Now for your choices for the 15 Tackiest Entertainment
Celebrities of 2004:

1.) Britney Spears is the 2004 winner by a wide margin. As Nataliah of Virginia Beach, VA, pointed out, "In only a year, she has managed to achieve what it takes other celebrities YEARS to do such as: 1.) Having one of the shortest marriages, 2.) Beginning a world tour, then ending it with a screeching halt due to the "broken leg" excuse…and less than 2 months later she was 3.) Getting married yet again! However, this time it was to her EX-BOYFRIEND'S backup dancer. She couldn't have Justin, so she settled for a lesser...much lesser version."

3.) Paris Hilton: Munnett in Los Angeles opined, "Paris might as well be a porn star," and added that the private sex video star/hotel fortune heiress is "a slut and stupid to top it off. Lucky for Paris most people are not normal any more, we are all a bunch of pretentious idiots. Yes, I include myself, I like that stupid Fox show Paris is on."

15.) R. Kelly: "I nominate R. Kelly for tacky and disgusting and scary entertainer of the year. Honestly, no one is more deserving. In between making endlessly cheesy songs chronicling his sex addictions and comparing women to cars, he finds time to stockpile enough child pornography to last through Armageddon." -- Melanie, Washington, DC

Just for the record, since these Awards are limited to Entertainment Personalities, we didn't include votes for politicians in our Top 15 tally. If we had, President George W. Bush would have come in 7th, ahead of Courtney Love, with Senator John Kerry in 13th place - behind Lil' Kim. And that would have been ridiculous!

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Love that last paragraph. GWB is only twice as tacky as John Kerry -- {cough} Lurch from the Addams family {cough} -- but, upon reflection, that sounds about right.

-janelane

What a Year for Tacky Taste in Tinseltown: Beck/Smith Hollywood's 2004 Tacky Taste Awards

] KENT, Washington (AP) -- A man who placed a lava lamp on
] a hot stovetop was killed when it exploded and sent a
] shard of glass into his heart, police said.
]
] Philip Quinn, 24, was found dead in his trailer home
] Sunday night by his parents.
]
] "Why on earth he was heating a lava lamp on the stove, we
] don't know," Kent Police spokesman Paul Petersen said
] Monday.

Darwin Award, anyone?

CNN.com - Lava lamp left on hot stovetop explodes, killing man - Nov 30, 2004

] HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Philadelphia's plan to
] offer inexpensive wireless Internet as a municipal
] service -- the most ambitious yet by a major U.S. city --
] has collided with commercial interests including the
] local phone company, Verizon Communications Inc.
]
] In fact, a bill on Gov. Ed Rendell's desk that could
] humble Philadelphia's ambitions began 19 months ago as a
] proposal drafted by lobbyists for telecommunications
] companies.

Lobbyists. Can't live with 'em, haven't tried living without them.

CNN.com - Telecoms lobby against public wireless networks - Nov 24, 2004

] (CNN) -- The New York Times has endorsed Sen. John Kerry
] for president, calling the Democrat "a man with a strong
] moral core" who "has qualities that could be the basis
] for a great chief executive."
]
] The endorsement from one of the nation's largest and most
] influential newspapers, published in Sunday's editions
] and placed on The New York Times Web site Saturday night,
] was expected.

WTF?! Since when is a newspaper _expected_ to be openly biased?! Especially when it's supposedly the most respected one in the country?

CNN.com - New York Times endorses Kerry - Oct 17, 2004

] ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Fears of a terrorist attack are
] not sufficient reason for authorities to search people at
] a protest, a federal appeals court has ruled, saying
] September 11, 2001, "cannot be the day liberty perished."
]
] A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
] ruled unanimously Friday that protesters may not be
] required to pass through metal detectors when they gather
] next month for a rally against a U.S. training academy
] for Latin American soldiers.
]
] Authorities began using the metal detectors at the annual
] School of the Americas protest after the terrorist
] attacks, but the court found that practice to be
] unconstitutional.
]
] "We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties
] until the War of Terror is over, because the War on
] Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over," Judge Gerald
] Tjoflat wrote for the three-member court. "September 11,
] 2001, already a day of immeasurable tragedy, cannot be
] the day liberty perished in this country."

This....this happened in Georgia. This is the last state on Earth I would have expected to a raise a big "F*ck you" to the Patriot Act.

-janelane

CNN.com - Terror fears don't trump Constitution, court rules - Oct 16, 2004

Acidus turns 24 on Friday. Party time!

] NEW YORK (AP) -- Declaring that personal security is as
] important as national security, a judge Wednesday blocked
] the government from conducting secret, unchallengeable
] searches of Internet and telephone records as part of its
] fight against terrorism.
]
] The American Civil Liberties Union called the ruling a
] "landmark victory" against the Justice Department's
] post-September 11 law enforcement powers.
]
] "Today's ruling is a wholesale refutation of excessive
] government secrecy and unchecked executive power," said
] ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer.
]
] U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero struck down a
] provision of the Patriot Act that authorizes the FBI to
] force Internet service providers and phone companies to
] turn over certain customer records. The companies are
] then barred from ever disclosing the search took place.

Woo-hoo!

CNN.com - Judge blocks part of Patriot Act - Sep 29, 2004

] Chance Casey from San Jose asks: "How do you think things
] would change for Americans if the rules were changed so
] that only women could run for all the currently elected
] offices?"

] madowd - 12:53 PM ET September 15, 2004 (#7 of 12)
]
] Well, we wouldn't have so many cat fights, as we
] did with Rummy, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell over going
] into Iraq and the trumped-up weapons evidence. And we
] wouldn't have so many people crying, the way Poppy Bush
] does and Jeb Bush did at a press conference about his
] troubled daughter. And there would be none of that
] hormonal instability, as we see with Dick Cheney and
] Rummy and W., who got into a testosterone fever over
] going into Baghdad to topple Saddam. And we wouldn't have
] any hissy fits, as we see with Rummy.
]
] The more I think about it, the more I think men may be
] biologically unsuited to hold high public office.

HAHAHAHA!

The New York Times: A Discussion

] Did you successfully avoid the Microsoft Tax? Are
] you eager to remove the Microsoft Windows* Sticker with
] the Microsoft Windows* Label from your laptop or
] notebook? Here are some methods to remove the Microsoft
] Windows* Logo. (Pictures will follow hopefully soon).
]
] Method One: Removing the Microsoft Label with a Pair of
] Tweezers
]
] You need a good pair of tweezers to carefully remove the
] Microsoft label. If there is still some remaining glue,
] you may remove it with acetone. Acetone is usually the
] main part of nail-varnish remover, so you may use that
] instead. Attention: please make sure the acetone will not
] destroy the painting of your laptop or notebook. Test how
] it works on a part where it does not matter.

Is this some sort of passion with reluctant MS Windows users? Removing the sticker to hide their shame?

TuxMobil: How to Remove a MicroSoft Label from a Laptop or Notebook Case

] "I don't use Windows and asked my OEM for the refund,
] they have no idea what I'm talking about"
]
] Most customer support personel, supervisors, and managers
] that work within the sales departments of these major
] OEMs are not educated in this issue. First off, they've
] probably never actually read the agreement and secondly
] are not encountered with this situation as much as they
] should be. In other words, they don't have a procedure in
] place to deal with this. However, This does not mean that
] you are not entitled to your refund.

A refund for uninstalling Windows from a purchased computer?

WindowsRefund.net :: Get your refund