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Elastic men/women fetish
Elastic or stretching fetishism is a sexual fetish based of the concept of people with stretching capabilities. A lot of the resources for this fetish can be found in popular culture, as of most of it consist of fictional material. Some people with this fetish can also be aroused from persons with inborn flexibility.
Notable fictional characters associated with this fetish are: Mr. Fantastic, Plastic Man, Madame Rouge, Elastigirl, and Monkey D. Luffy.
This fetish can be crossovered with rubber fetishism and inflation fetishism.
The Cincinnati Beacon
The Cincinnati Beacon was founded in 2005 by Jason A. Haap (the self-styled "Dean of Cincinnati") and Andrew Warner to serve as an alternative news source in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
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Structure
The Cincinnati Beacon is structured to be a hybrid between a blog and an online newspaper. The idea is to empower unpaid, volunteer bloggers so they can challenge the status quo of Cincinnati corporate news. The front page, therefore, avoids the traditional blog stack, offering a qualitative ranking layout for stories. Blog traditionalists, however, can use an online feature reformatting the site into a standard blog form.
Editorial board
As of April 2006, The Cincinnati Beacon had an editorial board featuring the founders (Jason Haap and Andrew Warner), as well as Justin Jeffre -- a multi-platinum recording artist turned political activist.
Advocacy journalism
The Cincinnati Beacon believes in advocacy journalism, and in the year 2006, the Editorial Board decided it would be a worthwhile goal to work towards removing Republican County Commissioner Phil Heimlich from office through partisan and personal attacks. These attacks include, but are not limited to, attacks on Phil Heimlich's father, Dr. Henry Heimlich of Heimlich manouver fame, who has been implicated by his estranged son Peter Heimlich in several scandals. The Cincinnati Beacon blog claims to have exclusively covered these scandals in Cincinnati, but their coverage is largly a rehash of years-earlier reports by Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Robert Anglen. [1][2][3] The Beacon has breathed new life into these "scandals", as Dr. Heimlich continues to publicize his medical theories. These scandals include (but are not limited to) malariotherapy, and involvement with the cult of Bill Gothard.
References
- ↑ Anglen, Robert. "Board rebukes AIDS evaluator".The Cincinnati Enquirer. April 18, 2003.
- ↑ Anglen, Robert. "Heimlich falsely claims he did procedure first". The Cincinnati Enquirer. March 16, 2003.
- ↑ Anglen, Robert. "Scientists linked to Heimlich investigated". The Cincinnati Enquirer. February 16, [[2003[[.
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fingernail fetish
A fingernail fetish (could also be called onychophilia) is a type of sexual fetish where one feels sexual attraction towards people that have long and/or painted nails. Although not as common as other sexual fetishes, it is still quite popular, especially with men. As with all fetishes, preferences vary: some like natural nails only, while others have no problem with artificial ones. Furthermore, some, although liking long nails, find them repulsive after a certain point; others consider "the longer the better". The curvature of the nails is also a determining factor, as well as possible designs on the nails. Lastly, some may ask of their sexual partners to scratch or massage them, in order to achieve sexual arousement. [edit]
Throughout the ages
During the 20th century, lots of women started treating their nails, manicuring them, letting them long or even wearing artificial ones. Thus, this type of fetish was given room to exist, or perhaps merely express itself. However, since the oldest evidence of manicure is 5000 years old, this fetish may well be that old as well. [edit]
Biological relation
Under a biological scope, the ability for one to grow healthy, strong nails could indicate that one has a healthy organism, able to support them. Under the Darwinian theory, this would allow one to have healthier descendants, which would make one appeal more to members of the opposite sex. However, this is just a speculation, and has not been scientifically proven. In fact, little to no research has been done to examine the effect of long nails on human sexuality.
red rocket
"Red Rocket" is also a nickname for NBA player Matt Bonner
Red Rocket is the act of forcing a male dog to ejaculate by hand. It got its name from the erection that the dog receives. It was shown on an episode of South Park, which after the main characters performed the act they were given sex education.
Immaculate Induction Hypothesis
The Immaculate Induction Hypothesis is a parody of the intelligent design movement in North America. It comes from an article published in the Science Creative Quarterly by Kelly Black. The original article was submitted for a contest for literature purporting to support the Flying Spaghetti Monster, The premise is to look at the logical implications if you accept that the complexity and beauty of the universe imply the existence of a supreme being who created the universe.
The conclusion in the original article is that the underlying assumption implies the existence of sequence of supreme beings, and a supreme being in the sequence is the creator of the previous supreme being in the sequence. The basic idea is that you first accept that the structure of the universe implies the existence of a supreme being. Taken together, the creator and the universe, are even more complex and more beautiful than just the universe alone which then implies the existence of creator for this new system. Repeated application of this argument gives rise to an induction hypothesis which yields the existence of an infinite sequence of all powerful beings/creators.
The parody is an example of the technique of Reductio ad absurdum to show that an assumption can lead to spurious results. The idea that the complexity of the world implies the existence of a supreme being can be considered problematic in some respects in that human understanding of the universe is transient. In time the human understanding of phenomena changes to include new observations and theories. Moreover, whether or not a Supreme Being would leave evidence of it's existence. In this sense the argument is reminiscent of the babelfish in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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fauxtography
The term "fauxtography" was coined by Charles Johnson, proprietor of the web log Little Green Footballs. The term is used to describe photographs that have been doctored with photo-editing software, staged to increase dramatic or emotive effect, or mis-captioned to provide a false meaning to the scene. "Fauxtography" usually describes photos that have been manipulated to promote a particular political point of view. The term was coined in the context of the Lebanon/Israel conflict.
In August 2006, a reader of Little Green Footballs notified Charles that a photo by Adnan Hajj showed evidence of having been manipulated using the Photoshop "clone" tool or its equivalent.[1] Further examination of Hajj's photos by bloggers revealed that a second photo had also been altered electronically.[2] In response, Reuters discontinued its relationship with Hajj and pulled all 920 of Hajj's photos.[3]
Further questions about Hajj's photographs involve:
- photos of the same site submitted on separate dates[4]
- a woman who appears to have lost two homes in two different places on two different occasions[5]
- two bridges given the same name[6]
- a rescue worker displaying the body of a child allegedly killed in Israel's bombardment of Qana for what may have been a span of four hours[7]
- a series of photos of a tire fire misidentified as a downed Israeli jet[8][9]. One of the photos appeared on the cover of the July 31, 2006 issue of U.S. News & World Report (Headlines: "Dangerous Liaisons: How radicals in Iran are rolling the Middle East from Lebanon to Iraq. What's really behind the violence. The region's new rocket threat. Israel's defense chief: Baptism by fire. Fouad Ajami on Lebanon's agony."). A photo from the same series appeared in Time Magazine with a caption identifying the fire as coming from a downed Israeli jet. Time admitted the error to "Gunny Bob," a radio host, in an e-mail.[10]
In the wake of this discovery, bloggers began to examine photos of the Lebanon/Israel conflict from other photographers. Suspected examples of staging, misleading captions, or other fakery include the following:
- A photo of a car whose caption says that it was hit by "Israeli ware [sic] plane missles" in Kfar Zabad[11]. Readers of the blog Hot Air point out that the car is not damaged enough to have been hit by a missle, e.g., the windshield is still intact, and that the hole in the top is most likely a missing sunroof[12].
- A photo of an ambulance whose caption says "Under fire: missile damage on the clearly marked ambulances, hit while caring for injured in the town of Qana."[13] Dan Riehl at the blog Riehl World View observes that the ambulance does not appear to have sustained damage from a missle: the hole in the roof and accompanying dents are covered with rust and there is no charring from the explosion that allegedly accompanied the missle strike. He further points out inconsistencies between the various versions of the story[14][15].
- A series of photos of post-bombing rubble that show a child's toy featured prominently in the foreground. The blogger notes that the toys are too clean to have survived an explosion and suspects that they were placed by the photographer.[16]
- A photo in a NY Times photo essay of a man who, at first glance, appears to be pulling a dead man from the rubble. The caption reads, "The mayor of Tyre said that in the worst-hit areas, bodies were still buried under the rubble, and he appealed to the Israelis to allow government authorities time to pull them out."[17] Further examination of the photo led some bloggers to conclude that the "dead" man was in fact alive, [18] and that he had posed for the photo. However, NPR posted the same photo with the following caption: "After an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building in Tyre, Lebanon, one man helps another who had fallen and was hurt."[19]
- A photo of a rescue worker pulling a dead child from the rubble, an event which one blogger thinks might have been "stretched out" for the benefit of photographers[20].
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External Links
- Day by Day editorial cartoon about the photo controversy. Last accessed August 8, 2006.
- Cox & Forkum editorial cartoon about the photo controversy. Last accessed August 7, 2006.
- Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law. Recent history of media photo manipulation. Hany Farid, associate professor, University of Massachusetts. Last accessed August 7, 2006.
