| With Hef, it's complicated | | Hugh Hefner was a cultural icon. After his death Wednesday at 91, the "ultimate playboy" was lauded as a pioneer journalist, a powerful advocate for civil rights and the father of the sexual revolution. But for many women, there are problems with his legacy . Sure, he made nudity mainstream. He riled Puritans who couldn't wrap their heads around recreational sex. He was a trailblazer. But along with the tributes came the accusations that Hefner objectified those he claimed to liberate, in the pages of his magazine, in his business and in his relationships. So what's next? Hefner had arranged to be buried beside Marilyn Monroe. And as for the Playboy Mansion, its fate has already been sealed. | | Today, sadly, she's the one. | | One day after making Hollywood history, Julia Louis-Dreyfus learned she has breast cancer. "Just when you thought..." she tweeted Thursday. She shared a note saying "1 in 8 women get breast cancer. Today, I'm the one." The "Veep" star, 56, took home an Emmy for best actress in a comedy series on Sept. 17. Her diagnosis came the next day, HBO says. It was her sixth straight Emmy for lead actress in a comedy, and a history-making win. Louis-Dreyfus says she has supportive people around her and "fantastic insurance." But not everyone is so lucky, she says. "So let's fight all cancers and make universal health care a reality." | | Murdered teen was 'proud to be trans,' but death not classified as hate crime | | "I am proud to be me I am proud to be trans I am beautiful I don't care what people think," wrote Ally Steinfeld, born Joseph Matthew Steinfeld. The 17-year-old was brutally murdered last week, stabbed in the genitals, eyes gouged out, body burned and bones left in a chicken coop. But Missouri authorities don't believe the killing was motivated by her gender identity. The teen's murder has drawn the attention of LGBTQ individuals, groups and advocates from around the world. "I don't know how I'm going to pay to bury him," Steinfeld's father said. "But I can't cremate him again." | | Who will 'tame' President Trump? Millions of North Koreans volunteer | | Four million North Koreans are ready to join or re-enlist in the military, according to state media, since leader Kim Jong Un said Friday: "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire." (He was referring to President Trump.) The two leaders have exchanged a lot of words the last few weeks. They haven't been kind. It feels like a good time to talk about what to do in case of a nuclear blast. |  | | It's grease, it's trash, it's nasty, it's ... FATBERG! | | Here's a new and disgusting word we're sorry to introduce to your vocabulary: fatberg . That's what wastewater officials are calling a big ball of congealed oil, grease, wet wipes and who-knows-what-else that blocked Baltimore pipes and caused more than a million gallons of sewage to leak into one of the city's waterways. The fatberg is mostly blasted apart now, and it isn't the first to plague a big city — one found in London this month was the size of three football fields and weighed 130 tons. That's a lot of nastiness. (Click through to the photo at your own risk.) | |
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