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Entourage has partnered with Richard Branson of Virgin America and are taking over domestic flights. Entourage Air will offer flights from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to Las Vegas. When the Vegas-bound flights take off, there will be some product placement and a premiere of Entourage’s fifth season.

Entourage Class will also be available if you’re throwing down more cheddar. Entourage Class offers champagne, beauty products and chocolates for these lucky first class passengers. I hope Kanye shows up.

Kevin Powell is a former cast member from the first season of MTV’s The Real World. Now he’s running for Congress in the 10th district (Brooklyn) of New York. I don’t think being on The Real World is any sort of credential but he does have a BA in Political Science. At least he was on the show before it went completely downhill and turned to crap.

He is up against Ed Towns, a 13-year incumbent, so we probably won’t see him in office anytime soon. Powell thinks “civic engagement should be a part of our values as much as MTV and Xbox.” He is trying to get more young people involved and what better way than making a tape of his speeches mixed with music from Tupac, 50 Cent and Kanye West?

The only time I’ve ever flown JetBlue I had a huge layover and it royally sucked. Now I hear about this lady, Christina Szele, a 35-year-old New Yorker who decided it was a good idea to light up a cigarette on her JetBlue flight. After downing three vodka drinks she lit up in her seat with a match. Flight attendants tried to restrain Szele but she assaulted them by punching one attendant in the jaw and kicking and screaming. She then threatened to kill the attendant, dropped the N bomb and called him a “dumb mother fucker”.

She was traveling from New York to San Francisco but she caused the flight to make an emergency landing in Denver after her outburst. Szele had also drank beers before getting to the airport. She claims to not remember any of these incidences of lighting up or slugging the worker. She has been charged with disorderly conduct in the past. She is now facing charges of causing a disturbance, assault and interfering with a flight crew. This is a felony and she could get up to twenty years in prison.  Blacked out much?

New York has the highest cigarette tax in the nation and it is continuing to grow. They are calling it a success because the number of calls to the state’s Smoker’s Quitline quadrupled when the $2.75-a-pack tax took effect, damn. They are trying to give New York smokers multiple reasons to stop and these ridiculously high prices would do it for me.

On June 3, the cig tax jumped from $1.25 to $2.75 a pack! Cigarettes in the state range anywhere from $6 to $8 per pack depending on brand and particular store. New York City even has its own tax and prices are as high as $10 a pack. New Jersey is the highest at the moment with a $2.58 tax. The quitline upped it kits to quit smoking from 1,722 to 7,900 in just a year due to the tax. I guess options for New Yorkers would be to buy out of state or online… or just quit altogether cause I could never justify $10 for 20 cigs. That’s steep.

Bad news: While you may be sorta safe from AIDS if you’re a straight guy, you aren’t safe from the HERPS. One out of four adults in New York has herpes. The genital kind. Now before you get all grossed-out, stop and think. It’s gotta suck having to deal with that for the rest of your life. Telling every person you sleep with, being all responsible about it, and the feeling of humiliation… not fun.

Good news: Now there’s a social network where you can meet other people with STDs! People who understand! People who don’t care! People who wear their dirty little secret with pride. STDmatch.net is your #1 site for STD support and dating!

Cumming soon: Amputee Dating Services.