Nashaira Desbarida topless in Ava and Gabriel: A Love Story (1990)

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Dutch drama in Dutch and Papiamento.

Set in Curacao in the 1940s, Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story tells of the (fictional) painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in a local church. Gabriel is black, originally from Surinam. The colonial Antillian society proves less than tolerant towards him, especially after he chooses as his model a young Black teacher, Ava.

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Johnny Moronic’s clips can be found here

Sasha Keable is good at Instagram

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She’s a singer-songwriter from the UK.

(Instagram is incorrect when they say the post has been deleted or removed. To be fair, they have changed the wording to say it “MAY have been removed or deleted,” which is absurd. How could they not know one way or another? It’s a binary programming problem – either it’s there or it isn’t – there’s no “maybe.” As usual, I got that message, and the link was working fine. They really need to fix that glitch so that the message only appears when the statement is true, but that’s unlikely because they probably have a hidden agenda related to embedding “mature” content. Of all the big social media platforms, Instagram seems to have the worst programming, and gives the fewest fucks about it.)


Instagram seems fairly tolerant of see-thrus, but if it gets deleted, here’s a back-up.


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It has been reported that Kim Kardashian got her law school degree.

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She got her degree from the prestigious Close Cover Before Striking Institute by drawing the picture of the lawyer. If she had drawn the pirate instead, she could now be looting off the Somali coast.

“So, I am, like, totally dee Captain now.”

OK, I’ll stop fuckin’ around for a sec. This has been widely misreported, so let’s cover what she did and didn’t do. It’s not as impressive as some headlines would have you believe, but it is a genuine accomplishment.

First, she never went to law school, and she received no degree at all. Indeed she has no college degree of any type, and I’m not sure she ever graduated from high school. Her Wikipedia page just says that she “attended” high school.

She did, however, complete her legal studies through an alternative to traditional law school. In California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, you can become a lawyer without attending law school if you complete a structured apprenticeship or law office study program. This program allowed her to apprentice with a law firm and study the law while working under the supervision of a licensed lawyer.

If you were a boy scout, you may remember how you moved up in rank or got a merit badge. There was a checklist of things you had to accomplish, and your mentor had to sign off when you met each requirement. The law office program works the same way. The mentor has to review your work and certify that you have accomplished every one of the things you’d have to do in law school.

Kim has completed her legal education, passed the “Baby Bar” (First-Year Law Student’s Examination) on her fourth try, and recently passed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), which is required to practice law in California. She still needs to pass the California Bar Exam to become a licensed attorney in California. She’ll have to grind hard to do that, because the exam has a 44% failure rate, despite the fact that all of the testees did go to law school and most of them study their asses off to pass.

You may remember that Kim’s dad was a lawyer. He became famous, at least briefly, for defending his close friend OJ Simpson, “Uncle Juice,” as he was called by the Kardashian character in American Crime Story. (David Schwimmer played Kardashian. Cuba Gooding played Uncle Juice.)