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There comes a point in your 20s when your friends start getting married for the right reasons, as opposed to the majority of your friends who were getting married early on because they’re unstable/dumb/weird. Eventually, those friends will ask you to be bridesmaids. A lot of those times, you’re going to have to say yes, especially if it’s your cousin who doesn’t have any actual friends and your mom makes you.

Your job as a maid of honor or bridesmaid may differ, depending on the wedding. Some brides will expect you to just show up in your expensive-ass dress the day of the wedding and look pretty, but not so pretty that you’ll outshine her. Other brides will want you there every step of the way, through thick and thin, to be there for her tantrums, and to down Jose Cuervo through the night on those days where she’s having cold feet.

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Just in time for a whole lot of stupid over the next few months (and potentially 4-8 years) Gina from What About Our Daughters? has launched MichelleObamaWatch.com. This presidential election will thrust an African-American woman into the spotlight in a way unparalleled to anything we’ve seen in recent history.

Just in the past 2 days, we’ve seen some pretty shocking (and not-so-shocking stuff at the same time) stuff go down:

- Yazmany Arboleda’s exhibition, “The Assassination of Barack Obama” drew enough uproar to warrant NYPD and the Secret Service. You can check the images, here, but it’s more or less some artist’s poor attempt at being avant garde. Apparently the exhibition is about the media’s portrayal of Barack Obama (there’s another one of Sen. Hillary Clinton). Arboleda tried to put it all together in an empty storefront in Midtown Manhattan for a 24 hour guerrilla show. Both shows had previously been in galleries, only open to people by appointment. The Barack Obama exhibit features nooses, a gigantic black penis, and a photo of his kids, Malia and Shasha with the words “nappy headed hos” written above them. Secret Service shuts that shit dowwwwn, and the guy is detained for a few hours.

He cries “artistic freedom.” I say, he’s a sucky artist. I was offended looking at it; I’m all about First Amendment rights, but the exhibit is really kinda dumb. It’s more provocative than something that sends a message… And, dammit, I’m very, very scared of Obama getting shot, like many other people are, too.

- Those fools at Fox “News” referred to Michelle Obama not as Barack’s wife, but his “Baby Mama.”

Now I KNOW the Obamas are probably the most idyllic black family in the country, but according to Fox News, all black people have illegitimate children and aren’t responsible to their families. Eventually, Fox apologized in a statement sent to Politico.

“A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment,” Fox’s Senior Vice President of Programming Bill Shine said in a statement to Politico.

Classsssss.

Fortunately, there’s a lot of people who are basically pissed about the treatment of the Obamas and the Clintons for that matter. But this is not the last that we’re going to see (ahem, cough cough, Faux News cough hack blecccch)

Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) was able to capture the process of ovulation. The photos of the process, which has never been so clearly documented, were a “happy accident.” Earlier photos were kinda grainy and meh. These are for REAL!!

Donnez was preparing to do a partial hysterectomy on a 45 year old woman, according to New Scientist magazine. The egg’s escape from the ova used to be considered a “sudden, explosive event” but the photos show that it’s actually a 15 minute process.

Check out the full article for the photos (yeah, ovaries look like inside-out nipples…)

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The last time I was truly moved by Sen. Hillary Clinton was when she announced she would run for the presidency. And then there was this past Saturday. While it was her concession (well, “suspension speech”), it was probably the best oration she’s ever spouted. This Obama supporter damn near cried, and I’m sure many others did, too. Here’s the video, and if you can’t watch it, check the transcript. Moving stuff.

OK, sure, it’s almost a third of the way through the month, there’s still plenty interesting things coming up…

Get Smart, June 20: For those of you who stayed up past your bed time to laugh at 40 year old jokes on Nick at Nite as kid, this one’s for you. Get Smart was a comedy series about Maxwell Smart, a bumbling spy (Don Adams) and his hot, competent partner Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon). The film is being recreated with decent looking casting — put Feldon and Adams next to Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway, and it ain’t too shabby. As remakes happen very frequently (creativity in Hollywood is apparently on the wane), I wouldn’t suggest having super high expectations on this one. However, the expectations shouldn’t lie with the film, rather than the audience. I highly doubt a bunch of douchebags who are going to the movies to see Anne Hathaway’s jugs are actually going to know anything about the show, or get the humor, if they harken back to it. Nonetheless, I’m watching it… especially because The Rock is in it…

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