[NOTE: Journal Broadcasting filed a takedown notice with YouTube, so this particular video has been removed. Totally within their rights, but still sort of lame, in my opinion. Anyhow, they somehow let a woman calling her attackers "dumb motherfuckers" slip through on-air. That was basically it.]

Thankfully, this slip-up by a woman who has the right to use angry language (she was the victim of a home invasion, after all) was on the 10 pm news ... anyone who is still up after 9 generally loses their right to claim sensitive ears.

Thanks, by the way, to the anonymous reader who sent this in.

This video comes from a trio of ladies out of the University of Saskatchewan, where Sarah Zelinski, Kayla Hatzel and Dylan Lambi-Raine created this video for their Women and Gender Studies class. In it, they examine the way in which women are sexualizied in advertising media, and question how such ads affect violence against women.

Then, they flip the script entirely, swapping men for women in the ads.

Check it out. If you just want to check the gender role swap, roll the video forward to about 2:40 (though I recommend you watch the whole thing to get a better grasp of what they're talking about.)

• Image Courtesy of Boston Magazine

When a cover of a publication is circulating the Internet under headlines touting it as “incredible,” “beautiful” and even“perfect” before the issue is released, it’s a pretty good indication that your designers have done something right.

When Boston Magazine released the above image - its May cover - this morning, the response from not only the Boston community, but the entire nation, was immediate. Emotions continue to run high now over a week after the bombings, and the image (shot by photographer Mitchell Feinberg) resonated strongly with runners still recovering from the event that prompted them to donate the very items that may have carried them to safety: the shoes they wore that day, many of which did not cross the finish line.

A great interview today in the Huffington Post Latino Voices. While you can read the entire piece here, it isn't until the end that the Daily Show contributor and comic talks about Tucson, and yes, Mexican-American studies and his (in)famous interview with Tucson Unified School District governing board member Michael Hicks.

Here's what he says about that TUSD/MAS segment:

Instability is an entertainment industry given, but his two years on "Daily Show" have given Madrigal a high profile and the chance to create some indelible moments, including his interrogation of a member of the Tucson, Ariz., school board that banned a Mexican-American studies program. A board member earnestly told Madrigal that one teacher was buying his students' loyalty with burritos, which Madrigal said prompted "burrito protests" against the board's action.

"That's the most viewed piece" he's done for "Daily Show," he said, proudly. "People are teaching that piece in Chicano studies classes."

And just in case you forgot or want to relive the hell:

Last weekend, folks driving through the westside along Speedway Boulevard west of I-10 noticed a protest taking place in front of the Arizona School for the Deaf and the Blind. One person who definitely noticed, got out of his car and grabbed his camera is Chris Summitt. Summitt then did what he does best and posted a story along with the photos on his popular tumblr page, Protesting Arizona.

Those involved in local movements, from immigration to Mexican-American studies, are familiar with his work. He does a lot of other stuff, which is why we featured him in last week's cover story on crowd-source funding campaigns to talk about his campaign and how he went about choosing GoFundMe.

His campaign kicked off. Check it out here, and his slide show below to get an understanding of the range of his work and why supporting him is a good investment. Summitt's timing at the ASDB was wonderful, but the fact that he took the time is an example of his good character and why we're lucky to have him in Tucson.

Honestly, from the Boston Bombing (from its abhorrent coverage to the shootout between police and suspects this morning) to the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, this week has been completely, absolutely awful. And, again, satirical "news" source The Onion has completely nailed it in a piece yesterday, simply titled "Jesus, This Week" (NSFW language ahead):

“Seriously, can we wrap this up already?” Maryland resident James Alderman told reporters, echoing the thoughts of all 311 million Americans, who have just about reached their weekly goddamned quota for carnage, misery, confusion, heartbreak, and rage. “Because, you know, I’m pretty sure we’ve all had our hearts ripped out of our chests and stomped on enough times for one seven-day period, thank you very much.”

“Man oh man,” Alderman added, shaking his head. “Can you believe this? Can you honestly believe the kind of piece-of-shit week we’re having here?”

According to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, when reached for comment on this week, 93 percent of Americans responded “Okay, enough’s enough here, you have seriously got to be kidding me with this week,” with 84 percent saying “Is it Sunday yet? What? How in the hell are we only at Thursday? What the hell is going on?” and 100 percent of Americans responding “No, no, go ahead, just pile some more horrific shit on this hellish shitshow of a week. Have at it.”

Honestly. I've got high hopes for the weekend, all things considered — I mean, it couldn't be any worse, right?

Sometimes, political ads make far, far less sense than they intend to. Take, for instance, this image, which is part of a campaign launching this week:

• via Buzzfeed

So, at first glance, can you tell exactly what they're getting at here? To be honest, my first impression was that the argument was that banning guns is on par with banning books — it took an explanation of the inclusion of Little Red Riding Hood (banned by two California school districts because Little Red Riding Hood was carrying wine in the basket she was taking to her grandmother), and a clarified version of the ad with new text at the bottom of the frame, to understand the point being made by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America: that our society is so backwards that banning books to protect children makes more sense than banning weapons.

Because no one here has been bothered by potential book bans.

Yeah, the ads are reaching a bit, but that's not stopping them from going all in, as this ad is part of a much larger campaign:

Today, Moms Demand Action also launched a new PSA campaign, “Choose One,” a series of print ads featuring assault weapons alongside other objects that have been banned in America to protect child welfare, including Kinder Surprise eggs, the book “Little Red Riding Hood,” and the schoolyard game dodge ball. The ads, in conjunction with a video PSA, are being released through donated media on digital, broadcast and print channels.

Best of luck to them, but this campaign already seems a bit misplaced — I can hear the complaints about emotional pandering already.

Check out the video PSA below the jump, but be warned: it features some fairly emotional, possibly disturbing audio.

Announced via a brief mention on KOLD's website, Chuck George is taking another leave of absence from his gig as chief meteorologist. In 2011, following an odd on-air segment where George slurred his words, he took a month and a half off. This will make his third seemingly-unplanned break from broadcasting.

Recently, George has had some less-prominent odd moments on air, including the one above, which was sent to us with the header "Drunk Weather?". Word is that George was having trouble on KMSB's 9 p.m. news on Friday the 5th, but when asked if these events were connected, KOLD General Manager Debbie Bush replied to Media Watch columnist John Schuster: "If you are planning on reporting that he had a problem that affected his performance on Friday night or March 13, that would not be an accurate statement."

However, George, a normally active social media user, has been absent from his public Twitter and Facebook profiles from that date.

Making fun of the Arizona Daily Star's website isn't that difficult, honestly. It's kinda terrible in a number of different ways, from content to usability — and I'm not saying that as a competitor, but as someone who actually uses the Internet for things. It's just bad.

But c'mon, azstarnet.com. This is what you're running on your site right now?:

• azstarnet.com
• 'Tuned in,' they say. Right.

That, dear reader, is a bylined story highlighting a special being run by a national chain of sandwich shops that isn't even based in this town:

Subway has resurrected its popular early bird BOGO offer.

Throughout the month of April you can get a free 6-inch sandwich with the purchase of a 6-inch sandwich. But the offer is good only until 9 a.m. daily.

Subway has 39,182 restaurants in 102 countries and a big handful of them in the Tucson area including at 5480 E. Speedway, 2955 W. Valencia Road, 455 E. Wetmore Road, 1503 W. Saint Marys Road and 10325 N. LaCanada Drive in Oro Valley.

Apparently, it isn't even an ad. It's just...there. As a thing. We'll assume that they got a press release from Subway and had to write SOMETHING for the Caliente section — slow news day. I get it. We'll fill our pages with goofy content too sometimes (and hell, it's not even like we're [completely] against the idea of sponsored content, though if we did so we'd at least ensure we weren't whoring ourselves in the process — and we wouldn't pretend it wasn't an ad, either).

But they're running this as the top story in their food section, bumping a local story to site purgatory:

• azstarnet.com
• Really? Really?

See that note about Brewd Coffee Lounge? As mentioned in Noshing Around last week, Brewd closed up shop after a rough year downtown. The Star's story notes their forthcoming move to the east side, which might help them in the long run, as they won't have to compete with construction or two other high-quality coffee joints (Sparkroot and Exo Roast Co.) less than a mile away.

That is actually interesting — far more so than a rewritten press release about cheap-ass sandwiches, anyway.

Get it together, Daily Star — we all know that you're likely to move to a paywall, joining most of your other Lee Enterprises brethren, sooner rather than later. There's no way that you're going to convince people to buy into your website with content like that...or this baseball quiz, for that matter, which was ripped straight from the website of stltoday.com, complete with links to St. Louis Cardinals features at the end, no less.

Because they clearly have nothing more important on their agenda, two members of Congress are demanding an investigation into Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s recent trip to Cuba.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, both Republicans from Florida, wrote a letter appealing to the director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control for further information on “the type of license” the Carters used to visit Cuba last week in celebration of their fifth anniversary, and who even approved of their trip in the first place.

The celebrity couple created quite the stir in Havana, forcing police to restrain crowds of fans as they dined in a local restaurant and drawing praise from Cuban artists who performed for the pair during their stay. But for Rep. Ros-Lehtinen and Rep Diaz-Balart, it’s all fun and games until you sponsor human rights violations with your cigar money.