If perchance you were on Twitter this past weekend searching for fisting, you may have found yourself shit out of luck as Twitter was redirecting their Top Tweet searches for "Fisting" to "Fishing." What's more, apparently this was the only kinky word being subjected to such redirects as searches for Spanking got users the content they desired.
According to AVN, Bacchus of Erosblog was the first to bring this to the public's attention, and even wrote a lengthy screed against this perceived censorship, dubbing it the Pornocalypse.
The situation also appears to be fluid, with a cloud of uncertainty about exactly what Twitter is up to, and whether it will stick. Even Bacchus, who consistently mentioned the "blocking" of results for keywords like "#Pussy, #cunt, and #vagina," clarifies, "Let’s be double clear what we mean by 'blocked' here. So far, there are no reports of any killwords being applied to the 'all tweets' search. You can still find this stuff with an extra click. The block is being applied to the 'Top Tweets' functionality, which of course is the default search result presentation."
For their part, Twitter has now announced that this was all a terrible misunderstanding, and was actually the result of a bug. Nice try Twitter, Bacchus is on to you and your war on fisting, and will not yield in this unending Pornocalypse. Also, just so I'm on the record with this, that is the worst portmanteau ever.
Lili Simmons is all smiles in the latest issue of Brink proving she might a little different than her character on Banshee. Whether she’s dark and mysterious (and topless) or smiling a white dress walking down the street, she is one incredibly pretty woman.
Simmons got her acting start on shows that were a little more family friendly, but jumped at the chance to play Rebecca Bowman, a young Amish girl who lives a devout life with her father by day, but at night is rather rebellious and a bit of a sexually adventurous party girl on the Cinemax series Banshee. I’m not going to say she makes that show, but every time there is a topless Lili Simmons it makes for some remarkable television.
As awesome of show as the HBO series True Detective was, Simmons two episodes where pretty much the best shows. Let’s hope this is a trend Simmons wants to continue, she's got a tremendous body and every time you see it, it gets better and better.
Of course, she doesn’t always have to play a dark and mysterious character. Her smile is great and I have no doubt she’d be amazing in a romantic comedy or something else. As long as we get to keep seeing her, that’s all that matters.
Jon Cryer--who will always be Duckie to me--has written "So That Happened: A Memoir" that releases to the world on April 7th. I was never a fan of "Two and a Half Men"--shows with laugh tracks almost always make me grind my teeth involuntarily.
OK, the blonde (Andrea Bogart) is hot but I still fucking hate laugh tracks. Isn't it just hilarious that Sheen's character chooses to not bother to learn the name of the woman he picks up off of the beach? According to the laugh track, we are supposed to think so. Women aren't dangerous or anything so it's totally fine that hot piece of ass Gretchen is on her way up the stairs without either men knowing anything about her.
Anyway, Cryer's book is coming out and The Hollywood Reporter debuted excerpts from it. The part that I found of interest was Cryer's info on co-star/noted porn hound Charlie Sheen's porn habits.
First off, Cryer describes hiding some of it from Sheen's later ex Denise Richards:
"One day during the first season of Two and a Half Men, I got a knock on my trailer door. It was Charlie — my trailer was next to his — and he seemed panicked.
"Dude! Dude! I need your help." "Sure thing," I said and ended the cellphone call I was on. "What’s going on?"
He handed me a heavy shopping bag. "Denise is coming over," he said, "and I need you to hide something for me." Oh, boy, I thought. If this is drug paraphernalia …
"Is it legal?" I asked. "What? Yeah, oh, yeah. It’s legal. Hey, thanks." He left, and I had to look.
By legal, he meant barely legal. The bag was filled to the brim with porn.
Curiosity getting the best of me, I had to find out what kind of porn captivates Charlie Sheen, what decadence frightens him into having me squirrel it away for him. Clowns? Golden-shower pictorials? German scat porn starring Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke? I was prepared for the weirdest, but it really was all pretty tame, some of it just topless mags. Really, if this was the worst I’d have to deal with regarding Charlie’s vices, bring on the bags of porn for me to hide."
That all sounds OK. Wait for it....it does get weird later on during Sheen's infamous meltdown that no one on this planet was allowed to miss out on.
"When Charlie's marriage to Denise ended during the second season, both Charlie and I became single at the same time. Which was … interesting.
We'd have conversations, and he'd mention that things were going well for him romantically. "Romantically" is my choice of words, not his.
Then, as if to prove this, he'd show me a picture he'd taken of somebody's vagina. It was always a perfectly nice-looking vagina, but I would invariably think, "Why just this, and not the rest of the person?" And what do you say in that moment? Thank you for that vagina picture? How long have you been seeing … it? Please tell me she was awake?"
So yeah, I am not shocked at all that Sheen felt the need to reduce women to being vagina support systems at that point in his life. A lot of men in bad relationships do and having had my cleavage and/or ass stared at by men in Hollywood, I can tell you that I definitely have been reduced to my parts by some of this city's men just like the rest of the women I know who live here. Looking is fine, no problem. Enjoy. Hell, I always do.
What sucks for Sheen is that he was just bad enough of a friend/co-star that good ol' Duckie felt the need to bust him out in the open on it. Maybe Duckie is just bitter that the stress and media harassment that Sheen put him through during the storied Sheen freak out? (Tiger blood!) Unnamed ho vagina over bros is certainly how it stands in Cryer's world, it seems. Cryer made a lot of money off of the unknown vaginas who walked up the stairs of that fake house with Sheen on the comedy. It just was not funny anymore when Sheen showed quite directly those unnamed images as what he--and really, "Two and a Half Men" as a show--were reducing women to. It's not fun to think of yourself as being part of a problem, is it, Duckie? It's got to be even harder when you might be trying to recant the show's message now when you are trying to get future acting gigs.
Here's Brandy Aniston. She has a very nice looking vagina....and a name and a face and tits and all kinds of other stuff that I wrote about in that interview I linked to. Knowing names is way more fun than not, most of the time.
Sweet Alexis Adams gets some fine dicking in her scene with porno newbie Jim Storm in this clip from their scene in "Pure Sexual Attraction 2" directed by Brother Love for Pure Passion/New Sensations. First off, fuck, she looks good in that bath. Her white dress is wet and clinging to her youthful, curved frame and those tits....oh, my, those tits are just some of the greatest wonders out there. I love how they come out to just those wonderful points.
Fuck, they are pretty. She is a lovely woman....
Storm joins her in that tub to stand and get his cock sucked. She does a fine job at the oral here while she is soaked in that bath and looking fucking beautiful. I love how she takes a moment to cover up those tits and wet down that cotton dress so that we can see it cling to her as she sucks him. It's a sensual, lovely moment. When Storm is banging Adams in doggie, the world could pretty much stop and I would not notice due to the fabulousness of what her tits look like swaying there. Delightful.
Beach weddings have always been popular on Alabama's coast and now a reef-focused nonprofit is taking it to another level.
On Thursday, a shell-covered concrete cross is being deployed at the nearshore reef called "Poseidon's Playground." Once it's in place in about 38 feet of water, 3.5 miles off the coast of Orange Beach, it will begin serving as an altar for underwater wedding ceremonies, according to Vince Lucido, president of the Alabama Gulf Coast Reef and Restoration Foundation.
"Weddings seem to be a big industry here and we're going to offer wedding venues for anybody that has a desire to do underwater weddings," Lucido said.
This shell-covered concrete cross will be deployed by Orange Beach-based Walter Marine at the nearshore reef "Poseidon's Playground" off Alabama's coast. The cross will serve as an altar for underwater wedding ceremonies. (Photo by Stewart Walter)
The Poseidon's Playground project is being spearheaded by the reef foundation. The first statues were deployed in December. On Thursday if the weather permits, the cross will join the mythological statues -- Poseidon, Apollo and Venus -- and a table-like, grouper reef with small aquatic statues.
As with the initial deployment, Orange Beach-based Walter Marine will place the cross at the state-permitted site south of Perdido Pass on the eastern edge of the R.V. Minton Artificial Reef Zone.
Lucido said the cross is the start of the second phase of the nearshore reef that is expected to include memorial statues to first responders. While the group continues to seek donations and sponsorships for the effort, it received a $5,000 boost from the Orange Beach City Council Tuesday night.
"I'm just letting you know that we're working on different venues for diving and fishing," Lucido told the council. "And especially the diving industry to make it more available to all facets of divers -- your beginning, your intermediate and your more advanced."
The group made a big splash in May 2013 when it sank "The Lulu," a 271-foot retired coastal freighter, 17 nautical miles south of Perdido Pass in Orange Beach after raising $500,000 for the project in just five months.
Since forming in July 2012 under the umbrella of the Coastal Alabama Business Chamber, the foundation has been working with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division, in getting sites permitted for recreational diving. The LuLu became Alabama's first purposefully sunk whole-ship diving reef and was the nonprofit's first step toward making Alabama's a tourism-based diving destination.
While The LuLu is more suited to intermediate and advanced divers, with a 50-foot depth clearance at the top of the wreck, Lucido said Poseidan's Playground is suited for beginners.
Alabama Gulf Coast Reef and Restoration Foundation board member Gary Emerson swims near the grouper reef at Poseidon's Playground on Feb. 12, 2015. (Courtesy Lila Harris of Aquatic Soul Photography)
Mayor Tony Kennon said the project is great for young divers and felt the unique underwater wedding idea would be successful.
"I think we're going to be surprised at how many wedding actually take place on that alter," Kennon said.
Reef foundation member Lila Harris, a local scuba instructor and brainchild of the virtual underwater playground, said a GoFundMe fundraising campaign will begin soon for the first-responder memorial statues.
"We're also looking at two bases that have columns on them that will frame the cross," she said. "So that would be next on our list to raise money for aside from the firemen and policemen (memorials)."
In February, Harris said four blocks with metal rings were deployed at the site to ensure that it remains a "no anchor" zone.
The wedding altar idea was a collective one, she said.
"Down Under Dive Shop has talked about doing underwater weddings for a few years before Poseidon's Playground was ever an idea," she said of the Gulf Shores business. "It's just a culmination of our local wedding planners and ministers that we know and divers that we know and photographers."
A number of local divers happen to be ordained ministers, she said. "We have several dive operations that can help go down and prepare the ceremony ahead of time based on the couple's desires," she said.
The altar may have some ties to the Flora-Bama but Harris said negotiations are ongoing.
Underwater weddings have been popular in the Florida Keys for decades and are common in tropical locales around the world.
Having an underwater wedding altar would be unique to Gulf Coast, Harris said.
"We would be the only one basically between California and south Florida, which would be pretty cool," she said. "This is going to be huge."
A bill to repeal the state law restricting the use of corn or other bait as an aid in deer hunting passed a Senate committee today with an endorsement from country music legend Hank Williams Jr.
Williams, an avid hunter known for singing about the outdoors and rural life, said there are times when it's good to have the option to use bait, such as when a hunter takes along a child, a disabled person or an injured veteran and wants to make sure they have a chance to kill a deer.
Williams said many other states have no restrictions on hunting with bait and that Alabama has more deer than it ever has.
He also said he has seen the current rule, which says the hunter must be more than 100 yards away and out of line of sight of any bait, is not always fairly enforced.
Sen. Tom Whatley, R-Auburn, the bill's sponsor, said deer cause millions of dollars in damage in vehicle accidents every year.
Whatley said it's the fifth year he has tried to get the legislation passed.
The bill would also remove restrictions on using bait to hunt feral swine. But it would not affect restrictions on using bait to hunt turkey.
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is not taking a position on the legislation.
The bill passed the Agriculture Conservation and Forestry Committee by a 9-2 vote. It goes to the Senate.
Sens. Paul Sanford, R-Huntsville and Larry Stutts, R-Sheffield, voted against it.
"This country boy doesn't need the bait," Sanford said.
Williams said he didn't need to use bait, either.
Williams talked about learning to love hunting from his family. He said his father loved squirrel hunting.
Williams closed his remarks to the committee with a reference to one of his father's most famous songs.
He said long ago, an American Indian armed with a bow and arrow might have used corn to attract a deer.
That Indian might have been named Kowaliga, Williams said.
After the committee meeting, Williams spent time posing for pictures with lawmakers, lobbyists, pages, legislative staffers and others at the State House.
What are Senator Orr's thoughts and reasons for his bill? Do educators think this is the right approach? What about immigration advocates? What does the institute that's pushing for this legislation on a national level have to say about it?
Read through the arguments below and continue to share your thoughts with us in the comments and on social media, using the hashtag #ALcombat.
Senator Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) represents Alabama's third district and is the sponsor of SB105 which would require high school students to pass the naturalization test:
When 71 percent of Americans were unable to identify the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, 48 percent could not define the bill of rights and 62 percent could not identify the governor of their state, then we have a problem. I may forget all the biology, geometry and trigonometry that I learned in high school but don't use today. But I need to know how the government operates at all levels because it affects me every day. And I need to know the basic fundamentals of our history that make this country the great country that it is.
Trisha Powell Crain is Executive Director of Alabama School Connection, an online news site devoted to covering and thus propelling K-12 education into Alabama's everyday conversations:
A civics test sounds simple, right? Spit out some memorized facts about dead presidents and long-ago-written documents and wham, you're a good citizen, right?
Civics and memorized historical facts aren't the same. Civics is the study of the rights and duties of citizenship. Boiling this broad subject matter down to a 10-question test (of how well you've memorized those facts) does nothing but cheapen the subject of civics.
The quick fix of requiring students to take a test will do little to fix what ails civics education and civic engagement in Alabama.
It might make our legislators feel good for a moment, but what Alabamians really need in order improve our civic and citizenship skills can't be taught in a few classes in school nor encouraged by a one-dimensional test.
Sam Stone is Executive Director of the Civics Education Initiative, Joe Foss Institute, one of the groups championing citizenship test legislation:
Are we currently teaching civics in our schools? The answer is, "yes," sort of. Although ten states have no requirement at all, most states do have some mandatory civics or government classes included in their standards. However, as the data indicates, those lessons aren't sinking in very well. That's why we at the Joe Foss Institute created the Civics Education Initiative with a goal of seeing all 50 states pass our basic legislation by September 17, 2017 - the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Our goal is twofold: 1) to ensure every student has at least the same very, very basic understanding of our government and civic institutions that we require of new immigrants before they can become citizens. And, 2) to create a national conversation about the need to improve civic education and awareness for citizens across the country.
For decades I have often read and heard mistaken opinions and arguments related to immigration laws and policy. Angry polemics, politics too often leave sound policy debate in the dust.
The exam given by Citizenship and Naturalization Services covers basic structures and processes of government, as well as the names of a few historical personages. It is a good start for a new citizen but Alabama citizens should know more. Let's let teachers do their job better and fund innovative civics teaching.
We see evidence of the need for civic literacy every day. Some people argue "majority rules," as justification to trample on the constitutional rights of others. A misguided few currently defend the right of individual states to ignore the Constitution when it suits them. The words of the Founding Fathers are twisted to fit multiple agendas that must have our forbearers spinning in their graves.
Dr. George Prewett, a retired educator, taught history at Mountain Brook High School for 21 years; he has a PhD in History from the University of Alabama:
Questions on the test for prospective, naturalized citizens are designed to gauge a foreigner's basic understanding of America's history, its government, and its culture. The typical questions in no way measure depth of understanding of the way America works. Take, for example, "name one branch or part of the government," or, "what did Susan B. Anthony do?" If high school history and government teachers were asked to administer the test, they would find it to be an insult to their students' intelligence.
Administering it to high school students would be as worthwhile as asking high school baseball hopefuls to name the 4 bases on the field. The correct answer would hardly certify their readiness for the game, unless one was competing at T-ball.
Sexy librarian Ela Darling and alt honey Draven Star had been crushing out on each other from afar for a while and at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas in January, performer/director Courtney Trouble was savvy enough to get the two of them together for a scene in a hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. This is Trouble Films' "Ela and Draven" and wow, it is some very hot girl/girl action. Holy fuck, these two are hot and they really, really get each other off.
Star really uses her skills to just get her fingers going on Darling's G-spot while she munches on Darling's box. Star stays on her and makes sure that she gets every bit of orgasm out of Darling. I can not recommend this scene enough for fans of girl/girl action. Wow, there is chemistry to spare between these two. Darling professes her love to Draven--the fucking is that good. Star cries tears of joy--the fucking is that good. I seriously adore this scene and how much these two adore each other. Star just looks like the best fuck in the world here. I want her!
There's this crazy statistic going around about the number of people who admit that they've both worked, and jerked, while on the job! Well, if you're one of those naughty workers who just can't refrain from checking out a little bit of NSFW action in the office, Asa Akira knows a thing or two about how to get away with indulging in all of those dirty websites that you don't want your employer to see.
This video, recorded by Complex, features the sexy porn star Asa Akira giving a few tips and tricks on how to get around all of that work-monitored-Internet-use mumbo jumbo. Of course, a porn star would be a fantastic person to tell you exactly how you can get dirty without leaving an electronic trail! It really doesn't hurt that she's so fucking hot either.
So if you've been fighting off the urge to check out NSFW content without getting caught, well, you might have just stumbled across all the answers you need to get down and dirty solo style right there on the job! Remember, these are just answers; you'll still need to make sure to supply your own tissues! Alright seriously though, don't make it weird.
Shelton Woolright and Natalie Bassingwaighte have been named as the new X Factor judges. Photo / supplied
Shelton Woolright and Natalie Bassingthwaighte have been named as the two new X Factor NZ judges.
Woolright is the former drummer of Auckland nu-metal band Blindspott who had a string of local hits throughout the noughties. He is now a member of I Am Giant.
Bassingthwaighte is a former cast member of Neighbours who went on to become the singer in electro-pop band Rogue Traders before embarking on a solo career. She has been a judge on The X Factor Australia.
Woolright told hosts on The Edge Radio station he had got a phone call about the producers yesterday and at first thought it was a prank.
He said he was excited and "absolutely freaking out" about the role.
Bassingthwaighte's debut solo album 1000 Stars topped the Australian charts when it was released in 2009.
Bassingthwaighte is looking after the boys in the competition while Woolright will be in charge of the bands.
"I think we are going to win this hands down," said Bassingthwaighte who has been an X Factor Australia judge for four seasons, though she hasn't won any of the competitions.
The two new judges replace Willy Moon and Natalia Kills, who were axed on Monday following a bullying controversy surrounding contestant Joe Irvine on Sunday night's show.
Neither new judge offered any strong opinions on the controversy which has got them their roles with Bassingthwaighte saying: "Look, I think the whole point of the show is about nurturing talent."
Despite MediaWorks saying the comments of Kills and Moon was unacceptable, the announcement of the new judges was promoted on The Edge using soundbites of Kills' verbal attack on Irvine.
Woolright regularly featured in the social pages when he went out for a year with model Nicky Watson in the mid 2000s.
Watson left him for Dancing With the Stars judge, Brendan Cole. When Blindspott split up in 2007 and later reformed without him Woolright took legal action against his former band members for using the band name. The group continued as Blacklistt.
Co-executive producer Andrew Szusterman said: "We couldn't be happier to have secured Natalie and Shelton as the new X Factor NZ judges. Shelton has the perfect background to be mentoring our bands and Natalie's experience in the judge's seat for the X Factor Australia is invaluable."
Iceland is going under some serious political change.
The country's Pirate Party, formed under three years ago, is now leading one political poll.
The Pirate Party idea started originally in Sweden as an organisation advocating direct democracy, freedom of information, anti-corruption and net neutrality.
Since then, parties with the same name and similar values have popped up around the world.
In comparison, the UK Pirate Party managed an average of 0.34% of the General Election 2010 vote in the nine constituencies they were standing in.
The UK Pirate Party is not as popular as the Icelandic one
The Pirate Party in Iceland would receive 23.9% of votes and the Independence Party would come second with 23.4%, polling suggests.
Until now, the Independence Party had been the party which polled highest for the ENTIRE HISTORY OF ICELAND AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.
The reason for this upturn in popularity appears to echo the reasons given much closer to home about a distrust of existing politicians:
"To be completely honest: I don’t know why we enjoy so much trust," MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, the captain of the Pirate Party, told Visir.
"We are all just as surprised, thankful and take this as a sign of mistrust towards conventional politics.
“Traditional politics have not shown progress and people are tired of waiting for change. It is good that people are rejecting corruption and hubris.
“We take this with humility. This must be a clear message to the government, especially to The Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) and their arbitrary governance.”
