00 GMT

The continued success of National Public Radio proves that there are at least a handful of people out there still interested in brain stimulation.

Margaret Cho on Margaret Cho and her Cho Show.

Condoleeza Rice started to climb out of her shell on Leno, discussing Led Zeppelin and Obama...

The worst story of the month: a man claims his mother died when a police officer stalled the man's hospital trip to write a ticket.

Thanks to Behrooz for reminding us about the woman who used a fake ID to pay for fake boobs. Not much can be said about that.

Is this the best Mike Huckabee quote ever? "When it abolished slavery, the U.S. debated and decided it was immoral for one person to have complete, life-or-death power over another." Obviously, Huckabee is against the death penalty... right?

A Congressional candidate announced via Twitter.

We understand why it's on the market, but we're still uncomfortable with it.

Jennifer Hudson will have her revenge on American Idol.

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Today in WTF: Seductive Farting

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:29:00 GMT

We've just been through one of the greatest days in our nation's history, a bold about-face from our racist past. We would feel this way regardless of whether Barack Obama or Condoleezza Rice had taken the oath of office.

But that wakeup call isn't going to make us act any less immature in these pages...

Fleshbot, thankfully, isn't wasting any time with deep brooding and philsophical blog musings. Nope, they headed straight back into gratuitous nipple shots and utter pornographic silliness. Apparently, there are fetishes for everything, even farting. Therefore, the unwritten law states, there must be... fart porn.

Luckily, most of us will laugh and not be entirely grossed out while experiencing this bizarre video, which YouTube has been too busy with other problems, such as HBO copyright claims, to take down for vulgarity:

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14-Year-Old Girl Sold Into Marital And Sexual Slavery For $16 Grand

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:50:00 GMT

If you had to name the Hick Capitol of the United States, where would you pinpoint its location? Alabama? Texas? Tennessee?

Wrong. After reading this story on Greenfield, California, you'll agree that this town probably leads in local yokels...

According to the AP/Yahoo:

Police have arrested a Greenfield man for allegedly arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat.
Police... learned of the deal after the 36-year-old man went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made... [he was arrested] on suspicion of human trafficking.

Officers also arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of statutory rape. Investigators believe the girl went willingly with the man, but she's under California's legal age of consent and can't legally marry.

Police say arranged marriages involving underage girls have become a problem in this small Central Coast farming community.

Only a several cases of meat? It better have been some steaks from Peter Luger or this is a ripoff.

Seriously, though... Jesus! It would be one thing if this were the first time-- but it's "become a problem" in the community that underage girls are being sent off to be raped by their families? We thought they killed people for raping kids in redneck country... guess we have a new stereotype.

Via the Associated Press.

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RNC Candidate Produces "Barack the Magic Negro" Song

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:02:00 GMT

If you think the historic and decisive victory of Barack Obama has dealt a death blow to this country's racial intolerance, you're going to want to see this...

Chip Saltsman, the genius who turned Mike Huckabee's win in the Iowa caucus to a triumphant defeat down the road, is running to be the head of the Republican National Committee. Since, as is the case with Sarah Palin, the vilest candidate should win here and, with the unfunny "parody" song he handed out to colleagues at Christmas and the huge uproar over the weekend, we would peg him as the new front runner for the job.

Here's a video someone made set to the song. Our second favorite, way less amusing, is here. There's nothing to say here except these people are incredibly sad... just sad...

...with caveats: 1) The video opens with Paul Shanklin, an Al Sharpton impersonator (more like "mocker"), letting everyone know this is closed captioned for the "thinking impared." Yes, that's how he spelled it. Oh, and there are no captions in the video whatsoever. 2) Even if the rest of the ignorant lyrics fail to turn you off, just keep reminding yourself that Saltsman is white and the use of the word "Negro," his defenders argue, is completely acceptable because he's "being funny." 3) The smack-yourself-in-the-forehead break in the song, which either Saltsman or Shanklin use to claim that people vote for Obama because "this is about justice"-- as if those tens of millions of votes were all because people feel sorry for the Civil Rights Era (yeah, tell that to the Jesse Jackson '84 and '88 campaigns, and to George Bush, who would be relieved to know it had nothing to do with him.

If the video gets pulled (it has been once already), please email us at scanner@nerve.com and we'll get another version up immediately.

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While You Were Sleeping: The Heath Ledger Investigation

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:33:00 GMT

James Franco denies the shirt he wears in Pineapple Express is "stolen."

Betty White and Rue McClanahan both avoided Estelle Getty's funeral.

Shia Labeouf will not, as previously rumored, lose a finger.

Even some offensive jokes are too offensive for Bob Saget: he has lashed out at an eating disorder joke and other comments made at the expense of the Olsen twins during his own Comedy Central roast.

Celebrity Hero of the Day: Kirk Douglas, who has long fought for an official US apology for slavery, is thrilled that the House has passed a fitting resolution.

A judge tossed Lisa Marie's lawsuit against ex-boyfriend Tim Burton, which comes as no surprise.

The paparazzi have yet to capture Nicole Kidman's phantom baby. In a photograph, of course.

Can you believe the cast Chicago director Rob Marshall assembled for his new musical, Nine: Daniel Day Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson, Dame Judi Dench, and Sophia Loren... for starters. There's also some guy named Fellini who's working on the screenplay...

The Heath Ledger investigation has closed. It's unclear whether Mary-Kate Olsen's refusal to testify is a reason investigators ended their search, for lack of evidence.

Via WENN.

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Fox News So Fair And Balanced, They Run Frederick Douglas For Senate

Katie Halper — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Fox News really is fair and balanced. The "news" channel showed a picture of Frederick Douglass in reference to the Abraham Lincoln versus Stephen A. Douglas debate of 1858. People like MSNBC's Dan Abrams may think it's a sign of stupidity, sloppiness or ignorance to confuse the abolitionist with the pro slavery senator, and to think that a black man could run for senate in the 1850's. I say, it's just an example of Fox News being fair and balanced, post-racist, and color blind. VIdeo after the jump.

Sloppy Seconds: Hannah Montana is Super Excited for Jamie Lynn Spears, Gary Coleman's Secret Wedding and Beyonce vs. Aretha

Emily Farris — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:29:00 GMT

Hannah Montana, or Miley Cyrus, or Miley Ray Cyrus, or whatever the hell her name is, is "proud" of pregnant teenager Jamie Lynn Spears and her ever-expanding womb.

Apparently rents in New York are so high that people are reverting to selling their children into sex slavery.

Gary Coleman has been secretly married for months. She's half his age and twice his size. OK, not really twice his size, but how could we not? She really is about half his age, though.

Beyonce referred to Tina Turner as "the queen" at the Grammys. This did not go over well with Aretha Franklin.

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The Onion lists the worst band names of 2007. Uh, Sex Rat? Butt Stomach? Really? We think Steve Holt would be an awesome band name, though. Thoughts?