Mindy Newell: Take A Lesson
Are you sick and tired of all the crap that’s going on down in D.C? As in Washington, D.C., not DC Comics.
Believe it or not, me, too. Here is a breakdown of the last 4½ years of political discourse between our political leaders:
“You did it.”
“No, you did it.”
“I’m telling.”
“No, I’m telling.”
“That’s my ball.”
“No, it’s not, it’s my ball.”
“You cheated.”
“So did you.”
“I dare you.”
“I double-dare you.”
For Christ’s sake, grow the fuck up, children!!!!! Or take a lesson from The Avengers – beat the shit out of each other a la Iron Man and Thor, then realize you made a mistake and come together as a team to fight the real bad guy!
I missed the Oscars this year because I watched Tootsie and Kramer Vs. Kramer on Turner Classic Movies, part of their “31 Days of Oscar” routine. I did read and hear about them, though, especially McFarlane’s performance as host, and watched YouTube to form my own opinion. McFarlane’s comments about Jews really offended me. In fact, most of his spiel offended me. Although I do think he’s very smart, and I tend to agree with him when he’s on Bill Maher…to tell you the truth, I’d rather he’d stick to political commentary – I just don’t find him funny.
Reading Lawrence Wright’s latest book, which is about Scientology (Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison Of Belief). Picked it up because I was so impressed with Wright’s The Looming Tower, which is about the radicalization of Bin Laden, the birth and growth of Al Quada, and 9/11. The later is highly recommended to understand what happened and to help put today’s politics in context – I believe we are still politically paying for the attack on the World Trade Center, and in that way, Bin Laden – may he roast in hellfire for eternity – was successful. The former book, however, is not as eye opening for me; I’ve always known that Scientology is nothing but a big scam set up by a hack science fiction writer who wanted to “get rich quick.”
Scientology is L. Ron Hubbard’s definition of “there’s a sucker born every minute.” Scientology is a Seduction Of The Innocents and its victims need a good lawyer. Matt Murdock, where are you? Take these Kingpins on. Challenge the organization’s “church” status in court and get their tax-exempt status revoked. That would help a lot of the poor schnooks who have been taken in by the scam.
The Who have it right. Hope I die before I get old.
Wolverine is lucky to have an adamantium skeleton and regenerative powers…my dad had another seizure/stroke a month ago. He’s not coming back from this one. Not really. My mother is physically and emotionally a wreck, on the verge of stroking out herself. The delivery of health care in this country is a disgrace. It’s in the control of the banksters and the insurance companies and price gougers, who get rich off of the sick while reimbursements from Medicare are being cut down to nothing, and since staffing is the biggest expense that medical organizations face, hospitals and nursing homes are forced to use the axe, the result being that patient care is dangerously compromised.
I can’t think of a super-hero from whom we can take a lesson on this one, who can fight this.
Can you?
TUESDAY MORNING: Emily S. Whitten
TUESDAY AFTERNOON: Michael Davis
I’m out on a limb here (or maybe a bad feminist), but I didn’t hate McFarlane. I thought he was being McFarlane. The people who hired him had surely seen his shtick before. And you can’t improvise big production numbers. Someone must have okayed a script. The comments about Jews came from Ted, and his mistake was in thinking that enough people had seen the movie to get the character.
And I didn’t hate the “boobs” number either. I thought it made fun of the adolescent boy behavior, not the women in the movies.
Also, watching Joseph Gordon-Levitt dance was divine.
“In fact, most of his spiel offended me. Although I do think he’s very smart, and I tend to agree with him when he’s on Bill Maher…to tell you the truth, I’d rather he’d stick to political commentary – I just don’t find him funny.”
Well I prefer if MacFarlane stuck to comedy and refrained from political commentary, but that’s just me. And if MacFarlane didn’t offend, he would be doing something wrong.
And coincidentally, here is story about a time when MacFarlane was on Bill Maher with Andrew Breitbard. Give it a read.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/05/toast-to-seth-macfarlane-andrew-breitbart-father
“It all started when Johnny hit me back first.”