Hathos Alert

Michelle Collins guides you through "the secret to the ultimate in personal confidence":

A mysterious infomercial has popped up online about “Tajazzling,” and while it takes a good 7 minutes to get to the point, they swear it will make you feel more “confident” knowing you look, smell, and (NC-17 word, prepare yourselves) taste as good as can be. “From Pretty Woman to Glamorous Goddess” seems to be the running thing, despite the fact that 99 percent of the people in the ad are on disability for not being mentally whole.

And the acting!!! The acting is BEYOND TO DIE FOR!!

She also provides "timecodes for the best moments".

Hathos Alert

FrumForum live-blogged Sarah Palin’s Alaska last night. I couldn’t face it without the option of rinsing it from my brain with The Walking Dead, but I DVRed it and will do my duty at some point. A highlight:

Its official: Kate Gosselin is the bigger diva. I know that many people would expect FrumForum to try and find some way to critique [sic] Palin, but who would want to go camping with someone whose description of camping is… well, this:

“Why would you pretend to be homeless?”

Dear Kate Gosselin, being able to sleep in a tent with food at the ready is not the same as being homeless. The lack of hand sanitizer is not the worst thing ever.

Hathos Alert – And A New Contest

Miley Cyrus wants “forgiveness and love”. But it was very hard to forgive this from last night’s AMA:

Which prompts the thought of a contest: what is the worst pop song designed to reflect a profound moral conscience, a political cause, or a general form of celebrity-as-intellectual-activist? I.e. the smuggest, most pretentious pop song in history? We haven’t had a contest in a while, so let’s call this one “Shut Up And Sing.” For the thing to work, we need you to provide a Youtube of the song – either music video or live performance. Group “We Are The World” efforts are not eligible.

Hathos Red Alert

Bristol Palin and The Situation – we kid you not – teach your kids about safe sex. The hathos can sometimes be too much:

Michael Scherer marvels:

This video just includes so much in such a short amount of time. Is there any cultural artifact from 2010 that more perfectly captures the state of our nation? Put this in the history books, play it on the exploratory satellites, carve it in our corn fields.

With the Palins, just when you think you’ve reached the total nadir of narcissism, hypocrisy, shamelessness and tackiness, a trap door opens beneath you and you fall down another storey.