The "B" is for beauty of course.
Ms. Cohen is one tall, cool drink of Canadian Club, and according to a once anonymous blogger, she is also the biggest "skank" in a city of 19 million. Past accomplishments aside, this 40-year-old model is now in the news by taking the behemoth Google to task and successfully wrangling the identification of one of its blogger's, that according to Ms. Cohen, was attempting to defame her snow white character.
You owe it to yourself to watch this "interview" on CBS's morning show. At the 6:05 mark, I had to stop and spank the pause button while I attempted to stem the gastric juices from bubbling up my windpipe. One moment she says she just wants an heart-felt apology from her libeler, only to later claim, with a flippant remark and a flick of her locks, that she may or may not pursue charges after all. Can something really be historic when its latent landmark status depends on the precarious whims of an ex-super-model?
Here is the skinny, and you read it here. The entire rabble rousing affair smells to high heaven like a publicity stunt that also doubles as a convenient volley in an ongoing spat between two bored beauties. First off, the blog in question had previously hid dormant in an obscure nook of the vast web for months never collecting more than a spattering of innocuous responses. But our litigious blonde bombshell, after getting wind of the offensive site via a mutual friend, decided it holy necessary to speed-dial her legal team.
Here is a copy of the offical complaint.
A pretty face and an augment frame gets all the ink and a prominent spot on all the morning shows, while the hard questions of anonymity and the internet are being played out all over the web with real consequences -- like the British constable telling all the dirty secrets of the beat, or the young student journalist threatened with physical and fiscal harm because of an article she penned disclosing the identity of a blogger.
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