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“Dr. Laura” Quits Radio After Realizing It’s Not OK To Use The “N-Word”

In case you haven’t been following, last week, radio talk show veteran Dr. Laura Schlessinger used what we’ll call “a racially-charged expletive referring to African Americans” a bunch of times on her show. Then she apologized for it.

But blogging an apology for using the N-word (while giving advice to a black caller on the air) isn’t really enough, right?

Right! Which is why Schlessinger announced on “Larry King Live” last night that she has decided to end her 30-year career in radio. Though she said she’s “not retiring” altogether.

Watch her interview with King below:

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Vogue Italia Runs A Controversial Oil Spill-Inspired Editorial

Photo: Vogue Italia

View the Magazine Cover CLICK HERE!

We are posting this closer examination of the “Water & Oil” editorial, inspired by the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we were unsettled by the controversial and haunting images, shot by Steven Meisel, that show model Kristen McMenamy strewn across the rocks like the injured animals we’ve seen in the news.

There’s no denying that these images from the oil spill editorial in Vogue Italia‘s August 2010 issue are beautiful. The 24 pages of Kristen McMenamy, shot by Steven Meisel, are realistic interpretations of images of injured, oiled animals that have inundated the news media since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April. As beautiful and provocative as they are, we can’t help but feel uneasy. Creating beauty and glamour out of tragedy seems quite fucked up to us, not to mention wasteful and hypocritical, seeing as thousands of dollars of luxury clothing was flown in, and then subsequently ruined for the shoot. Glamorizing this recent ecological and social disaster for the sake of “fashion” reduces the tragic event to nothing more than attention-grabbing newsstand fodder. But that’s just us. Do you think this is appropriate commentary, or just tasteless?

Please help out. Here are 5 useful ways to support the gulf oil spill relief.

Pick up a Kenneth Cole Tee to help with oil spill clean up.

Check out places in N.Y. to donate your hair to make oil clean-up booms.

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