Who knew they had such progressives in Little Rock? The atheist group Arkansas Society of Freethinkers has successfully sued to put up something resembling a port-a-john on the state capitol grounds alongside the Christmas nativity scene.
Yes, that’s it at left. It’s actually a winter solstice display. Don’tcha feel all warm and fuzzy now?
The thing includes profiles of the group’s own three wise “men” — Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Is the display educational? Perhaps. But if the group truly is not anti-Christian or anti-Christmas, why don’t they just take their hideous outhouse back to whoever’s backyard, and let people enjoy the Christmas season without their clutter.
Smart move by GMA to cancel Adam Lambert on Wednesday. Don’t pour salt in the wound. Don’t risk another possible massive fine from the FCC. Like they’ll probably get for the singer’s disgusting performance Sunday night on the American Music Awards. I won’t embed this one. But if you care to see it, click here.
Simulating gay oral sex? Guys in bondage? (Not to mention the same sex kiss?) And some people accuse ABC of being homophobic. No. They just woke up and realized that not only was that performance obscene for a late Sunday public broadcast; they realized they can’t give this guy the stage in the morning, especially with kids and grandmas and who knows who else watching.
Lambert says he got carried away and didn’t rehearse the raunchy bits. BS! ABC says it didn’t know he was going to get raunchy. Perhaps the raunchy bits were rehearsed in secret. But that’s what happens when you give freaks a chance to shock the nation. A chance to outfreak Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. They get over-the-top freaky.
Hopefully the FCC spanks Lambert with a huge fine himself. Maybe it knocks his career down and serves as a lesson for other performers and networks’ choices of featured artists.
Somehow I doubt it though. All I’m asking for is a little class. Which apparantly is in shorter supply in the pop entertainment world these days.
That video is reportedly being shown to middle and high schoolers in California to promote tolerance of cross dressers. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly says parents weren’t even given an option or a notice that their kids would see it.
So, would you want your kids to see it? And if not, what would you do when you found out the school showed it?
By the way, I liked what one of O’Reilly’s “Culture Warriors” said. Margaret Hoover said California would do better to teach kids economics rather than tolerance for cross dressing. Then again, that state’s elected leaders have some learning to do, themselves.
I want to thank a former “friend” on Facebook. He brought to my attention that actor Charlie Sheen is part of the 9/11 truther movement. I can now cross anything “Charlie Sheen” off my viewing list.
This person sent this ridiculous link to me about Sheen getting a sitdown with President Obama, presenting him with a case that our government was complicit on 9/11. Indeed, Sheen has been a part of the nutty truther movement for three years, and has now asked to meet with the president about “the cover-up.”
The young man who brought this to my attention wasn’t so delusional that he thought the chat between Sheen and Obama really happened. But he said he wanted my “opinion as an honest journalist” about the conspiracy. When I told him I didn’t get past the first few lines before I clicked out, he apparantly got an opinion he didn’t like. And un-friended me.
I’m sorry if I offended the guy. I probably could’ve handled it more tactfully. But here we are, about to mark the eighth anniversry of the evil terrorist hijack attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans and first responders. And thrust us into war. And we’ve got kooks in our own country spreading this puke.
Now, I understand the lawsuit against the school. I would also understand some discipline against the men, whether it be suspension or whatever. But a criminal charge? Possible jail time? For praying? Good grief!
Folks are rallying to help the men with sales of tee-shirts and hamburgers, along with pleas for donations. Their defense fund hit five figures in just a few days.
So the issue’s struck a nerve in the conservative Florida panhandle. But after blatantly violating the court order, do the men have a prayer in court?
A cop arrests a man who’d broken into his own home. Not for that, of course. For disorderly conduct. Apparantly the man — who’s a bit famous, but quite cranky about not being able to get in his own door after a long trip — resisted showing i.d. and kept screaming racism and stuff about the cops’ mother, even as the cop was reportedly walking away. Guess that would irritate me, too, if I were the cop. But did it rise to the need for an arrest? Couldn’t he have taken a deep breath and kept walking?
Maybe both guys should meet, apologize, shake hands and end our long national nightmare. Won’t hold my breath though. Becaaaaaaause …
On comes President Obama with his news conference. Lo and behold, a reporter asks him about the arrest of the homeowner – a noted scholar on African American research at Harvard who turns out to be a friend of the prez. While admitting he did not have all the facts, Obama said the police “acted stupidly.” I thought that was a bit harsh, though, perhaps he was speaking a bit emotionally about something that happened to a friend. But then Obama went on to say, “There’s a long history in this country of African Americans being stopped disproportionately by the police. It’s a sign of how race remains a factor in this society.”
The White House now says Obama was surprised by the question, though I’ve heard one “expert” say presidents are briefed about any question that could come up. But whether the president’s words were planned or not – well, back to my headline here.
Why? The media loves something new and controversial to talk about. So health care reform dropped lower on Thursday’s rundown, as all the networks led with the race angle on the arrest of Professor Gates. And the cables are still yacking about it as I write this. Obama’s own words reignited the race debate in America, just as he’s trying to get folks behind his push for health care reform.
Media hates it. But sometimes in the world of p.r., a well thought-out non-answer works better than wading into an issue, only to create a tsunami of controversy that knocks you down.
What are they smokin’ out in California? That’s how a pro-legalized marijuana group is suggesting to help raise state revenues , and save the Golden State from sinking in an ocean of out-of-control spending!
“Everybody must get stoned,” as Bob Dylan once sang, so Cali can keep paying all its teachers and cops.
California is by far not the only state in deep financial do-do. And it turns out, some aren’t really using their federal stimulus jobs for those shovel-ready projects; they’re using it just to pay bills.
Weird words from Rev. Al Sharpton at the memorial for Michael Jackson (besides the part where he told Jacko’s kids, “Wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy.”)
As you can see here, Sharpton talked about how Jackson “changed the culture” so that we don’t think it’s strange to watch Oprah on tv, or to see Tiger Woods play golf, or that we elected our first African American president, or that other races got into music by a black artist.
Really? Let me take those one at a time.
I know I was far from the only white kid who liked watching Bill Cosby long before Oprah came on tv. Before Tiger was born, Calvin Peete and Jim Thorpe broke the “color barrier” on the PGA. I also wasn’t the only white guy who liked listening to some Stevie Wonder, Lou Rawls, and other Motown artists before Michael. (And by the way, I also liked the “before” Michael and his music from “Off The Wall” and “Thriller.”)
Electing President Obama? OK, that was indeed a first — a nationally elected black man with enormous white crossover support. But Jackson gets credit for that?
After the pop king’s death, Sharpton wasn’t the first person to claim Jackson as a black icon. There was Jamie Foxx at the BET awards. And I’m wondering why.
This is a man who butchered and bleached away his own black identity. He even chose a white woman, inseminated by a white man (apparantly), to carry his white babies. And who brought shame onto himself for his — well, let’s just say — inappropriate bed partners.
So why do blacks so enthusiastically embrace as one of their own a deviant man who seemed not to want to be black? I’m asking because I don’t understand. Maybe you can help me.
His words are lost on the big three networks, which plan to cover the event alongside the cable news and entertainment channels. The moves by ABC, CBS, and NBC surprise me. I could see some live, break-in coverage. But the whole service? When viewers can get the same thing on so many other channels? I’d keep showing my normal daytime programming and keep my loyal viewers happy. But they don’t ask me.
I’m just glad I don’t have the job of answering the phones at work on Tuesday.
er possible massive fine from the FCC. Like they’ll probably get for the singer’s disgusting performance Sunday night on the American Music Awards. I won’t embed this one. But if you care to see it, click 
er-the-top freaky.
A JP in in Tangipahoa Parish has managed to set Louisiana back about six decades, and 
I want to thank a former “friend” on Facebook. He brought t
o my attention that actor Charlie Sheen is part of the 9/11 truther movement. I can now cross anything “Charlie Sheen” off my viewing list.
Yes, they violated a court order. Yes, they probably knew better. And yes — unbelievably — a couple of school leaders have been 
A cop arrests a man who’d broken into his own home. Not for that, of course. For disorderly conduct. Apparantly the man — who’s a bit famous, but quite cranky about not being able to get in his own door after a long trip — resisted showing i.d. and kept screaming racism and stuff about the cops’ mother, even as the cop was reportedly walking away. Guess that would irritate me, too, if I were the cop. But did it rise to 
But then Obama went on to say, “There’s a long history in this country of African Americans being stopped disproportionately by the police. It’s a sign of how race remains a factor in this society.”
What are they smokin’ out in California? That’s how a pro-legalized marijuana group is 
Weird words from Rev. Al Sharpton at the memorial for Michael Jackson (besides the part where he told Jacko’s kids, “Wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy.”)
As the