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Seems like everyone from Nicole Kidman to the Pregnant Man are giving birth.

Woof.

Madame Tussaud’s opened its doors for the first time in Berlin Saturday morning. And the second visitor to enter the door ripped off the head of a wax Adolph Hitler.

While the wax figure stirred controversy from the getgo, the wax museum franchise, as far as I remember from my visits to one in Amsterdam as a child and one in New Amsterdam I would like to forget, puts a historical backdrop of the city or country at the beginning of the museum. Although most people race through this so that they can get next to the Terminator or Bill Clinton, there is more to the museum than pop culture (yes, I know, it hurts). Keeping with this, it would be wrong of Madame Tussaud’s to exclude Hitler from the history of Berlin and Germany. It’s not a pretty history but it most definitely is a history that should not be forgotten. But then again, Europe seems to enjoy hiding from that unfortunate blip on their history. I dare you to try finding a copy of Mein Kampf in a bookstore there. Trust me, you won’t be able to.

I probably would have more sympathy for this executioner if he was an old Holocaust survivor or some boy who has forced into being a member of Hitler Youth. But instead, this guy was born two decades after the concentration camps closed. He also retired from his work as a policeman after he found himself sympathizing with “anarchist lefistist” (can someone explain that conundrum to me?) protesters.

And can we talk about the property rights involved here?!? The Hitler wax dummy cost over a quarter of a million dollars to make. I hope this guy is held responsible and the price isn’t forked over to the visitors who already pay over $20 to enter that fun house.

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I love my gossip, and since I am a woman, I by nature love magazines. So whenever I find myself at a roadstop in south Jersey during my 5 hour pilgrimage, I peruse and occasionally purchase a nice healthy magazine oozing from cover to cover with dirty rumors and makeup ads. My magazine of choice was always US Weekly.

While People Magazine is probably the most respected out of the celeb mags, it always had this hint of elitism to it. While other magazines saw the beginning downward spiral of Britney’s career, People would have a cover story “Inside Brit and Kev’s Dream Wedding! The Dress! The Flowers! The I Do’s!”. People also adds to its credibility with stories about normal people. How thoughtful. If I wanted to know about real people, I would turn on Maury Povich. That being said, I stuck to my US Weekly faithfully.

Until now.

Enter this week’s cover:

I know the fine print is hard to read, so all I can say is you’re missing out on a lot. Apparently she loves “Sex and the City” and never misses one of her daughters’ recitals. Which is why Barack loves her. You know what I want to read? Whether or not she really loves this country. Yknow, the same country that gave her Affirmative Action so she could attend Princeton University for undergrad and Harvard University for law school. The same country that gives her husband a paycheck so she can afford $800 shoes. You know what else I want to read? Her husband’s response to this. I would put aside my gossip columns for a few minutes just to read that.

Never again will I pay $4.25 for that magazine. You have my word. Xoxo.

And, yet, the masses are swayed anyway.  Have to love democracy.

As you may now, baby watch welcomes the birth of a child from the youngest celebrity mom in 2008 today - Jamie-Lynn Spears gave birth to a baby girl today.   CNN reports:

“The 17-year-old was the star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” a sitcom about prep school friends, and is the younger sister of pop star Britney Spears.  The Spears family announced in December that Jamie Lynn was pregnant. The father is Casey Aldridge, a pipe-layer from Liberty, Mississippi. The couple is not married but announced an engagement several months ago.”

Did they really just say that or am I just being a perv?

Anyhow,  congrats to the couple!  I will buy her a celebratory glass of wine in four years when she’s legal.

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Please donate to the Institute for Justice on June 23, 2008 to mark the third anniversary of the day the Supreme Court upheld the right of the government to take your house. If ever there was a cause that struck close to home, this would be it.

Donate here!

George Clooney and his ladyfriend Sarah Larson have split.

Take it from me, George, when you’re a somebody and you meet a nobody who was once on a reality tv show, it’s a sign not to get involved.

That being sad, those MTV producers still haven’t cast me in their Washington, DC version of The Hills. Call me?!?

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have confirmed what everyone has known for months.

Needless to say, I’m pretty excited about this. A few questions:

1) Is Ashlee’s dyed red hair gonna grow out as nicely as mine did?  (for all you men reading this, pregnant women can’t dye their hair.)

2) Will the kid take after the father or mother musically?  I’m sure I won’t be dissappointed either way since I love craptastic music.

3) Is the baby gonna be able to lift up it’s head with that large of a chin?

God, I just love news about fetuses.

According to the word of God, aka PerezHilton.com, MTV is looking into doing a Hills type TV show in Washington, DC.

Well, well, isn’t that funny, I suggested that how many months ago…

Note: If any MTV producers happen to stumble upon this lil page of mine, please please please, feel free to contact me about being on this show.  I’m looking for any excuse to drop out of law school these days.  I will lose weight, dye my hair blond, and even go by a fake name if necessary.  Need me to pretend to work at a glamorous job? Will do.  Anything it takes.  xoxo, anastasia.

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It’s back on the interwebs!

A few weeks ago I posted the new video for Annie’s “I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me”. It was later removed by the legal team at YouTube but now it’s back for everyone to enjoy.

I’m regretting a lot of life choices this week. Because of this video, not becoming a pop star is one of them.
She looks like she’s having so much fun!

R. Kelly has this thing that wherever he goes, some 9 yr old near him gets pregnant.  It’s unfortunate, but I think if he has a good enough argument to support him, he may qualify for disability.  Until then though, he has charges against him for a videotape of what could be him having sex with what just might be a thirteen year old girl.

Luckily for R, he has this crazy strange mole on his back and claims it’s been there his whole life.  The man in the video has no mole.  Only in a kiddie sex case does having a mole come in handy.

Um… did anyone else see that episode from the first season of Nip/Tuck where this guy comes in to get a mole on his genitals removed and then sexy Dr. Christian later sees this de-moled guy on the news as a priest who was just acquitted of child molestation charges because all the boys had said the perpetrator had a distinct mole?

Here’s my theory : R. Kelly’s lawyers spent way too much time watching cable tv this weekend and decided just to get a lil spot drawn on R. Kelly’s back.  Presto-chango, the man is innocent!

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