So, Pamela Anderson’s new commercial for PETA, which features the former pin-up screening airline passengers for “prohibited” leather, fur, and animal products, won’t be shown on the CNN’s Airport Network. According to the New York Post, “PETA planned to debut the spot tomorrow at all three Gotham-area airports, and later this fall in the other 45 major airports serviced by CNN. But the network wrote to PETA saying it’s ‘particularly sensitive because children make up part of the demographic in airports.’” PETA, banned? You don’t say.

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Via Wonkette, the sexy and unneccessary medical tweets of CNN’s Rick Sanchez. Ah, if only we all could meet that one, perfect “anesthesiologist watches show loves twitter.”

Matthew Yglesias thinks the numbers in CNN’s widely-circulated Internet sex survey have been blown out of proportion. Yglesias says the numbers—which reported what percentages of men and women would sooner give up sex for two weeks than the Internet—are actually not terribly high. Forty-six percent of women and 30 percent of men reported that they were willing to stay abstinent for a fortnight in order to keep connected.

Personally, I’d go further and say that the numbers are stunningly low. Speaking from a high place of authority on this matter—I am a sex blogger—choosing Internet over sex for two weeks is a no-brainer. The reason is because time in the sexual realm is so different from time in the Internet world. If a single person goes two weeks without sex, it’s not out of the ordinary. If a blogger goes two weeks without posting, she’s likely dead.

I think we have to consider the possibility that 56 percent of women and 70 percent of men are just lying so that CNN thinks they’re cool. Here’s a follow-up survey: How many of these people have actual sex every two weeks? And how many are incurable Internet nerds refreshing Fleshbot on their RSS feeds every two hours?

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* Meet Evangelical preacher Tony Alamo. In the 80’s, he kept his dead wife’s body on display for six months waiting for her to be resurrected. In the 90’s, he was arrested for tax evasion on profits from his line of Tony Alamo brand “elaborately painted denim jackets.” Now 74 years old, Alamo is accused of running a child abuse/young girls’ marriage compound in Arkansas. Alamo told CNN that “for girls having sex, ‘consent is puberty.’” What could come next for this eccentric free spirit!?

* “Wine guru” Amy Monroe writes on Serious Eats about the rise and fall of organic Chilean wine “Palin Syrah.” According to Monroe, the dry, white pepper tinged wine used to be the top seller of San Francisco’s Yield Wine Bar. “But after Sen. John McCain tagged Sarah Palin as his running mate,” Monroe writes, “sales of the wine with the conservative’s inverted name plummeted.”

* An 18-year-old woman was killed in Northeast yesterday after refusing to cook a hamburger. The victim, Tanganika Stanton, lost her life for resisting the advances of a street harasser, believed to be 19-year-old Terrence J. Jones. Stanton’s death is an extreme outcome of a situation that is a routine threat against women in this city.

*Feministe blogger Jack on who deserves to meet Bill Clinton.

* The New Gay has a re-cap of Monday’s GLOV (Gays and Lesbians Opposed to Violence) reformation, while CP’s Jule Banville follows up on assault victim (and GLOV member) Todd Metrokin.

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