is it too much to ask?

*taps mic*

Twas wondering:

why is it when Hollywood makes movies about angels, they speak like Princess Diana and look like footballers for Manchester United? would it kill them to make a movie where an angel looks like me?

that being said, i'm probably gonna see this movie. because the angels look like footballers for Manchetser United.

*drops mic*

Happy Hump Day!

Go, reader! Go, reader! shake ya money makah! get busy! it's ya birthday! not really! well maybe! go, go, go, go!

something to shake your bum to.

don't sprain anything. that would be dreadful.

hey Mika? Dr. Laura wants her schtick back.

Mika Brzezinski, the long suffering eye rolling co-host of Morning Joe, wrote a blog today on Huffington Post. in it she revealed some of the tips she shares with "young women about life lessons and TV career choices." for the most part, it read like the script from Up Close and Personal, but things really got good when she got to her coup de grâce: don't "forget" to get married and have some kids, girlfriends! and start in your 20s if you have to!!!



oh, yes she did.

Mika explains that if you think finding a good job is hard, wait until you get a load of how hard it is to find a descent mate to marry and procreate with:

"Bad news, girls. The odds are definitely better on getting the right job than getting a good partner for life...Don't push away that chance if you're one of the lucky ones who find that partner. And remember, you can always change a job. I hear it's much harder to switch out a husband."

and


"But let's talk about the greatest gift a woman can receive: being a mommy. For professional women, there simply is NO good time to have a baby. Putting it off only makes the challenges greater. Having babies after 35 increases medical risk and is, lets face it, exhausting. It is also trying on a marriage and a career."


*headdesk headdesk headdesk headdesk!*


here it is, 2009, and some people refuse to grasp this very simple concept: not every woman is foaming at the mouth at the idea of being someone's mother. and the false belief that a woman who isn't worked up about the notion is lying to herself is insulting and boneheaded.

no really: some chicks couldn't possible care any less than they do about having children. so please.

and how antiquated is the advice of "if you find a good man, girls, you better latch on and never let go because there might be plenty of fish in the sea....but most of them are floating by dead"?

another newsflash! not everyone is 1) HETEROSEXUAL and 2) INTERESTED IN GETTING MARRIED!

and also? Mika? having a baby at any age is exhausting, i don't care if you're 15, 25, or 35. you still get your world jerked around when you have to function under extreme sleep deprivation. i didn't burst into tears at the social security office while trying to get a rush job on my kids' cards because i was 35...i did it because i was delirious with exhaustion. don't even go there!

she managed to be insulting, patronizing, ageist, out of touch, and hetero-privileged in one neat little maddening blog post. in a way, isn't that too a victory?

Mika and Huffington Post could have completely missed me with this. but there is one idea that has definitely crystalized for me. Between Joe's smarmy frat-boy smirk, Pat Buchanan playing the role of everyone's favorite insane racist uncle, and Mika's Donna Reed outlook on what REALLY matters to working "girls," i need to just keep watching the Today show Blue's Clues (keeping it real).

no, i'm not the police captain from Law & Order!

this story actually rated a double take/eyeroll/sigh from your's truly. how did he NOT know who he was on the panel with?


From Crooks and Liars:


During some of the media's endless coverage of the Fort Hood shootings today, Larry King brought in former POW Shoshana Johnson, Dr. Phil McGraw and former JAG officer Tom Kenniff to speculate about what the mindset of the accused attacker Nidal Malik Hasan may have been. When Kenniff called some of CNN's previous coverage on the topic "psycho-babble", tried to say that a ranking officer could not be suffering from PTSD and asserted that Hasan's motivations looked more like an act of terrorism because he has a Muslim name, Shoshana Johnson and Phil McGraw both rightfully called him out for it.

When Kenniff while attempting to counter McGraw and Johnson asked Johnson if she had ever been to Iraq, she had to remind him that she was a POW:

KENNIF: I spent a year in Iraq, ma'am. Have you ever been to Iraq?
JOHNSON: I'm a POW. I got shot.

Kenniff was obviously unaware that Johnson was in fact the first female African American POW in U.S. history.


Seriously, read the story, transcript and all.

Quick Riddle: The 2002 Remix

Q: what's scarier than a lunatic with two blazing guns on a military base?

A: A Jordanian Muslim lunatic with a funny sounding name in traditional garb going to a convenience store that happens to have a mosque nearby to buy coffee in the morning....apparently.



there are so many what the fuck-inducing moments in this video is makes my head spin.

i thought it was bad enough that last evening when Lou Dobbs kept reassuring his audience that the shooter is in fact American. American BORN, even.....of Jordanian descent.

it seems to me that since his citizenship can't be denounced*, now the man's religion and his clothing are under scrutiny.

but how random is it that the reporter says he drove to the store in a car with a Virginia license? erm...he's from Virginia!

and stating he may have had a conflict, due to his Muslim faith, with shooting and killing other Muslims in war kinda implies that NO ONE ELSE WHO WAS SHOT was Muslim. now is that a fact? i don't know. and i bet the reporter doesn't know either.

there was so much speculating and pointless scrutiny going on, for a second i though perhaps i was watching TMZ!

it goes without saying that i'm not trying to defend this dude's actions. i'm just noting that there surely wasn't this much scrutiny when Tim McVeigh blew up that federal building and killed those people, right? did anyone reassure us he was American-born, of ___________ descent?

oh, right. no one had to tell us HE was American.

and now instead of focusing on the fact that a horrible tragedy has struck the victims, their families and the family of the shooter....all of us, American....we have CNN showing us surveilance footage of the shooter buying coffee at 6:00 am.

listen it's not 2002, you don't have to try to scare us by throwing out hints that the dude is a terrorist sympathizer motivated by anti-American sentiment. 8 years later, i can recognize the buzz words from a mile away.

just tell us the news.

An American soldier coldly murdered 13 people and injured 32 on a military base in TX.

we should be comforting one another, not taking this as yet another chance to throw suspicion on the Muslim faith.

why won't racism let Americans be great?

*at least i don't think it can be denounced but can someone check to see if Orly Taitz has filed a lawsuit demanding to see his birth certificate yet?

tried and tried and tried to tell ya.

this is a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. in black face. and body. i don't even have to do any research to asSURE you, she didn't mean it in an offensive way, is mortified that anyone would be offended, and sincerely apologizes to all those hypersensitive enough to catch a chip offended by her innocent actions. 

SHE JUST WANTED TO BE LIL' WAYNE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT!!!!!