The Internet rallied around this tearful Southern boy. He was invited to next year Avengers movie premiere. He got to meet pro football players. Except his daddy is a white supremacist in prison. He was literally photographed holding the Confederate battle flag like a young Dylan Roof. (We should not blame this boy. His momma gave him a flag and told him to pose, so he did.) People jumped to conclusions about what was going on. Things just got super awkward for all these celebrities who wanted to be this boy's friend.
But why did he ever have a GoFundMe page? He didn't need a liver transplant. This is in some regards a repeat of that homeless good Samaritan who ended up being rewarded with more than $300,000 in charitable donations. Why? Because he gave his last twenty to help a photogenic white woman buy gasoline. (Never mind that giving that much money to a recovering drug addict could trigger a relapse.) People aren't giving to homeless shelters or food kitchens. They have decided that this one homeless man was a great guy. Let's give him money!
This phenomenon is a mirror to our current tendency to publicly shame people who do something that we impulsively believe was wrong, without knowing about the CONTEXT in which the event took place. Jon Ronson just wrote a great book about this: So You've Been Publicly Shamed. This is where fake news comes from--it is created organically and is not agenda driven. Like a game of telephone, our love or outrage gets distorted. We can blame Russia or we can blame human stupidity.
So we must be more wary of these viral videos. Don't think with your heart. Think with your brain. Because that's what your brain is for.
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Friday, October 27, 2017
To the genuine victims of Harvey Weinstein, let me start off by saing: "It wasn't your fault."
Everyone does disgraceful things to advance their careers. ("Art is good. Artists tend to be scumbags. But art is good!" as I like to tell myself.) So much of show business is based on personal relationships, fluid work hours/locations and a great deal of nudity. These things lead to nepotism and lax professional work environments. When President Bill Clinton was caught receiving oral sex in the Oval Office, it was so many in Hollywood who said "so what?" In show business, it is not uncommon for men to have sex with female--and sometimes male--subordinates. What Clinton participated in was not just a morality issue but also a sex crime. Hollywood has never really addressed that, rather changing the subject to illustrate Republican/conservative hypocrisies on sex.
The question of why this is all coming out now can be condensed to: Weinstein is an old lion. Past his prime, he's now too weak to defend himself against his adversaries. He is the last of the Hollywood gatekeepers, the old time studioheads who decided which movies would get made and who would have careers in filmmaking. Kids can now create their own passion projects, independent of Project Greenlight. The technologically modern idea of public shaming on a global scale has taken hold, and three decades of bad karma and masturbating into potted plants have come back to haunt him. It could not have happened to a nicer guy. So what was once an open secret became a public scandal, as countless women (and some men) must now disclose what they know and when they knew it. Not in 2000 years have so many Jews publically denied knowing one of their champions. Weinstein is like Jesus if Jesus had asked women to watch him shower. In a few months, Hollywood liberals will discover Roman Polanski raped a girl.
Donald Trump is being blamed for the issue of toxic male culture. (Why couldn't Hillary have become President? She would've stepped into her time machine and stopped that sex offender from sex offending and making her political career possible, thus triggering a paradox that...would've destroyed the observable universe!) The difference is that Weinstein paid millions to make these charges go away while Trump often refused to settle, refusing to acknowledge his sex crimes ever happened. The difference is there's audio of Trump joking about grabbing women by the pussy and audio of Weinstein attempting to do it. Weinstein's accusers outnumber Trump's by at least a factor of ten, many of whom are wealty and famous in their own right--and not all accusers are equals.
Let's not mince words: Weinstein was able to do what he did because he was making money. Money for Miramax. Money for Disney. Money for the Weinstein Company. If these companies paid out a million to settle claims in a given year, he would've made fifty times that for these companies.
The problem should be that Weinstein was using Miramax and later the Weinstein Company as a slush to pay off his inappropriate behavior. Art is a business here, and there is still some decorum in conducting one's self in a business setting. It should not be about how attractive he is or was.
It is my understanding that Weinstein was never exactly a ladies' man. (His pick-up move involved asking women if they wanted to watch him shower; far from ingenious, this was pathetic. Weinstein's MO was pathetic.) Like Bill Clinton, Weinstein was not popular with girls in school. Whereas Clinton had intelligence and charisma, Weinstein had intelligence and bluster. Cruelty got him to the top. So many of them behind the scenes of Hollywood--whether directors or producers or unemployed screenwriters--were weird kids growing up. They weren't the popular boys surrounded by legions of friends. This leaves a void in an older man's life, as he is guided by the same raw instincts but previously had no ability to satisfy them. You "use what you got" in this world, and Weinstein had power as a producer and a studio head.
At the root of these claims are typically Weinstein's attempts to get laid. Kate Beckinsale recounts her coming into the exec's hotel room (when she was 17!) and he clumsily attempted to seduce her. The actress recalled that it “did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him.” Since Beckinsale opened this door, let's all agree that more women would've watched him shower if he looked like Brad Pitt. (By the way, how weird was it that Weinstein kept trying to bang Pitt's girlfriends?) So much of it having been harassment was not an issue of female professionalism--many of these women have had sex with their costars or coworkers--but the issue was that Weinstein wasn't hot. If he had been, it wouldn't have been sexual harassment so much as sexual fulfillment. Hollywood has long fought for the private sex lives of consenting adults--often while employing the most liberal uses of the terms "consenting" and "adult." The ladies wouldn't have been complaining if they were attracted to him; the scandal would be much smaller. Instead we have the image of real-world Jabba the Hut trying to find a girl to put on the gold bikini.
In defense of Harvey Weinstein, he probably didn't ruin that many careers. These women told him to go fuck himself--or stop fucking himself in front of them--and he moved on to the next woman. That he had Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow blacklisted in the 90s stretches credibility. The work dried up for Mira Sorvino and Rosanna Arquette because they turned 30. They got old. Too old for teenage boys to whack off to them without thinking about their mothers. Megan Fox will soon be her generation's Mira Sorvino. Not Weinstein's fault, specifically. More of an issue of how time works.
Hollywood and Weinstein specifically contributed to a series of anti-Christian movies, espousing the hypocrisies of the Catholic Church and Christianity in general (Dogma, Doubt, Priest, Bob Roberts). Hollywood calls Trump a Nazi, while giving an Oscar to an actual Nazi. (I'm not kidding. Google Leni Riefenstahl.) The real perverts are Christian men, especially white Republicans. Gay men aren't freaks who like to touch boys; Catholic priests are freaks who like to touch boys. "SEE!?! LOOK AT THE HYPOCRISY!!! Vote for gay marriage." Vice-President and conservative Christian Mike Pence gets mocked for not wanting to be alone with a female, and Weinstein gets mocked for enjoying his private meetings with female coworkers. Hollywood can't have it both ways. Hollywood, like all of the American workforce, has to choose at what point do things appear inappropriate.
Meanwhile, so many mainstream artists have been living elbow deep in sexual perversion. They gave an Oscar to Roman Polanski, a well-known child rapist. Weinstein bundled millions to popular liberal candidates, including the Clintons and Obama. Donald Trump can breath a sigh of relief.
The question of why this is all coming out now can be condensed to: Weinstein is an old lion. Past his prime, he's now too weak to defend himself against his adversaries. He is the last of the Hollywood gatekeepers, the old time studioheads who decided which movies would get made and who would have careers in filmmaking. Kids can now create their own passion projects, independent of Project Greenlight. The technologically modern idea of public shaming on a global scale has taken hold, and three decades of bad karma and masturbating into potted plants have come back to haunt him. It could not have happened to a nicer guy. So what was once an open secret became a public scandal, as countless women (and some men) must now disclose what they know and when they knew it. Not in 2000 years have so many Jews publically denied knowing one of their champions. Weinstein is like Jesus if Jesus had asked women to watch him shower. In a few months, Hollywood liberals will discover Roman Polanski raped a girl.
Donald Trump is being blamed for the issue of toxic male culture. (Why couldn't Hillary have become President? She would've stepped into her time machine and stopped that sex offender from sex offending and making her political career possible, thus triggering a paradox that...would've destroyed the observable universe!) The difference is that Weinstein paid millions to make these charges go away while Trump often refused to settle, refusing to acknowledge his sex crimes ever happened. The difference is there's audio of Trump joking about grabbing women by the pussy and audio of Weinstein attempting to do it. Weinstein's accusers outnumber Trump's by at least a factor of ten, many of whom are wealty and famous in their own right--and not all accusers are equals.
Let's not mince words: Weinstein was able to do what he did because he was making money. Money for Miramax. Money for Disney. Money for the Weinstein Company. If these companies paid out a million to settle claims in a given year, he would've made fifty times that for these companies.
The problem should be that Weinstein was using Miramax and later the Weinstein Company as a slush to pay off his inappropriate behavior. Art is a business here, and there is still some decorum in conducting one's self in a business setting. It should not be about how attractive he is or was.
It is my understanding that Weinstein was never exactly a ladies' man. (His pick-up move involved asking women if they wanted to watch him shower; far from ingenious, this was pathetic. Weinstein's MO was pathetic.) Like Bill Clinton, Weinstein was not popular with girls in school. Whereas Clinton had intelligence and charisma, Weinstein had intelligence and bluster. Cruelty got him to the top. So many of them behind the scenes of Hollywood--whether directors or producers or unemployed screenwriters--were weird kids growing up. They weren't the popular boys surrounded by legions of friends. This leaves a void in an older man's life, as he is guided by the same raw instincts but previously had no ability to satisfy them. You "use what you got" in this world, and Weinstein had power as a producer and a studio head.
At the root of these claims are typically Weinstein's attempts to get laid. Kate Beckinsale recounts her coming into the exec's hotel room (when she was 17!) and he clumsily attempted to seduce her. The actress recalled that it “did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him.” Since Beckinsale opened this door, let's all agree that more women would've watched him shower if he looked like Brad Pitt. (By the way, how weird was it that Weinstein kept trying to bang Pitt's girlfriends?) So much of it having been harassment was not an issue of female professionalism--many of these women have had sex with their costars or coworkers--but the issue was that Weinstein wasn't hot. If he had been, it wouldn't have been sexual harassment so much as sexual fulfillment. Hollywood has long fought for the private sex lives of consenting adults--often while employing the most liberal uses of the terms "consenting" and "adult." The ladies wouldn't have been complaining if they were attracted to him; the scandal would be much smaller. Instead we have the image of real-world Jabba the Hut trying to find a girl to put on the gold bikini.
In defense of Harvey Weinstein, he probably didn't ruin that many careers. These women told him to go fuck himself--or stop fucking himself in front of them--and he moved on to the next woman. That he had Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow blacklisted in the 90s stretches credibility. The work dried up for Mira Sorvino and Rosanna Arquette because they turned 30. They got old. Too old for teenage boys to whack off to them without thinking about their mothers. Megan Fox will soon be her generation's Mira Sorvino. Not Weinstein's fault, specifically. More of an issue of how time works.
Hollywood and Weinstein specifically contributed to a series of anti-Christian movies, espousing the hypocrisies of the Catholic Church and Christianity in general (Dogma, Doubt, Priest, Bob Roberts). Hollywood calls Trump a Nazi, while giving an Oscar to an actual Nazi. (I'm not kidding. Google Leni Riefenstahl.) The real perverts are Christian men, especially white Republicans. Gay men aren't freaks who like to touch boys; Catholic priests are freaks who like to touch boys. "SEE!?! LOOK AT THE HYPOCRISY!!! Vote for gay marriage." Vice-President and conservative Christian Mike Pence gets mocked for not wanting to be alone with a female, and Weinstein gets mocked for enjoying his private meetings with female coworkers. Hollywood can't have it both ways. Hollywood, like all of the American workforce, has to choose at what point do things appear inappropriate.
Meanwhile, so many mainstream artists have been living elbow deep in sexual perversion. They gave an Oscar to Roman Polanski, a well-known child rapist. Weinstein bundled millions to popular liberal candidates, including the Clintons and Obama. Donald Trump can breath a sigh of relief.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, Nevada
I expected the shooter to have been a white nationalist or a BLM activist--or certainly a home grown Islamic terrorist. No. (ISL, like the nerdy kid at your high school who claimed he had a Canadian girlfriend, claimed responsibility for this old white guy's behavior.) It was a millionaire white senior citizen--who lived in a retirement community--who killed almost 60 people and hospitalized almost 600.
If there were a political or social cause, the massacre at Mandalay Bay would be less terrible. It would've been about something. Instead, as of this writing, it was about a white millionaire with no political ideology killing a bunch of people because he could. A whale of a gambler with no particular grudge against the city of Las Vegas or the country music industry. He left behind no manifesto, no social media writings--and his family thought he was a harmless businessman with an interest in hunting. No, it was not a terrorist attack. (If every murder is a terrorist attack, then no murder is a terrorist attack. Hate crimes are closer to the definition of a terrorist attack.) It is a different kind of disturbing than a terrorist attack.
Banning bump stocks would not have stopped Virginia Tech, Newtown, Columbine or literally any other crime ever. (VT and Newton were done entirely with handguns.) Maybe Congress will thus muster the courage to do that.
If there were a political or social cause, the massacre at Mandalay Bay would be less terrible. It would've been about something. Instead, as of this writing, it was about a white millionaire with no political ideology killing a bunch of people because he could. A whale of a gambler with no particular grudge against the city of Las Vegas or the country music industry. He left behind no manifesto, no social media writings--and his family thought he was a harmless businessman with an interest in hunting. No, it was not a terrorist attack. (If every murder is a terrorist attack, then no murder is a terrorist attack. Hate crimes are closer to the definition of a terrorist attack.) It is a different kind of disturbing than a terrorist attack.
Banning bump stocks would not have stopped Virginia Tech, Newtown, Columbine or literally any other crime ever. (VT and Newton were done entirely with handguns.) Maybe Congress will thus muster the courage to do that.
Monday, September 25, 2017
#takeaknee--or not, whatever. I don't care. (America flag: good. Confederate flag: bad.)
You know how you feel about seeing the Confederate flag? That's how so many--probably a majority--of Americans feel about people who are disrespecting the American flag or the national anthem. This is not a win for liberals; like Jane Fonda, it illustrates how out of touch these elitist liberals are with regular Americans. It does, however, further show how bad--I mean, BAD--Trump is as President.
Trump was given a question, and he replied in his Trumpian fashion: fire the sonsofbitches who protest DURING the national anthem. This was not breaching the First Amendment, since you're not entitled to play for the NFL, regardless of race or political leanings. What is interesting, however, is how heavily subsidized the NFL is by the federal and local governments. (Research it.... Right!?!) In a roundabout way, the taxpayers are paying these wealthy jocks to protest America(?)
This isn't about BLM or resist or even racial inequity. The players, coaches, team owners, et al don't appreciate being told what to do by a man whom many probably didn't vote for. (Some of them, like Colin Kaepernick, didn't vote at all. Because he respect America so much?) The NFL ignored all the CTE, but would not stand by and let their employment policies be dictated by outsiders.
Trump again overestimated how much influence that he had--although, really, he has helped fortify his base by waging war with these rich team owners and their America-hating employees. He advanced the kneel movement more than the currently unemployed Kaepernick, who doesn't even have a job.
Trump was given a question, and he replied in his Trumpian fashion: fire the sonsofbitches who protest DURING the national anthem. This was not breaching the First Amendment, since you're not entitled to play for the NFL, regardless of race or political leanings. What is interesting, however, is how heavily subsidized the NFL is by the federal and local governments. (Research it.... Right!?!) In a roundabout way, the taxpayers are paying these wealthy jocks to protest America(?)
This isn't about BLM or resist or even racial inequity. The players, coaches, team owners, et al don't appreciate being told what to do by a man whom many probably didn't vote for. (Some of them, like Colin Kaepernick, didn't vote at all. Because he respect America so much?) The NFL ignored all the CTE, but would not stand by and let their employment policies be dictated by outsiders.
Trump again overestimated how much influence that he had--although, really, he has helped fortify his base by waging war with these rich team owners and their America-hating employees. He advanced the kneel movement more than the currently unemployed Kaepernick, who doesn't even have a job.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Looks like Kate Beckinsale's daughter has a new boyfriend--oh, wait.
"Oh, look, my bloomers be goin' down!"
I have mental images of Kate Beckinsale watching old episodes of Nickelodeon's "All That," researching her current boyfriend's prior (recent) work, which makes me laugh. She seems like a classy lady, and won't get Nick humor.
If their genders were reversed--it would still seem odd. Beckinsale looks ten years younger, and Rife looks a few years older. They might be enjoying each other's company, and he might be enjoying her money. But if Lily Mo Sheen ends up bringing home a 40-year-old man, you can't be angry now, Kate. That's totally the rule.
There are advantages to this couple. If there relationship ever hits a rough spot, she can always take his Xbox away.
When he's ready to have kids, she'll be dried up like jerky. When he goes thru his midlife crisis, she'll be dead. There's a reason why Ashton Kutcher left Demi Moore for Millennial Demi Moore, Mila Kunis: She could give him a normal life. Now they have averaged-sized children. Because Mila Kunis is a dwarf.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
The Steve Scalise attempted assassination...
This was the one thing to take people's attention away from the Congressional Russian investigation of the Trump administration. Now only if government officials had the authority to take guns away from people--nah, never mind.
The shooter was apparently a small business owner targeting Republican Congressmen. Really, it's like if someone had tried to assassinate Nancy Pelosi with gay porn.
Shockingly, the attempted assassin had formerly felt the Bern, and was an active Bernie Sanders supporter. Again, the insane gunman was NOT a supporter of Donald Trump. We are all surprised. If this were a Trump supporter, leftwingers would be all over it. That this nut was a Sanders supporters, the left will say we shouldn't act too hasty in assigning judgement. Time will tell how bad things get with a Republican controlled Congress. This ended up being closer to a suicide by cop as an act of terrorism.
Citizen engagement is a wonderful thing. Still, perhaps we all need to calm the hell down with the "fascism" allegations, and better articulate what we are resisting.
The shooter was apparently a small business owner targeting Republican Congressmen. Really, it's like if someone had tried to assassinate Nancy Pelosi with gay porn.
Shockingly, the attempted assassin had formerly felt the Bern, and was an active Bernie Sanders supporter. Again, the insane gunman was NOT a supporter of Donald Trump. We are all surprised. If this were a Trump supporter, leftwingers would be all over it. That this nut was a Sanders supporters, the left will say we shouldn't act too hasty in assigning judgement. Time will tell how bad things get with a Republican controlled Congress. This ended up being closer to a suicide by cop as an act of terrorism.
Citizen engagement is a wonderful thing. Still, perhaps we all need to calm the hell down with the "fascism" allegations, and better articulate what we are resisting.
Monday, June 5, 2017
Pumpkin vs. Pumpkin: The Strange Case of Kathy Griffin versus Donald Trump
We've all seen the photo now. I won't post it because I don't want that shit. It clearly wasn't a threat--still, free of context, it could've been reasonably taken as a threat. One thing is for certain: Kathy Griffin will be audited a lot the next few years, because Donald Trump will abuse that power. He will abuse the hell out of that power. He will send the IRS to grab her by the pussy.
How was this different than the times that Ted Nugent threatened both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? Nugent was Trump's friend, for one. But also Nugent didn't do a visual representation. Nugent made offhand comments; Kathy's "threat" had production values. Yes, Nugent is batshit crazy. Also probably a pedophile.
The Trump clan has used this to distract the media from how terrible they all are. (Melania Trump claimed that when their son saw the photo, he thought it was really his dad's head. How often does Baron see his father if he thought this? He's a 21st century kid; he knows a lot of images aren't real.) And though I'm no fan of the Trumps, they were right to be offended. These weren't Tim Allen verbal jabs at Hillary on his cancelled(?) "Last Man Standing."
A couple of days ago, Griffin appeared in a news conference to spin in with Lisa Bloom. She brought out a laundry list of a shockingly small sample of the terrible things that Trump has said and did, and used it as a justification for that photo. The photo was mocking his mocking of a female's menstruation cycle, you see. However she forgot a cardinal rules of comedy: If you have to explain a joke, then it isn't funny.
This is not a feminist issue. But a common sense issue. Trump is still the President, and though we don't have to respect him--we really shouldn't--the rules have changed as to how he can be depicted.
Kathy Griffin, like so many Hollywood liberals, managed to do the impossible: Make the Trumps sympathetic. Her attempts to wrap her stupidity in social justice warrior outrage has fallen flat.
How was this different than the times that Ted Nugent threatened both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? Nugent was Trump's friend, for one. But also Nugent didn't do a visual representation. Nugent made offhand comments; Kathy's "threat" had production values. Yes, Nugent is batshit crazy. Also probably a pedophile.
The Trump clan has used this to distract the media from how terrible they all are. (Melania Trump claimed that when their son saw the photo, he thought it was really his dad's head. How often does Baron see his father if he thought this? He's a 21st century kid; he knows a lot of images aren't real.) And though I'm no fan of the Trumps, they were right to be offended. These weren't Tim Allen verbal jabs at Hillary on his cancelled(?) "Last Man Standing."
A couple of days ago, Griffin appeared in a news conference to spin in with Lisa Bloom. She brought out a laundry list of a shockingly small sample of the terrible things that Trump has said and did, and used it as a justification for that photo. The photo was mocking his mocking of a female's menstruation cycle, you see. However she forgot a cardinal rules of comedy: If you have to explain a joke, then it isn't funny.
This is not a feminist issue. But a common sense issue. Trump is still the President, and though we don't have to respect him--we really shouldn't--the rules have changed as to how he can be depicted.
Kathy Griffin, like so many Hollywood liberals, managed to do the impossible: Make the Trumps sympathetic. Her attempts to wrap her stupidity in social justice warrior outrage has fallen flat.
Friday, May 19, 2017
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The Pepsi Generation Needs to Take It Down a Notch.
Wow, that Pepsi ad just offended everyone. The multiracial models marched into the streets, carrying signs advocating "Love" and "Starting the conversation." These were pro-love protestors.
What Pepsi ended up doing was holding a mirror to the hipster douches in the "Resistance" movement. Things had gotten too real for them. Despite their colorful signs, these political activists have a shocking lack of sense of humor. Like Trump, they cannot laugh at themselves.
Last year, Beyoncé performed in the Pepsi-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show, using choreography and costuming that many saw as inspired by the Black Panthers. Whereas Beyoncé embraced her heritage, being a multimillionaire rebel whose music is on the iPods of little white girls everywhere, the Jenner ad was declared as insulting. Pepsi has been getting some mixed messages from you crazy kids. Not very pro-love of you.
(Note: Since the airing of this ad and the posting of this blog entry, United Airline was embroiled in a scandal of their own, thus taking the attention off Pepsi. Pepsi should send UA a fruit basket.)
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Book Review: We Don't Need Roads...
Much of it seems culled from movie trivia sites. (I have done the same, but this was a major publication, and not one of my independently published tomes.) Truly original content is minimum.
The reader gets a thorough recounting of the development and the original process of shooting with Eric Schultz. Back to the Future has the dubious distinction of being mostly reshot with a new actor. Why? The old one wasn't working out. The dedicated Schultz would also not perform a stage punch on Tom Wilson--rather resorting to real strikes--which was cruel and unprofessional. The replacement of Eric Schultz with Michael J. Fox most definitely saved the movie and turned it into the 1980s cinema touchstone that it is.
And there's the mystery of Crispin Glover. This drama ends up being the most interesting part of this book. That Glover was, at the time, the most successful actor on set was intriguing. Stories of his weirdness makes him one of the most well-sketched character in this book. His performance skills were unquestionable; his personal skills were controversial. This is followed by his replacement with struggling actor and Glover-replacement Jeffrey Weisman, who has the misfortune of becoming collateral damage in the fight between the rich and the very rich. The author tries to be fair and balanced, but he also clearly comes down on the Bobs' side: Glover asked for too much money, and he got cut.
The trilogy was life and career changing for all of the leads, for better and worse. It led to Glover being partially blacklisted and Wilson being typecast. There's an excellent recounting of all the things that the series got right about the future--which is now the past--and all the things that it got wrong. Wish they'd done more to warn us about 2015 Biff becoming our President, though.
Much attention is focused on hoverboards. The inspiration for hoverboards. The attempts to build hoverboards. Mattel's shameful knock-offs for hoverboard fans. The horrible injuries caused by hoverboards. I wish we had hoverboards in 2017, and not just two-wheeled douche machines that catch fire.
This might be a must-read for fans, but non-fans probably won't be interested.https://www.amazon.com/We-Dont-Need-Roads-Trilogy/dp/0142181536/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486839414&sr=1-1&keywords=we+don%27t+need+roads+the+making+of+the+back+to+the+future+trilogy
Monday, January 30, 2017
And you thought YOU had a bad time at the airport!
President Donald Trump is continuing to fulfill his cocaine-fueled promises and just banned everyone from several predominantly Islamic countries. Protests in our nation's airports have sprout up. People are mad at Uber for functioning as it should.
Just about 100 visa-holders were not allowed in the US. The problem is that this is now a Constitutional issue. Trump's ardent supporters do not ask such questions; he won them over with far crazier ideas, like banning all Muslim immigrants entirely. You either have a visa and you can enter America, or you don't and you can't. There is no middle ground, apparently. Trump just invented a middle ground, and people aren't playing along.
Trump has banned immigrants from countries such as Iran and Pakistan, but not nations that export a lot of terrorists, such as Saudi Arabia. In his defense, Saudi Arabia is technically a US ally. (Plus Trump Corporation has business interests over there!) Saudis commit a lot of terrorism because they can travel the world freely and are relatively well-educated--and that so many well-educated Muslims become terrorists is something we should all think about. Iranians have been persona non grata in this country since the 80s, so they commit few acts of terrorism against America. Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. That's why.
Ashton Kutcher gave an impassioned speech at last night's SAG Awards condemning this travel ban. Kutcher owns a part of Uber and has a financial interest in the company's success--also, you know, he's tolerant.
Also Mila Kunis has a penis.
Just about 100 visa-holders were not allowed in the US. The problem is that this is now a Constitutional issue. Trump's ardent supporters do not ask such questions; he won them over with far crazier ideas, like banning all Muslim immigrants entirely. You either have a visa and you can enter America, or you don't and you can't. There is no middle ground, apparently. Trump just invented a middle ground, and people aren't playing along.
Trump has banned immigrants from countries such as Iran and Pakistan, but not nations that export a lot of terrorists, such as Saudi Arabia. In his defense, Saudi Arabia is technically a US ally. (Plus Trump Corporation has business interests over there!) Saudis commit a lot of terrorism because they can travel the world freely and are relatively well-educated--and that so many well-educated Muslims become terrorists is something we should all think about. Iranians have been persona non grata in this country since the 80s, so they commit few acts of terrorism against America. Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. That's why.
Ashton Kutcher gave an impassioned speech at last night's SAG Awards condemning this travel ban. Kutcher owns a part of Uber and has a financial interest in the company's success--also, you know, he's tolerant.
Also Mila Kunis has a penis.
Monday, January 16, 2017
So Our New President is a 12-Year-Old Girl, I Guess
Oldies rocker Ted Nugent all but threatened Barack Obama, and Obama didn't give two shits. Why? Obama was the President of the United States; Nugent banged some underaged girls in the '70s. What Obama didn't do was tweet anything to him or about him. Obama was both an adult man and he was a high ranking representative of the United States. Fucked-up people will say fucked-up things. Government officials can't stop that.
WHY ISN'T DONALD TRUMP ACTING LIKE THE US PRESIDENT!?! WHY ISN'T HE ACTING LIKE AN ADULT!?!
WHY ISN'T DONALD TRUMP ACTING LIKE THE US PRESIDENT!?! WHY ISN'T HE ACTING LIKE AN ADULT!?!
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