Saturday, February 27, 2016

"....Things I Thought Of While Thinking Up Things To Talk About...."


Random thoughts, ponders and wonders for the weekend....


...Melissa Harris-Perry is refusing to do her MSNBC show today (Sat, 27) because, she says, the network has "silenced" her by repeatedly preempting the program in recent weeks due to, according to MSNBC, "the unforeseen needs of the 2016 Presidential campaign"......not a big fan of Harris-Perry,
but it occurs that maybe the best way for her to deal with her belief in this injustice is to refrain from refusing to do the show that has been scheduled today for the first time in weeks due to its being preempted so much....the game of f*** me?, no, f*** YOU is really only winnable if you've got some sizable clout....whatever clout Harris-Perry has, it has never appeared to be particularly sizable...




...Mexico's former president, Vincente Fox, has thrown shade, as the youngsters put it, on the Donald for the King of CombOver's continued pledge to "build a wall and have the Mexicans pay for it"....Fox's public response was a Trumpishly blunt, "..ain't gonna pay for no f***in' wall..."....and, now, the former prez has publicly compared the Donald to the Adolf, saying "...he's going to take that nation (U.S.) back to the old days of conflict, war and everything. I mean, he reminds me of Hitler. That's the way he started speaking,..."
....despite Trump's continued success on the primary trail, there are a lot of people (present company included) who still believe that the majority of Americans necessary to put a stop to Trump-a-palooza will rise up and speak out, one way or another, before it goes so far as to be too far....of course, you'd think that the majority of Germans necessary to put a stop to the Adolf-a-thon would have acted, too, given that, in 1930, there were 67 million of them......




...Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, the two former Michigan state representatives who were caught with their hands in each others' respective cookie jars, were charged yesterday with felony misconduct in office (although, there's not a single voter in the whole country I've ever met who wouldn't wonder out loud how we're supposed to know the difference between your everyday garden variety misconduct in office and felony misconduct in office).....came across a video of Gamrat's tearful public apology from last year and wonder why folks who get busted being bad boys and girls always insist on adding insult (to our intelligence) to injury with lines in their "mea culpas" like "...this behavior is not a part of who I am or what I stand for...."....uh, duh, you did it.....and if you hadn't got caught, chances are pretty good you wouldn't have just showed up at CNN or Fox one day to ask for air time to "confess something", so, it's not unfair to say that, uh, yeah, that behavior IS part of who you are and what you stand for.....here's a thought....next time, how about just "...I'm human, I'm flawed, I failed and I'm sorry..."
....the rest of us flawed, failed humans are incapable of resisting feeling empathy and/or even support for someone when they're down.....the trick, though, is to just admit the down and leave out the part about "but, usually, I stand up".....it just makes you look disingenuous and makes us feel like you think that we're stupid....




..speaking of stupid, Raven-Symone', the once upon a time child star who was adorable as a 4 year old on "The Cosby Show", not entirely obnoxious as a teenager on the Disney Channel kids show, "That's So Raven" and, as seems to eventually happen to all the borderline "celebrities" who, with the end of The Hollywood Squares, have no other place to go, end up co-hosting "The View" debuted her new weight loss program this week, the Raven Symone' Put Your Foot In Your Mouth Instead Of Carbs Diet....she remarked for God, country and audience alike that she would move to Canada "...if any Republican gets nominated for President..."...as you might imagine, social media exploded with hoots, hollers and catcalls fired off in the direction of the African American Airhead, not so much for her obvious political preference as for her obvious lack of awareness as to what constitutes the difference between being "nominated" and being "elected".....
in fairness, at least a little slack should be cut if only because we've all seen enough late night talk show segments where the host goes out on the street and asks young people about the issues of the day to justify being surprised by Raven's malfunctioning medulla....we were especially entertained, and simultaneously appalled, by the one showing a dozen or so college kids on a particular campus unable to correctly answer the question "who won the Civil War?" but who, to a student, correctly answered the question "where would you find Snooki?..."...and while it might sound overly gloomy and doomy to suggest that we've been raising generations of idiots for a while now, the evidence does seem to support the suggestion that we've been raising generations of idiots for a while now.....in search of an upside, though, let's try this...for those who are offended, even outraged, by this business of a lack of color in the Academy Awards, here's some good news for you: the traditional, stererotype of the white, blond, Barbie space cadet now comes in a new shade: Raven Symone'.....


meanwhile, speaking of shades (or more stupid, as you prefer), MAC Cosmetics announces that they have signed a deal with Caitlyn Jenner for the mostly her, still a little him to promote a signature line of makeups starting with a soon to be released lipstick called "Finally Free".....
since I already used the Michael Jackson lyric line "I don't know whether / to laugh or cry" in another essay earlier this week, I'll take a pass on using it here, regardless of how exquisitely appropriate it is....and getting past any cheap shot or prurient punchlines like "...ladies using the new Caitlyn Jenner lipstick, Finally Free, are struggling with the dilemma of what to do should some of it get on their teeth...spit...or swallow...", let's just say this and let it go at that: please, God, make it stop....amen...






TODAY'S Ba DUM Bump...Yoko has been hospitalized for "extreme flu like symptoms"......she's 83 now so better safe than sorry....
reports from the hospital staff say that she is, despite opinions to the contrary, a very funny lady....at least we assume that she is after hearing one of a group of four young doctors was overhead saying "....that Yoko....she breaks us up....."




AND, not for nothin'......this weekend's "are you effin kiddin' me is a two for the price of one....rumors are flying that Katy Perry is actually the grown up JonBenet Ramsey....
.and that Ted Cruz is actually the Zodiac Killer...
the good news is that, of course, Katy Perry is actually Katy Perry....the bad news, of course, is that Ted Cruz is actually Ted Cruz...........


enjoy your weekend

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