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Where the culture goes, so goes the electorate and then eventually self-government. So where does that leave us? Apparently “twerking” before the ruling class. For the newly initiated, “twerking” is described as a “low squatting dance” that involves “moving ones buttocks in a circular, up-and-down, and side-to-side motion; basically a slutty dance derived from strip clubs”. Miley Cyrus demonstrated on national television recently by grinding her rump up against her male co-star on stage. Real classy. With each passing year, what passes for popular “culture” has become progressively more low-brow and increasingly sexed up. So-called “celebrities” are usually just famous...

If you don’t know what twerking is yet, I’ll explain it one more time. To “twerk,” as the kids say, is not your average Jennifer Gray/Patrick Swayze dirty dancing. In fact, it makes their bump and grind look like the foxtrot. I was in Oklahoma last year hanging out with my cousins at a rodeo bar (yeah, I know it’s cliché but when in OK City, it’s A-Ok to go full-on cowgirl). I was beyond perplexed when I realized I brought my red leather cowboy boots down hard on some poor girl’s fingers on the dance floor. What were her...

Well, it was bound to happen eventually. This week, during the Miss America swimsuit competition, Miss Kansas is going to show her tattoos, breaking a long-standing taboo. Link and pics below..

(CNN) -- Ok, people, let's say it all together again: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. -snip- Monday night, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel had the girl on his show where the pair offered up the big reveal -- the rest of the video. As the girl is screaming, Kimmel, wearing an identical pink T-shirt, rushes in, fire extinguisher in hand. He puts out the fire, then flashes a thumbs up at the camera. The girl's real name is not Caitlin Heller, but rather Daphne Avalon. She's a stuntwoman.

I’m headed back east overland from my annual systems analysis and upgrade at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Don’t worry - I have a special program that detects any “uninvited” malware that have been surreptitiously added  - like Gerard had installed by NSA operatives in Croatia last week. Butt don’t worry Gerard, they’re “not targeting conservative websites.”So, until I can get a real post together from the road here’s an instructional video that everybody can learn something from. I call it “don’t drink (note bottle on coffee table) and twerk.” Especially while doing a handstand; with lit candles in...

MILEY Cyrus, this one is on you. A young woman has injured herself, catching on fire, in an awkward and embarrassing imitation of Miley's favourite dance move twerking. Cyrus's infamous performance at the MTV Awards (the VMAs) is behind the proliferation of "twerking" in popular culture. [snip] Now we're up to speed on twerking, let's examine this near-serious incident in which a girl intends to use the booty-shaking move to surprise her boyfriend. Three elements of the scene pose inevitable doom: 1) Twerking up against a door in a blindspot; 2) Twerking near lit candles; 3) Twerking near lit candles...

Some defenders of Miley Cyrus' VMA performance don't understand what all the outrage is about. Justin Timberlake tweeted, "She's young. Take it easy on her." Lena Dunham worried about "slut shaming." Russell Simmons wrote "Just saw @MileyCyrus. What did I miss. She was having fun. #twerkmileytwerk." And Adam Lambert tweeted " ... Listen if it wasn't ur cup of tea -- all good but why is everyone spazzing? Hey -- she's doin something right. We all talkin." Cyrus seemed to endorse Lambert's any-attention-is-good-attention rationale. She boasted on Twitter that "Smilers! My VMA performance had 306.000 tweets per minute. That's more...

I was thinking about the Miley Cyrus kerfuffle the other night while watching a Duck Dynasty marathon. I'm a recent convert to the show, being wary of most of what falls under the category "reality show." One can never be sure when treading into the dark waters of so-called "reality" TV that Miss Kay is at all different from Mama June. Miley is taking a bit of a beating for her performance on MTV's Video Music Awards. While the backlash is understandable -- she is an adult and therefore responsible for her own behavior -- did she really even stand...

You know, it amazes me how Black people collectively get accused for everything that is wrong with our nation. We appear at the top of the list when it comes to issues that many people consider to be controversial, heinous or criminal. Whether it’s the issue of welfare, homicide, drugs, violent crime, prison, school dropouts, negative entertainment or single-parent households, you can’t help but see Black people get paraded out front in the mainstream media like they are the only group of folks in the country that are contributing to the problems associated with them. I was recently watching the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This Miley Cyrus incident from Sunday night, "twerking" on the MTV Music Awards, continues to be discussed. I ran across something today I really want to share with you about the curriculum at many (one particularly, but I'm sure at many other) universities and colleges in this country. The curricula has been co-opted by the radical feminists for a long time. It is one of the reasons male enrollment at universities is way down. It is also explanatory in certain ways about what kind of women, the way they think and act, are being graduated from these...

When I was around ten years old, my mom decided that my younger sisters and I should not watch the most popular children’s show of the time, Power Rangers. She feared that the violence of the show would make us more likely to be aggressive, especially given the fact that every time she picked us up from school, at least two of the other kids in the class would be kicking each other while shouting slogans from the show. So she made us a deal: we wouldn’t watch Power Rangers, and she would pay an extra fee so we could...

Twerking, the rump-busting up-and-down dance move long beloved on America’s hip-hop scene, has officially gone mainstream. It’s got the English dictionary entry to prove it. Britain’s Oxford Dictionaries said the rapid-fire gyrations employed by U.S. pop starlet Miley Cyrus to bounce her way to the top of the charts had become increasingly visible in the past 12 months and would be added to its publications under the entry: “Twerk, verb.” …

Myrtle Beach (SC) police charged a North Carolina woman with indecent exposure after officers warned her about wearing a thong swimsuit along Ocean Boulevard, according to an arrest report. Tiara Monique Garness, 22, of High Point, N.C., was arrested at 5 a.m. Friday in the 1700 block of Ocean Boulevard, the report said. Officers charged her with the misdemeanor offense after she was warned twice by officers to cover up. A covered up Garness was taken to the Myrtle Beach Jail on a $469 cash bond, according to jail records.

Two San Diego Unified school board members want to review the level of punishment handed down to 31 students at Scripps Ranch High School this week over a video made at school that depicts "twerking," a suggestive manner of dancing. School board member Scott Barnett said Thursday that he plans to request that the twerking incident and the student punishments be discussed in closed session at Tuesday's board meeting. "I want to make sure I am comfortable that the facts and activity warrant the consequences," Barnett said in a statement. San Diego Unified board member Kevin Beiser, whose district includes...