Our readers are the best. Most of you are civil, you know how to spell, you manage to refrain from writing in mobile-phone SMS shorthand most of the time, and many of you send us tips so that we don’t have to write about Leonardo DiCaprio all the freaking time.
But of course, some of those tips are 24-karat gold and others are… well, merely 18-karat. (Did you like how I did that without making all of you feel stupid?) So our e-mail in-box gets a little full from time to time with old stuff that we just thought was a little too weak to spend more than a sentence on.
If you’re into that sort of slapdash, drive-by, short-attention-span kind of stuff, this is your lucky day!
Here goes …
- Barack Obama is a big fan of public-school education … except for his own kids. And he loved the idea of giving parents “vouchers” to send their kids to private schools … until he needed the support of teachers’ unions.
- Alabama’s Attorney General wants to outlaw homosexuality … so it must have come as a huge shock when his wife caught him in bed with another man.
- President Bush autographed an American flag with permanent marker … which kinda makes the whole Obama thing about monkeying with the Seal of the President seem less serious, no?
- Google refused a U.S. Senator’s request to block access to Al Qaeda videos … but made sure YouTube users in Thailand couldn’t see a clip that might offend their King.
- Laurie David preaches “green” living … but her neighbors tell Fox News she “took 75 acres of undeveloped wetlands and developed swimming pools during a six-year construction project.”
- Barbra Streisand loves to lecture about how to “stop global warming” … but her 2006 concert tour caravan included 33 fossil-fuel-burning vehicles, including 13 tractor-trailer trucks and 14 buses.
Discuss.
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I’m gonna tackle the Obama story.
I’m actually hoping that Obama becomes president now. At first I was against this mostly because I think he’s preposterously unqualified, but check it out. The day after he becomes president the following people become immediately obsolete.
Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
ALL the Reverend Wrights of the world.
Maybe even racial preferences of any kind? As soon as some one claims (insert wrong here)… because I’m black! Uh… black president.
See? It’s so easy. It’s only four years. The president has very little direct effect on the lives of most people. For the most part anyway. Other presidents have been disastrous and the U.S. is still alive and kickin’. I say buckle down get behind him. And believe you me, I can’t believe I’m saying that either.
nice snippets!
i wish you had printed the e-mail i sent you about the episode of “lou dobbs tonight” where i saw the intolerant and angry dobbs using a bic ballpoint pen that’s made in MEXICO (i know because i recognized the totally unique pen), but i understand if you didn’t want to print it because i failed to send you a picture of it. i have looked at cnn’s site for a clip of that broadcast, but still haven’t found it.
at least i can mention it here until i can find a clip of it, though the website crops a lot of the picture out, too.
As far as I had understood it, when some people reach a level of recognition or notoriety of any kind, they think they out of reach when it come from the judgment of the common men.
It was known that, during the Antique Rome, the Emperor had huge orgies where every decadence was permitted. In contrast, he asked austerity to all the citizen of the Empire. The goal was simple; proving that since he’s the Emperor, he had the right to be judged by more lenient standard.
The whole celebrity circus is the same hypocrite thing. The love they receive inflated their egos away from their brains and now they think they can preach the old “Do as I said not as I do”.
History repeating itself.
Interesting point, Pastafarian.
I’ll take the Mecha-Streisand story…I dated a roadie for a long time and I hung out backstage for the setup and teardown of a zillion concerts (I guess that’s kind of like saying I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV). Bottom line is, concerts are the most energy guzzling events I’ve ever seen in my life. The tour busses and many of the equipment trucks sit behind the venue with their engines run constantly, from the time of arrival to departure. I never figured out why they can’t just shut them off! Her concerts can’t be much different. Besides, didn’t she retire a few times? Save the earth! Make Mecha-Streisand retire!
Great snippets. I guess that deception in fame is like the universal laws of management…the level of one’s fame is inversely proportional to the level of one’s honesty or consistency.