THE DAILY BLADE: Cigarette Marketing Is Not A Crime Against Humanity
In yet another example of defining the deviancy of crimes against humanity downward, by equating them to unscrupulous or disagreeable practices, Miami attorney J.B. Harris has filed a suit accusing cigarette manufacturers of cynical marketing programs that targeted blacks "for the sole purpose of addicting as many … as possible."
"If I could, I'd try to have them charged with genocide," Harris tells Daily Business Review.
He is seeking $1 billion in damages on behalf of Gloria Tucker, whose mother, Dorothy Oliver, and grandmother, Annie Mae Swain, succumbed to smoking-related ailments.
It should go without saying that slick marketing notwithstanding, cigarette smoking is a personal choice, whereas being the victim of mass murder on a genocidal scale is not.
Has Google Finally Gone Too Far?
Aiding and abetting government censorship outside the U.S. appears to be a successful business model for Google, so it’s only natural that the search engine firm diversify into the Big Brother business, with high-resolution satellite images and a new feature called Street View – that offers users ultra-close up 3D panoramic street-level views of New York City, San Francisco, Miami, Denver, Las Vegas. "Now the mere act of walking down a public street is liable to get you some unwanted publicity, especially if you're captured doing something you'd rather not share with the world," contends Tony Long, copy chief at Wired News.
Long may have a point. "The Drudge Report" featured this "view" of a woman’s black thong underwear as she was sitting in a parked vehicle with the passenger door ajar near 588 44th Ave., off Geary Blvd. in San Francisco (the image has since been removed from Google Maps).
Will The Last Nigel Left In England Please Turn Out The Lights?
Agence France-Presse reports that by January 1, 2008, more boys in England will be named Mohammed than Jack, Thomas, Joshua or Oliver (currently the top five names given to baby boys), according to the Office for National Statistics.
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Why Paris Was Sprung
The Stiletto worked her Hollywood sources, and learned the nature of the mysterious malady that got Paris Hilton out of jail after less than a week.
"Paris was born with anencephaly," explains a confidante of the Hilton family. "She wasn’t continually talking on her cell phone. She was listening to a pre-recorded message that prompted her to ‘Breathe in … breathe out. … Breathe in … breathe out.’" Since cell phones are banned in prison, Paris kept forgetting to breathe, according to the knowledgeable source, and developed life-threatening hypoxia as a result.
Editorial Note: If President Bush has no intention of pardoning the unjustly convicted Scooter Libby, The Stiletto hopes that he can pull whatever strings he needs to so that Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff is assigned to serve his sentence at the Hilton mansion.
That recorded message is, I believe, actually from a blonde joke, all too many of which have been lobbed at me by a certain blond brother.
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