A 9-year-old boy in North Carolina was reportedly bulliedby classmates when he brought a My Little Pony lunchbox to school. When school officials responded by banning the lunch box because it "encourages bullying", the story made headlines, and the boy is getting tremendous public support. So far, though, no word from the Bronies.
A South Carolina man physically attacked a fellow diner at a Taco Bell because he didn't hear the man say, "Excuse me", after he belched. How rude.
Unless Chris Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, can convince the victim in his assault case to settle out of court before his late April court date, Brown, will remain in jail, now that he has been ejected from rehab for rules violations. Imagine the level of his anger management issues after a month of jail time.
I recently watched someone spend an hour checking the Facebook pages of several relatives, looking for updates about another family member who's ill. Does anyone remember the days before Facebook, when you had to actually pick up a telephone and call somebody?
Why are Jamie Lee Curtis and Reba McEntire no longer featured on Activia yogurt commercials? Are they no longer constipated?
Speaking of truth in advertising: my friend licked her Timex, and it did keep on ticking. Take that, John Mayer.
The White House pastry chef says he resigned to live in New York with his husband, not because of allegations that Michelle Obama is banning fattening desserts in the White House. But the truth doesn't make a money making headline.
Which is more disturbing, watching people celebrate the death of anyone, even the controversial founder of the Westboro Baptist Church Fred Phelps, or hearing people attribute the concept of loving your enemies to Dr. King instead of Jesus Christ?
Actor Russell Crowe is reportedly going to great lengths to get the pope to screen his latest film, Noah. Will someone please assure him that the pontiff probably knows the plot?
And now, a word that may be meant for a specific someone: when someone tells so many lies that people can't pick a favorite even for their own amusement, that's a bad thing.
Agape' -- P
Friday, March 21, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
March 14, 2014
Justin Bieber may have been trying to appear aloof and superior during his rude behavior while being deposed in a lawsuit regarding one of his bodyguards attacking a paparazzo. However, he just ended up looking like an obnoxious, disrespectful brat. I don't remember a moment where I wished harder for Judge Judy or Judge Joe Brown to pimp slap someone.
A number of successful women, including Beyonce, and Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg are campaigning to ban the word bossy, ostensibly because of a belief that young girls will avoid reaching for leadership roles out of fear of being considered bossy. Personally, I think it'd be better to teach young girls to do their best no matter what anybody calls them, but that's just me.
A law has been drafted in New Jersey that would allow expectant fathers to be kept out of the delivery room during childbirth at the discretion of the expectant mother. I have yet to hear any men complain about this.
Portland police rescued a couple, their 7-month-old baby, and their dog, who were being held hostage by their 22-pound cat, who had a history of violent behavior. The couple plan to keep their cat (who has also scratched their baby), and are reportedly arranging for therapy for the cat. I feel the need to confirm that this is a true story, and not a skit on Saturday Night Live.
A model has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Playboy magazine and a comedian for injuries she suffered during a photo shoot in which the comedian drove a golf ball off a tee nestled between her butt cheeks. I feel the need to confirm that this is also a true story, and not one of David Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks.
Since when is "that's a personal question" not a good enough answer, but "I just want to know" a good enough reaason?
How's this for something I can't think without laughing? "Rocky: The Musical."
Imagine my disappointment when I found out today, 3/14, was "Pi" day, not "pie" day.
Have you seen the Party Popper by Beggin Strips? It's a 10 ounce container with a plunger on top for propelling the doggie treats into the air, tons of fun for your dog. Or you can save $9 and just throw them.
And now, a message that may or may not be for anyone specific: sure, you can behave with little character and seem to avoid suffering for now, but you'll have to live with yourself in the end. Is it worth it?
Agape'-- P
A number of successful women, including Beyonce, and Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg are campaigning to ban the word bossy, ostensibly because of a belief that young girls will avoid reaching for leadership roles out of fear of being considered bossy. Personally, I think it'd be better to teach young girls to do their best no matter what anybody calls them, but that's just me.
A law has been drafted in New Jersey that would allow expectant fathers to be kept out of the delivery room during childbirth at the discretion of the expectant mother. I have yet to hear any men complain about this.
Portland police rescued a couple, their 7-month-old baby, and their dog, who were being held hostage by their 22-pound cat, who had a history of violent behavior. The couple plan to keep their cat (who has also scratched their baby), and are reportedly arranging for therapy for the cat. I feel the need to confirm that this is a true story, and not a skit on Saturday Night Live.
A model has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Playboy magazine and a comedian for injuries she suffered during a photo shoot in which the comedian drove a golf ball off a tee nestled between her butt cheeks. I feel the need to confirm that this is also a true story, and not one of David Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks.
Since when is "that's a personal question" not a good enough answer, but "I just want to know" a good enough reaason?
How's this for something I can't think without laughing? "Rocky: The Musical."
Imagine my disappointment when I found out today, 3/14, was "Pi" day, not "pie" day.
Have you seen the Party Popper by Beggin Strips? It's a 10 ounce container with a plunger on top for propelling the doggie treats into the air, tons of fun for your dog. Or you can save $9 and just throw them.
And now, a message that may or may not be for anyone specific: sure, you can behave with little character and seem to avoid suffering for now, but you'll have to live with yourself in the end. Is it worth it?
Agape'-- P
Saturday, March 8, 2014
March 7, 2014
There's nothing like a reunion with loved ones to bring warmth and sunshine into a cold, gloomy day.
An 18-year-old honor student is suing her parents for her college tuition. Ironically, the daughter is calling her parents spoiled. Another attorney has filed a defamation lawsuit against a court-appointed psychologist who labelled him "wholly incapable" of caring for his 4-year-old son simply because the father wouldn't take him to McDonald's. Does anyone remember when there was some kind of honor to the legal profession?
Ellen Degeneres posted a cell phone picture of herself and a number of celebrities from the Oscars Sunday night, and the picture (which, by the way, is not technically a selfie, no matter how many people call it that) has been creditted with bringing down Twitter. But it's an interesting comment on celebrity that the highlight of the Oscars was when Ellen had pizza delivered to the audience. For the first time, I wished I'd been there.
The world's oldest living person, who turned 116 this week, credits her longevity to eating and sleeping. That does it: from now on, I'll be taking all my meals in bed. I hope all the guests to my future dinner parties don't mind.
What does it mean that accident statistics generate warnings against no-brainer dangers like texting and driving, but with all the divorces, jail sentences, and tragedies, they're still finding people willing to go on "reality" TV?
Maybe it is better to be square, if all it takes to be cool is saying things like "Allrat, allrat, allrat".
More and more men are reportedly paying plastic surgeons as much as $8500 to have hair surgically transferred from other parts of their body (such as hair and back) to their faces. But what about guys who can't grow hair on those places either? Perhaps the rest of us can save our shavings and sell them. The scary part is that I can see it happening.
When the cast list for next season's Dancing With the Stars was announced this week, did you think the same thing I did? "Dancing With the Stars is still on the air?"
The lab report that FilmOn.com CEO Alki David produced to prove that 31-year-old performer Brandon Howard is the son of the late Michael Jackson has been exposed as not only a fake, but a poorly constructed fake. Again, stupid lies are just adding insult to injury. Meanwhile, Brandon tells the press that he wants nothing from the estate of Michael Jackson. I assume all this publicity was enough.
And now, a word that may or may not be directed to someone in particular: yes, there really is such a thing as a crap weasel, and no, being called one is nota compliment.
Agape' -- P
An 18-year-old honor student is suing her parents for her college tuition. Ironically, the daughter is calling her parents spoiled. Another attorney has filed a defamation lawsuit against a court-appointed psychologist who labelled him "wholly incapable" of caring for his 4-year-old son simply because the father wouldn't take him to McDonald's. Does anyone remember when there was some kind of honor to the legal profession?
Ellen Degeneres posted a cell phone picture of herself and a number of celebrities from the Oscars Sunday night, and the picture (which, by the way, is not technically a selfie, no matter how many people call it that) has been creditted with bringing down Twitter. But it's an interesting comment on celebrity that the highlight of the Oscars was when Ellen had pizza delivered to the audience. For the first time, I wished I'd been there.
The world's oldest living person, who turned 116 this week, credits her longevity to eating and sleeping. That does it: from now on, I'll be taking all my meals in bed. I hope all the guests to my future dinner parties don't mind.
What does it mean that accident statistics generate warnings against no-brainer dangers like texting and driving, but with all the divorces, jail sentences, and tragedies, they're still finding people willing to go on "reality" TV?
Maybe it is better to be square, if all it takes to be cool is saying things like "Allrat, allrat, allrat".
More and more men are reportedly paying plastic surgeons as much as $8500 to have hair surgically transferred from other parts of their body (such as hair and back) to their faces. But what about guys who can't grow hair on those places either? Perhaps the rest of us can save our shavings and sell them. The scary part is that I can see it happening.
When the cast list for next season's Dancing With the Stars was announced this week, did you think the same thing I did? "Dancing With the Stars is still on the air?"
The lab report that FilmOn.com CEO Alki David produced to prove that 31-year-old performer Brandon Howard is the son of the late Michael Jackson has been exposed as not only a fake, but a poorly constructed fake. Again, stupid lies are just adding insult to injury. Meanwhile, Brandon tells the press that he wants nothing from the estate of Michael Jackson. I assume all this publicity was enough.
And now, a word that may or may not be directed to someone in particular: yes, there really is such a thing as a crap weasel, and no, being called one is nota compliment.
Agape' -- P
Friday, February 28, 2014
February 28, 2014
From the wish-I'd-thought-of-this department: an enterprising girl scout made headlines by selling 117 boxes of cookies in two hours by setting up her stand in front of a medical marijuana clinic in San Francisco. Since the news broke, girl scouts across the country are doing the same, forcing Girl Scouts associations to remind the public that the Girl Scout Code does not encourage sales outside adult-oriented businesses. Never mind debates on whether weed should be legal, or if it's more dangerous than alcohol (we hear enough on that controversy all the time anyway), but in my opinion, this was downright brilliant!
A dentist in Japan is facing criminal charges after reportedly escorting a female patient into a private room to massage her breasts in order to straighten her crooked teeth. I never believe in blaming the victim in a case of sexual assault. However, ladies, some of you have got to wise up.
A spelling bee contest in Missouri ended in a draw Saturday after the organizers ran out of words before either of the last two student competitors could be eliminated after 66 rounds. I'm usually pretty secure, but stories like this just make me feel like a doofus.
Remember the Dudley DooRight hat that Pharrell wore to the Grammys? He has put it up for auction on Ebay, and the bidding has exceeded the $15,000 mark. Pharrell has promised 100% of the proceeds to his charity, From One Hand to Another, which provides arts and educational resources for children. I think that, if this was his plan all along, it was brilliant!
Is it bizarre that, while I had no interest in seeing the movies Gravity or The Wolf of Wall Street , I'm really interested in Muppets Most Wanted and Peabody and Sherman?
Group selfies are being blamed for a reported increase in the spread of head lice among teenagers. Yet another result of the horrors of technology.
There is a group of Albanian women who have taken a pledge to live like, dress like, and work like men, assuming the legal rights and privileges of men, for the rest of their lives. The pledge also includes celibacy. These women are reporting that their lifestyle is a choice, and that they weren't born this way. There goes their musical support from Lady Gaga.
A 10-year-old Norwegian boy who stole his parents' car and drove it into a ditch last week, and told police that he was actually a dwarf who'd left his driver's license at home, was caught again. This time, he stole the car of a visiting relative, and had even taken his 18-month-old sister along. In my opinion, a 10-year-old car thief/kidnapper ought to be a smarter liar.
Alec Baldwin announced his plans to leave New York to get away from the publicity machine (by the way, Alec, if you want to avoid the publicity machine, do it quietly). While this is bad news for the papparazzi who make money provoking him to physically attack them, it's good news for their insurance providers.
And now, a message that may or may not be directed to anyone in particular: no, you don't have to be gay to throw an Oscar party, but no thanks, I won't be able to make it.
Agape' -- P
A dentist in Japan is facing criminal charges after reportedly escorting a female patient into a private room to massage her breasts in order to straighten her crooked teeth. I never believe in blaming the victim in a case of sexual assault. However, ladies, some of you have got to wise up.
A spelling bee contest in Missouri ended in a draw Saturday after the organizers ran out of words before either of the last two student competitors could be eliminated after 66 rounds. I'm usually pretty secure, but stories like this just make me feel like a doofus.
Remember the Dudley DooRight hat that Pharrell wore to the Grammys? He has put it up for auction on Ebay, and the bidding has exceeded the $15,000 mark. Pharrell has promised 100% of the proceeds to his charity, From One Hand to Another, which provides arts and educational resources for children. I think that, if this was his plan all along, it was brilliant!
Is it bizarre that, while I had no interest in seeing the movies Gravity or The Wolf of Wall Street , I'm really interested in Muppets Most Wanted and Peabody and Sherman?
Group selfies are being blamed for a reported increase in the spread of head lice among teenagers. Yet another result of the horrors of technology.
There is a group of Albanian women who have taken a pledge to live like, dress like, and work like men, assuming the legal rights and privileges of men, for the rest of their lives. The pledge also includes celibacy. These women are reporting that their lifestyle is a choice, and that they weren't born this way. There goes their musical support from Lady Gaga.
A 10-year-old Norwegian boy who stole his parents' car and drove it into a ditch last week, and told police that he was actually a dwarf who'd left his driver's license at home, was caught again. This time, he stole the car of a visiting relative, and had even taken his 18-month-old sister along. In my opinion, a 10-year-old car thief/kidnapper ought to be a smarter liar.
Alec Baldwin announced his plans to leave New York to get away from the publicity machine (by the way, Alec, if you want to avoid the publicity machine, do it quietly). While this is bad news for the papparazzi who make money provoking him to physically attack them, it's good news for their insurance providers.
And now, a message that may or may not be directed to anyone in particular: no, you don't have to be gay to throw an Oscar party, but no thanks, I won't be able to make it.
Agape' -- P
Friday, February 21, 2014
February 21, 2014
An elderly man on his deathbed advised his great-grandchildren: "When you look back on your life, if there were more people who treated you with kindness than there were people who didn't, that was a successful life." However, I think that the measure of that kind of success depends more on how we treat others instead of how they treated us.
It would be tragic to allow the abundance of indecency around us to prevent us from expecting people to behave decently. Indecency spreads faster when people get used to it.
A Tampa, Florida man was practicing his turkey calls while walking through a wildlife management area when he was mistakenly shot twice by a hunter. Is there such a thing as being too good at something?
Trade-based organizations are reporting that the number of clowns in this country is decreasing. I just think they're not looking in the right places; admit it, don't each of us know a few clowns?
A 23-year-old single mom says she was fired from her job at a New York McDonald's because she and two co-workers dipped into their own pockets to buy $153 worth of food for two firefighter crews after being told that the food could not be donated to the first responders, who'd been fighting two fires in the freezing temperatures. Ironically, since going viral with her story, the fired worker has been receiving several job offers. Good deeds are sometimes rewarded after they go punished.
So, which item creeps you out more: the Makeout-Practice pillow designed to make you a better kisser, or hairy stockings intended to deflect unwanted attention to your legs? My advice: save your money, find a real person to kiss, and wear pants.
A talking lizard, a quacking duck, people materializing upon hearing a song (and don't get me started on that woman, Flo)... who decided that insurance commercials were supposed to be funny? But none of them are more disturbing than the one where the two daughters hurry to their parents' home after Dad has an accident and choose that moment to suggest they purchase "final expense insurance." Creepy...
Does it bother anyone that nearly 50% of the doctors in the U.S. are reportedly consulting Wikipedia to diagnose patients? Maybe we're healthier than we've been told! Or maybe we're sicker. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
A South Carolina woman was released on a $2000 bond after one night in jail for never returning a VHS copy of the movie Monster-in-Law to the video store where she rented it in 2005. I hope she remembered that it's kind to rewind.
It would be tragic to allow the abundance of indecency around us to prevent us from expecting people to behave decently. Indecency spreads faster when people get used to it.
A Tampa, Florida man was practicing his turkey calls while walking through a wildlife management area when he was mistakenly shot twice by a hunter. Is there such a thing as being too good at something?
Trade-based organizations are reporting that the number of clowns in this country is decreasing. I just think they're not looking in the right places; admit it, don't each of us know a few clowns?
A 23-year-old single mom says she was fired from her job at a New York McDonald's because she and two co-workers dipped into their own pockets to buy $153 worth of food for two firefighter crews after being told that the food could not be donated to the first responders, who'd been fighting two fires in the freezing temperatures. Ironically, since going viral with her story, the fired worker has been receiving several job offers. Good deeds are sometimes rewarded after they go punished.
A talking lizard, a quacking duck, people materializing upon hearing a song (and don't get me started on that woman, Flo)... who decided that insurance commercials were supposed to be funny? But none of them are more disturbing than the one where the two daughters hurry to their parents' home after Dad has an accident and choose that moment to suggest they purchase "final expense insurance." Creepy...
Does it bother anyone that nearly 50% of the doctors in the U.S. are reportedly consulting Wikipedia to diagnose patients? Maybe we're healthier than we've been told! Or maybe we're sicker. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
A South Carolina woman was released on a $2000 bond after one night in jail for never returning a VHS copy of the movie Monster-in-Law to the video store where she rented it in 2005. I hope she remembered that it's kind to rewind.
And now, a message that may or may not be directed to anyone in particular: forgive your friends from laughing, and just remember next time, wine isn't served in a giraffe.
Agape' -- P
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