Quick Hits
Blogger is sucking today and I don’t want to do separate posts and wait 45 minutes each time for the damn dashboard to download, so I'll throw these all in one post:
* I honestly don’t know which is funnier: that President Bush has a Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, or that Clay Aiken wants to be on it. I report, you decide.
* Wonkette’s trying to start a Panda War! Fuck you Wonkette, right in the ear! Our baby panda still gets to go through its entire cute infancy, toddler and childhood phases (all the while being watched on webcam) while yours is now an over the hill has-been. And if we get a second baby panda, then we DEFINITELY win. Besides, our panda’s nickname (I hereby christen him/her Bling Bling) is way better than Butterstick. So there.
* It’s been a good week for celebrity haters (and I know you’re out there, I see who clicks over to the Superficial!). Paris Hilton got a DUI *and* cried after she was denied entrance to Bungalow 8 nightclub. Jessica Simpson got dumped by John Mayer shortly after whoring out their nascent quasi-relationship on the cover of People with the line “I think I’m in love!” Meanwhile, Britney’s apparently going to name her unborn daughter Jailynn, because having a sister named Jamie Lynn after her parents Jamie and Lynn wasn’t bad enough. (Though, it is better than naming her daughter after a fruit.) And finally, John Travolta got caught on camera kissing a boy, resurrecting all those old rumors that he became a Scientologist to cleanse himself of the gay.
At this point, if someone told me Lindsay Lohan had antibiotically-resistant syphillis, I might have to declare this the best celebrity news week ever. (I’m being nice here and choosing not to pick on strange-looking Suri Cruise. Oops, I guess I just did.)
2 comments:
Someone just sent me the link to this blog item -- http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/08/when_children_o.html
It's about whether the Internet postings of the children of pols and judges should be news fodder. I think it's fair game to look at what's out there in the public domain. At the same time, I think you've got to be careful not to blow the kid-speak (or anyone-speak) out of proportion. Sometimes a kid's remark might be
simply an ironic counterpoint. Other times, it might be worth a closer look.
Thanks Ima, I've seen a lot of this on Wonkette lately, with Pierce Bush, the Frist kids, and several others who've had their MySpace and Facebook pages analyzed for any alcohol, girl-on-girl kissing, or bong usage. Every time I see one of these things, I just think about all the stupid things I said and did in college and even afterwards--and if that stuff were displayed for my parents, current bosses, or printed in the local newspaper. (A certain bet about the Red Sox springs to mind...) I hate the idea that teenagers will have implications about their possible stupid choices plastered out there for the world to see. But then, I think about someone like Chelsea Clinton who managed to make it the whole way through college with her dad as President and NOT get tarred with that brush. Maybe she's just a super-kid, I dunno.
The internet makes it way easier for us to have all of our stupid decisions broadcast to the world and memorialized forever. I'm quite sure I'll pay the price for that one day. I'll be up for Senate confirmation for a federal judicial position, and suddenly out come the topless photos...
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