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Greek Politician Punches Female Opponent On Live TV

June 7, 2012, 3:04 am
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The live debate is a moment that can make or break a politician's career. This guy didn't just break his career, he shattered it into 1,000 pieces.

It started with a debate leading up to the June 17 elections, when Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman for Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, got way too fired up. Everything was going about as expected between the rightie and noted lefties Rena Dorou and Liana Kanelli (everyone was screaming over everyone else and no one was listening) when things quickly went downhill for Kasidiaris.

First, Dorou referenced a court case pending against Kasidiaris and he responded in kind...by throwing a glass of water in her face. Then Kanelli got out of her chair to try to calm Kasidiaris down -- and he threw three punches at her. Classic political discourse.

A public prosecutor immediately called for Kasidiaris' arrest following the attacks. Needless to say, we doubt this video will make an appearance in his next campaign commercial.

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BASE Jumper Records First-Person Brush With Death

June 7, 2012, 3:55 am
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On January 17, BASE jumper Jeb Corliss recorded his leap off South Africa's Table Mountain. The film was going to be used to showcase the spectacular views Corliss experiences on his jumps. Instead, it recorded a near-fatal disaster.

One slight miscalculation in BASE jumping can throw everything into complete chaos, and on this day, Corliss and his team had made a mistake. The result was the closest call in Corliss' career. Less than halfway through his flight, Corliss smashed into a wall of granite at 120 miles per hour. "When I impacted, I genuinely believed I was dead," Corliss said. "From the instant I touched, I went, That's it. It's over. I knew I was dead, just like I know water is wet."

After his initial impact with the side of the mountain, Corliss was dealing with a broken wing suit. After losing control, Corliss had to figure out if he was going to pull his safety parachute and try to wait it out for an improbable rescue in unbearable pain or give up and let himself die upon instant impact with the next wall of rocks on the mountain. Corliss chose the chute and lived to say, "It was a difficult choice to make. From impact to deployment was around six seconds, but it felt like minutes."

The final damage was bad, but nothing life threatening: two broken bones in the ankle, a broken fibula, minor kidney issues tied to dehydration (it was 120 degrees that day), and a large open wound on the right shin. If you watch the video, you'll be shocked that these were the only injuries Corliss suffered. He expects a full recovery, although he lost the ACL in his left knee, which means there is still more jumping in Corliss' future.

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10 Badass Popes

June 7, 2012, 7:00 am
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    During the period between the fall of Rome and the declaration of Papal infallibility the Roman Catholic Church was sometimes hard to distinguish from another traditionally Italian institution, the Mafia. At that time, all sorts of shrewd and sneaky schmucks infiltrated monasteries and seminaries, playing politics and pursuing power, and more often the key to eternal life and salvation was not prayer and good works but paying your weekly protection fee.

    This eventually resulted in a whole lot of Popes that the Church isn't really proud of nowadays. Nevertheless, these gangsta popes deserve to be recognized for their cleverness and occasional supervillain-style.

    10. JOHN XXII (1316-1334)

    Compared to most popes on this list, John the 22nd was sort of a low-key guy-no big crazy orgies, no chasing sexy boys around, and relatively few instances of calling in a hit on his political or ecumenical (church-political) enemies. He's on his list for three main reasons: one, he was one of the Avignon Popes, who were all French dudes working for the French king and trying to make everything a little bit more French, which everyone else in Europe was really not down with at all; two, he was a huge opponent of the Franciscan monks and their belief that service to the Church implied a life of poverty and self-restraint (as opposed to his belief that service to the Church implied a life of drinking wine and making mad bank); three, he was sort of an awesomely sneaky and untrustworthy dude.

    John XXII's most important and funniest trick was the one he played on the Roman cardinals in order to have himself made Pope in the first place. John's predecessor Clement V was the first of the Avignon Popes, but had died under mysterious circumstances before he was able to gain sufficient control over Church bureaucracy. The Roman cardinals found John's theology acceptable, and they were fairly grateful that he was probably the one who killed Clement, but they wanted assurance that this Avignon crap would stop and that Rome would remain the capital of the Church. John personally swore that until the papacy was returned to its rightful place in Rome, he would never allow himself to go from place to place on horseback ever again-and since he was 72 that basically meant he could never move more than ten miles in any direction without keeling over and dying. The Roman cardinals elected him Pope and he promptly walked down to the port and traveled to Avignon by boat, where he was perfectly happy to stay. Sucks to be you, Rome!
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    9. BENEDICT IX (1032-1036, 1037-1045, 1046-1048)

    A refreshing change from all the creaky old popes who spent all their time debating theology and who died in office, Benedict IX mostly occupied himself with getting laid and got himself chased out of Rome no less than three times, the third time at the tip of a bunch of Imperial German spears. The nephew of Benedict VIII and John XIX, Benedict IX was basically forced into the family business by his dad when he was 18 or 20.

    Considered the first primarily gay Pope, he was first kicked out of Rome for throwing gay orgies in the Lateran Palace, but managed to sneak back the following year. In 1045, he voluntarily sold the office of the Pope to his godfather in order to marry his (female) cousin for some reason, but he must've really missed those dude-orgies because he was back again the next year and fighting with his godfather as well as the other guys who occasionally stepped in to run things as Pope. After a couple years of this Pope-of-the-month silliness, the Holy Roman Emperor (actually a secular German king at the time) stepped in, shooed away all the Popes and rentboys, hopefully hosed out the Lateran Palace, and installed a completely boring reform-minded German bishop as Leo IX.
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    8. BONIFACE VIII (1294-1303)

    Boniface VIII was elected Pope after his predecessor, Celestine V, more or less chickened out of the papacy and voluntarily stepped down. Boniface is best remembered for totally turning Popery up to 11 with his 1302 Unam Sanctam, which declared that it was "absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman pontiff" and managed to piss off nearly everybody in Europe, including the king of France, the Holy Roman Emperor, and Dante Aligheri, who was the snarky political blogger of his time-this portrait shows Boniface after reading Dante's most recent ice-cold burn.

    Unfortunately, the problem with using the office of the Pope to tell the most powerful crowned heads of Europe "Come at me, bro!" is that then those bros will absolutely come at you, and they'll be bringing an army with them. After excommunicating King Phillip IV of France and his chief minister Guillaume de Nogaret for the crime of frontin', Boniface took some time off at his Italian retreat in Anagni to chill, where was surprised to discover a small army led by one of the dudes he had just excommunicated. After refusing to step down and de-excommunicate the King and his minister, Boniface VIII had the crap kicked out of him, died of his injuries, and had a really mean poem written about him by Dante. Ouch!
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    7. JOHN XII (936-964)

    John XII is a little tricky in that nearly everything we know about his run as Pope was written by guys who hated them and had a big chip on his shoulder. We do know for certain that he was made Pope at the age of 18 after a career of exactly zero years in the Church. How did he manage this cherry position?

    Well, John didn't actually manage anything; his dad, the patrician (mayor/governor/big dawg) of Rome made church officials swear to make his loser son Pope upon the patrician's death.

    Other historical records show that his heart wasn't really into the whole Pope thing, as enemy armies claimed a lot of papal land that he wasn't willing or able to try and grab back.

    As a solution, he cut a deal with King Otto I of the Germans, which re-started the Holy Roman Empire that would spend much of its existence tangling with and occasionally declaring war on the Church.

    In fact, Otto found good reason to pick a fight with his supposed ally pretty quickly, after John tried to renege on their deal by trying to get the Eastern Orthodox church back on his side.

    But that's just the stuff we know for sure. The allegations of John's enemies were a lot more fun, including that he toasted the Devil with wine, ran a whorehouse inside the Lateran Palace, banged everybody's wife, had a dude's dick chopped off after an argument, and apparently set a bunch of fires just because he thought it was cool.
    I think we've all had a friend sort of like John XII, and while he was sort of small-time compared to other gangsta popes, certain traditions he started (especially an official Pope-sponsored brothel-man are we going to see a lot of those) came to define what it meant to be Big Popin'.
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    6. PAUL III (1534-1549)

    Although far from the least deserving or qualified guy who was made pope, Paul III was notable for getting the papal nod almost entirely because his sister was having sex with one of the earlier popes, Alexander VI (who we'll definitely talk more about later).

    Occasionally referred to as "Pope Brother-In-Law," Paul mostly just chilled out, bought art, and got jobs for his kids, often as cardinals. He accomplished a few significant things mostly by accident, such as founding the Jesuits, and he wrote one of the first papal condemnations of slavery with his Sublimus Dei (not that anyone currently making money off of slavery was willing to listen) shortly before turning around and repealing an anti-slavery provision in Rome in order to cut down on the city's homeless population.

    Ironically, in spite of having kids all over town and having acquired his job principally by having a Pope-banging sister, Paul III is chiefly remembered for finally excommunicating Henry VIII the whole "murdering or divorcing six different women" thing.

    Hank retaliated by forming the Anglican Church, which was essentially the Chinese counterfeit ePad to Catholicism's iPad, with the crucial difference being that the King of England could have sex with whoever the hell he wanted.
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    5. SIXTUS IV (1471-1484)

    No, his name doesn't mean Six the Fourth-Sixtus is an old Greco-Latin name meaning "polished," and he was the first pope to choose the name Sixtus since the 5th century. Why?

    Because the dude was totally polished, investing in a number of great art projects in and around Rome, such as a little place you may have heard of called the Sistine Chapel. To pay for this and other fun stuff, he eschewed the usual gangsta pope technique of running whorehouses and shaking down kings and instead declared a new fundraising effort to renew the Crusades against the Turks.

    This round of fundraising was remarkably successful in every way except for how the Crusade itself never actually got launched, but hey, check out this awesome painting on the ceiling!

    Even though Six-Four's art patronage played a big part in the introduction of the Renaissance, he's primarily known for his nepotism (which is sort of dumb, since half the popes on this list were Pope because they were somebody's son/cousin/nephew/guy they were having sex with) and for really, really wanting to kill Florentine big shot banker Lorenzo de'Medici.

    Sixtus IV was generally considered to have messed around in local Italian politics more than was good for him, and his attempt to replace Florence's ruling family with one friendlier to him blew up in his face when de'Medici turned around and had all of Sixy's Florentine pet bishops executed. 
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    4. SERGIUS III (904-911)

    Another 10th-century Original Gangsta Pope, Sergius III won the office by having such good sex with his friend Theophylact's wife Theodora that she told her husband to go ahead and make him Pope, which must have been a pretty awkward conversation but has to be the most awesome way to become Pope.

    Sergius' reign began the period that boring papal historians refer to as the "saeculum obscurum" (or "dark age") and what awesome papal historians refer to as the Pornocracy (or "rule of the harlots" which is a little less cool), in that it featured ineffectual Popes who usually did whatever their favorite mistress told them to do.

    This meant that Theodora basically ran the Church for a few years until Sergius kicked her to the curb and took up with her daughter Marozia, who eventually gave birth to an illegitimate son who later on became Pope John XI. Handy!

    Other than having hot sexy sex, Sergius' most notable achievement was digging up the corpse of Pope Formosus (a former political enemy) and chucking it in the river.

    This wouldn't be too noteworthy if it was not actually the second time Pope F had been dug up by a dude who hated him, as previous totally crazy (but regrettably not very gangsta) Pope Stephen VI had not just exhumed Formosus' corpse but put it on trial, convicted it of perjury, and cut off its fingers. Man, were those dudes ever pissed at Formosus!
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    3. CLEMENT VI (1342-1352)

    The fourth Avignon Pope (two popes after John XXII), Clement VI was by any measure a pretty decent dude. Taking office while the Black Plague swept Europe, he extended a "remission of sins" (sort of a Papal blanket pardon) to everybody who died of the Plague that hadn't had the chance to confess or receive last rites.

    Upon hearing that Europe's Jews were being blamed for the Plague (because Jews got blamed for literally anything bad or even unexpected that happened in Europe, from sick cows to solar eclipses), Clement issued not one but two Papal bulls telling everyone to lay off the Jews and ordering all Catholic clergy to explain that those who blamed Jews for the plague had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil."

    The "problem" with Clement VI was simply that the dude loved to party. While his predecessor Benedict XII was a clean-living earnest sort of guy, Clement almost immediately declared that "[his] predecessors did not know how to be Pope" and began painting over all the boring Crucifixion and martyrdom murals in the Avignon Vatican with more awesome fun scenes of hunting and fishing and dancing and such.

    A lover of good music, Clement VI surrounded himself with composers and performers just in case he needed to throw an awesome Papal rager that required musical accompaniment. Many sources even report that Clement VI even bought up an old French palace to be used as a brothel that would both fund his parties and supply them with fine French hoes. When you get right down to it, Clement VI was basically just way too cool to be Pope.
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    2. LEO X (1513-1521)

    Leo X is on the list because his stated philosophy was "Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it."  

    Leo enjoyed the papacy so much that he managed to bankrupt it in two years, which he solved by pawning off some of the Church's priceless treasures, building a few more brothels and boosting the sale of indulgences, which were basically "get out of hell free" cards.

    Leo loved the arts and sciences, donated heavily to charity, was an excellent musician, and was said to be so likable that he was elected Pope just because everyone thought he was a really cool guy-although being the scion of the super-wealthy and powerful de Medici clan probably greased the skids a bit too. Leo X was a high-rolling party animal, and by that time the rest of the Church was totally cool with that.

    But some people were watching Leo rollin,' they were hatin,' and decided to catch him riding dirty in the eyes of the Lord. German theologian and legendarily un-fun guy, Martin Luther, was so angry about Leo's good-natured heresy that he posted his 95 Theses and ended up starting Protestantism, countless European wars, libraries worth of complicated religious arguments, and eventually, America.

    When was the last time you partied so hard that your uptight neighbors formed a new country just to get away from you?
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    1. ALEXANDER VI (1492-1503)

    If you lived in Europe at the turn of the 16th century, you would know Alexander VI as the guy who assassinated, enslaved, purchased you for use in one of his orgies, or (hopefully for your sake) bribed so that he could be elected Pope.

    Yup, Alexander straight-up bought the Papacy, although he had a head start on the affair after his uncle Pope Calixtus III got him a sweet gig in the Church bureaucracy. He then commenced orgying it up old-school, having at least seven illegitimate kids, and murdering anyone who objected, anyone who disappointed him, or anyone who looked at him funny. No less than Giovanni de'Medici (the future Leo X) responded to his election with the words "Now we are in the power of a wolf, the most rapacious perhaps that this world has ever seen. And if we do not flee, he will inevitably devour us all." The joke was ultimately on Al, however-forensic evidence suggests that his death was the result of his similarly deadly and orgulous son Cesare accidentally poisoning his and his fathers' own dinner.

 

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The Women of USA's White Collar

June 7, 2012, 7:32 am
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    As one of the world's most notorious con-artists Neal Caffrey knows all the tricks of the trade and then some. Thankfully, the women of White Collar (new seasons airing July 10th on USA at 9/8c!) are there to keep his immense ego in check and teach him the occasional lesson. If you're not acquainted with them or need a refresher course then check out our gallery featuring these very smart and very lovely ladies.

    Elizabeth Burke - Tiffani Thiessen

    Many spouses would wilt under the weight of being married to a workaholic FBI agent who has hitched his career to a con-artist, but not Elizabeth Burke. She offers husband Peter a keen perspective on his casework while making sure he stays on the straight and narrow. For many this would be more than a full-time job, however Elizabeth still finds time to be a successful event planner. The man married well as they say.

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    Sara Ellis - Hilarie Burton

    When most people think of the insurance industry they don't think of glamour and intrigue. However, if they met Sara Ellis they may change their opinion. She's a relentless and extremely skilled insurance investigator who has bested some of the world's most cunning thieves. Couple that with her willingness to use her good looks in pursuit of her adversaries and you can see why she's so successful.

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    Diana Barrigan - Marsha Thomason

    The FBI was founded in 1908 but the first female agent wasn't sworn in until 1972. Yes, the culture has evolved in the last 40 years but make no mistake for a woman to succeed in the Bureau they need to be exceptionally intelligent and tough. Agent Diana Barrigan fits that mold and then some. That is why her boss Agent Peter Burke considers her such an indispensible part of his team and his most trusted colleague.

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    Guest Stars: 

    Raquel Laroque - Eliza Dushku

    Episode: "On the Fence"

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    FBI Agent - Sheena Colette

    Episode: "Upper West Side Story"

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    Jennifer Missoni - Shannon

    Episode: "Scott Free"

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    Miranda - Tess Soltau

    Episodes: "Checkmate" and "Neighborhood Watch"

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    Isabelle Wilson - Rochelle Aytes

    Episode: "As you were"

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    Selena Thomas - Mädchen Amick

    Episode: "Veiled Threat"

    Be sure to catch the new season of White Collar on USA Network July 10th at 9pm/8c

 

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The Mister Rogers Remix: Education Meets Smooth Funk

June 7, 2012, 9:46 am
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This mashup helps you learn many important lessons from Mister Rogers. And you won't stop bobbing your head once. Put together by Symphony of Science's John Boswell (aka melodysheep), this video keeps it real. Real educational. Put on your cardigan and enjoy.

 

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The Bad Luck Brian Meme

June 7, 2012, 12:42 pm
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Vida Guerra in Very Limited Release Photos

June 7, 2012, 1:13 pm
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    One of the most lusted-after women in the world, Vida Guerra burst onto the scene with a 2002 FHM photo shoot, and has not stopped bringing the sexiness. In this gallery you'll see why the voluptuous model is so popular, with some very limited release photos. Enjoy livin' la vida Vida Guerra.

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    Vida Guerra was born in Havana, Cuba, but moved to New Jersey with her family when she was 6.

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    Growing up, Guerra entered several fashion shows modeling swimwear, not afraid to strut her stuff in a G-string.

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    In Decemeber 2002, FHM featured Guerra in a lingerie spread. This was her big break, as readers flooded FHM's mail box with demands for more of her. She went on to become "FHM's Model of the Year" in 2004.

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    Vida Guerra shook her butt in P. Diddy's "Shake Ya Tailfeather" music video.

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    She also posed nude for Playboy, and her shoot was featured in the July 2006 issue.

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    One of the most lusted-after women in the world, Vida Guerra burst onto the scene with a 2002 FHM photo shoot, and has not stopped bringing the sexiness. In this gallery you'll see why the voluptuous model is so popular, with some very limited release photos. Enjoy livin' la vida Vida Guerra.

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    One of the most lusted-after women in the world, Vida Guerra burst onto the scene with a 2002 FHM photo shoot, and has not stopped bringing the sexiness. In this gallery you'll see why the voluptuous model is so popular, with some very limited release photos. Enjoy livin' la vida Vida Guerra.

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    One of the most lusted-after women in the world, Vida Guerra burst onto the scene with a 2002 FHM photo shoot, and has not stopped bringing the sexiness. In this gallery you'll see why the voluptuous model is so popular, with some very limited release photos. Enjoy livin' la vida Vida Guerra.

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    One of the most lusted-after women in the world, Vida Guerra burst onto the scene with a 2002 FHM photo shoot, and has not stopped bringing the sexiness. In this gallery you'll see why the voluptuous model is so popular, with some very limited release photos. Enjoy livin' la vida Vida Guerra.

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    One of the most lusted-after women in the world, Vida Guerra burst onto the scene with a 2002 FHM photo shoot, and has not stopped bringing the sexiness. In this gallery you'll see why the voluptuous model is so popular, with some very limited release photos. Enjoy livin' la vida Vida Guerra.

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    One of the most lusted-after women in the world, Vida Guerra burst onto the scene with a 2002 FHM photo shoot, and has not stopped bringing the sexiness. In this gallery you'll see why the voluptuous model is so popular, with some very limited release photos. Enjoy livin' la vida Vida Guerra.

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    Vida Guerra

 

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The Heat, Lebron, Must Win Tonight for This Distraught Young Man

June 7, 2012, 1:23 pm
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It seems the Heat have a lot more at stake in Game 6 versus the Celtics than just their title hopes. If they lose tonight, this poor Chinese man will lose his faith, and possibly another one of his shirts. Oh, and in case you didn't know, Rondo is not a beautiful girl.

 

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All the Odd Places Jesus Has Been Found

June 7, 2012, 1:24 pm
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ESPN Forgets One of The Most Famous First Half Performances Ever

June 7, 2012, 4:03 pm
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Look, LeBron absolutely exploded tonight and put together one of the best NBA playoff games of all time. But the ESPN graphics department made a mistake during LBJ's halftime interview. The graphic stated that 30 points tied for the most points in any NBA playoff game half ever. But even the most casual basketball fan has to remember Michael Jordan going off for six three-pointers against the Portland Trailblazers to finish the first half of Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals with 35 points. Looks like the Worldwide Leader in Sports dropped the ball here.

When asked for comment, Michael Jordan only had this to say...

 

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Disturbing Wedding Photos

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25 Inappropriately Hilarious Tweets

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Friendly Flatmates, Marta and April

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski

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    April Hobbs

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Marta Dabrowski (blonde) and April Hobbs (brunette) are two lovely models from Australia who enjoy living together. Whether they are cooking, cleaning, playing video games or just lounging around, they make sure to do it together, with the utmost amount of comfort and sexiness. Teamwork and unity are important to any successful roommate relationship, so we applaud their efforts. Keep it up, girls!

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    Bowe Bergdahl is the only American prisoner the Taliban has to trade. As it is, he could be the key to ending the longest war in America's history. Now the United States government just needs to figure out how to get him back.

    Bergdahl has been unaccounted for by the Army since June 30th, 2009, when he walked off base without explanation and with little supplies. By early that evening, he had been captured by the Taliban. Three years later, there aren't many signs of progress in getting Bergdahl back. 

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    In e-mail correspondence with his family before his disappearance, Bergdahl expressed a growing unhappiness with his experiences in Afghanistan. His unit was filled with incompetent soldiers and a lack of leadership. His negative tone in these e-mails has made some question his commitment to the Army.

    Five days before his disappearance, Bergdahl's unit suffered its first casualty. Two days later, Bergdahl wrote his final e-mails home, filled with unhappy thoughts on how his experience at war had unfolded.

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    On June 30th, 2009, Bergdahl left camp armed with only a digital camera, his knife, his diary and some water. It was the last time anyone would see him as a free man.

    Within 24 hours, US Intelligence intercepted a conversation between two Taliban fighters discussing their new American prisoner. The fighters understood that they could use their new find to lure the Army search teams into their territory.

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    The next day, there was an opportunity to free Bergdahl during a face to face meeting between American forces and two tribal elders representing the Taliban. When the Taliban asked for 15 soldiers and a sum of money, the American rep hesitated. Bergdahl was spotted only seen once more, in July--in the back of a Toyota with a bag over his head--before the first of three propaganda videos surfaced on YouTube.

    In the first video, Bergdahl appears to be still somewhat coherent and speaks in calm, measured tones as he's forced to read anti-American propaganda. Unfortunately, the soldier appears progressively worse in the following videos, causing worry among his family members back home.

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    Bob Bergdahl, Bowe's father, has grown increasingly impatient with rescue efforts. Clashing political agendas in Washington have made negotiations with the Taliban difficult. With American forces incapable of getting on the same page, it's been nearly impossible to create a united front long enough to bargain.

    The fact that Bergdahl left on his own has also created an awkward situation for the Army. Not all soldiers defend his rescue and don't think it's proper to give up prisoners for his return. All of this led to Bergdahl's dad posting his own YouTube clip pleading for the return of his son. Still, to this date, Bergdahl, the only American POW, remains in enemy hands.

 

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    This Sunday, the amazing Kate Upton turns 20 years old. We here at Mandatory want nothing more than for Kate to have the happiest of birthdays (and maybe have a drink with us next year on her 21st). She's a fun girl, so we think she probably will. Speaking of fun, we have gathered some of Kate's best photos from Twitter to click through, so you can be happy, too. Happy Birthday, Kate Upton!

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Age of Consent Around the World

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    There are differing laws all over the world about the age of consent. They have nothing to do with the age to drink, vote or drive a car either. It's all about consensual sex. In some places, the age of consent differs based on gender, sexuality and even sexual acts.

    Historically, the age of consent was a matter for families to decide and usually began when girls menstruated or boys hit puberty. Age of consent laws hit the books around the 16th century in Europe, and in the United States as late as the early 1900s. Without them, Chris Hansen from "To Catch a Predator" would be out of a job.

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    United States of America

    Based on the idea of federalism, there is no consistent age of consent in the country. Individual states decide their own ages of consent. In Oregon, for example, the age is 18; Nebraska, 17; and New Jersey, 16. For more detailed information, click here.

    In New Hampshire, the age of consent is 16 for heterosexual acts, but 18 for homosexual conduct. Why, New Hampshire, why? In the majority of other states, there is a sex allowance for minors under the age of consent, but close to the same age. Not so in New Hampshire. A 16-year-old cannot have sex with a 15-year-old. Proms must suck.

    Due to the PROTECT Act of 2003, citizens of the U.S. are bound by the nation's age of consent laws, even if they are on foreign soil where the age of consent may be lower. The goal is to help prevent "sex tourism" and child prostitution.

    Factoid: The age of consent in Delaware is now 18, but until 1895, it was 7. Delaware is known as our First State, but it seems it was our First State of Statutory Rape.

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    Oman

    In Oman, there is no age of consent. You simply have to be married. And while it is "advisable" that teenagers wait until they turn 18 to get married, there is no legal minimum age for marriage eligibility, meaning anyone can get married at any age.

    Neighboring Qatar and Saudi Arabia have the same law.

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    Colombia

    Along with its drug problems, the birthplace of Sofia Vergara from "Modern Family" has an age of consent of 12 for girls and 14 for boys. That's kind of gross.

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    Panama

    In Panama, the woman/girl also needs to be just a minimum of 12, while the man/boy can be 14. (Still gross.)

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    Swaziland

    Swaziland seems the reverse of Panama. In Swaziland, women/girls need to be 16, while men/boys can be 14. (Less gross, but still a little gross.)

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    Syria

    Age of consent in Syria is lucky number 13. As a teenager, I would've loved this. As a grown man, I'm thinking: (you guessed it) gross.

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    Cameroon

    The West African country of Cameroon. Along with all its other troubles, the age of consent for women and men is 21. Which means newlyweds can experience their first hangovers on their wedding night.

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    Mexico

    Like the United States, the country of Mexico has no consistent age of consent. States decide their own ages. The upper age range is 18, but in some parts, like Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Jalisco, the age is 12.

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    Bermuda

    Many countries, including Bermuda, the Bahamas, Paraguay, Chile, Suriname and Greece, have a higher age of consent for homosexual (male-male) intercourse, usually 18, versus 16 for heterosexual acts. 

    And in other countries, including Algeria, Armenia, Bahrain, Burma, Grenada and many others, male-male sex is banned outright. For more information, click here.

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    Antarctica

    There are no age of consent laws on the floating pole down south. The laws depend on the individual's country of origin. So if you ever go to the ice and snow, you'd better know.

 

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