By The Way

Wow. That was anticlimatic.

'Shiloh Pitt' sounds like a mash-up of 'Pile of Shit'.


My teen years were not that long ago, but kids these days make me feel really old and pathetic:

A digital video recording of two Charlotte Amalie High School students performing a sex act in a classroom, with classmates present, is circulating among students and others using cell phones to transmit and receive the video.The father of a CAHS student contacted The Daily News after his daughter received the 36-second video on her cell phone and told him about it. The father told The Daily News that another student used a cell phone to record the sophomore boy and junior girl openly engaged in sexual activity last week.The video, which is called "cahs porn" and was shot from several angles, shows the girl straddling the boy and holding her spread legs up in the air. The boy is seated at a desk with his back to the front of the classroom. The video shows the actions of the two students and picks up background sounds - including what sounds like an adult's voice. According to reports to The Daily News, that voice belongs to the teacher of the class....

Because the students on the video are minors engaged in a sex act, the video is child pornography. Federal statutes outlawing such material define child pornography as any material that visually depicts sexual conduct by children.

Kids, back in the day, those who wanted to have sex had the decency to either do it in their cars, before or after school, or in the woods, like normal teenagers. Am I just showing my age or is what I'm reading really crass?

It's My Life

Love. Angel. Music. BABY!

Congrats to Gwen and Gavin!

P.S. PLEASE don't name it Nevaeh.

Soul to Squeeze

So, Harper says the media is biased and since they obviously aren't ready for his jelly, he's going to avoid them as much as possible.

I find this interesting, and platitudes aside, I think Harper is about 60% correct.

First, Harper got kick-ass coverage during the election. He also got great coverage over his budget, and his trip to Afghanistan. And the coverage of the Liberal leadership race has been a wash, because really, no one gives a shit.

What bugs me, however, is every time Harper does something 'Bush-like', no one points out that this was the common practice in the first place, or that this was done by a predecessor. When the gag order made headlines, only Chantal Hebert actually pointed out that this was same old same old for a new government. When the flag issue came up for fallen soldiers, only a few vets dared to write the 'letters' or 'comments' section to point out that this was the common practice dating back to WWII, and that Chretien had tinkered with the norm. Or the whaaa-whaaa over asking parliamentary press gallery members to sign up in advance to ask questions when, ah, ya, I'll leave that obvious-ness to Paul Wells.
My current fav is the frenzy over Kyoto and how we're all headed the American route when-ahem- the US have decreased their greenhouse gases while we as signatories have not.

I'm not suggesting that everything above is a good thing, or that I agree with it, but if there is a precendent, it should be mentioned.

~B

Like It or Not

Sometimes I think Andrew Sullivan is a total famewhore. Other days I think he's brilliant. This is one of those days:

A reader asks a good question: I was just wondering what your thoughts were about the now-failing Rove strategy. The guy's supposed to be a genius, but if he were so smart wouldn't he have foreseen that embracing divisivess and extremism would come back to bite him and his party in the ass?For that matter, what about the intelligence (or lack thereof) involved in the prosecution of the war and its aftermath? If I had wanted to assure a "permanent Republican majority" I would have done everything possible to assure that the war was a complete and unquestionable success. But clearly they planned it on the cheap and with lack of forethought.Is this just stupidity? Hubris? Once again, if Rove was such a genius, wouldn't he have done his part to make sure that the President and his policies were as certain as possible of success? Imagine, if you will, what a lock on power the GOP would now have if the war had been done right.


My money is on stupid. The right has long sought to portray Karl Rove as a genius; and the paranoid left has been only too happy to go along. My own view is that he's always been a dreadful political strategist. We don't have to wait for a GOP bloodbath this fall to see it. We had a president after 9/11 who could have asked anything of the American public and been supported. He chose a policy of brutal partisan division in war-time, and as commander-in-chief with a strong economy, he turned a 50 percent victory into ... 51 percent. If he'd risen above petty partisanship, asked for real sacrifice, listened to the military leadership on the war, and included Democrats in a war-cabinet, he could have won in a landslide.

The domestic policy record is also terrible. By allowing the staggering splurge of spending, especially on the Medicare entitlement, Rove has destroyed the Republicans' advantage on fiscal issues for a generation. By harnessing the GOP to religious fundamentalism, he has all but lost the center and independents; and by relying exclusively on that base, he is also alienating Hispanics on the immigration issue. His decision to ignore Iraq and go for an incoherent social security reform last year was another massive miscalculation. Yes, he can whip up hysteria against already-disliked minorities for short-term gain. But anyone with no scruples or conscience can do that. As for communicating the * message: Rove's tenure has been marked by some of the worst p.r. I've yet seen from a White House. So, yeah. Rove is a terrible political guru. To sell your soul - and your party's soul - for a permanent majority is one thing. To sell it for 51 percent is just pathetic.

Universally Speaking

Nick Lachey debuts #2 on the Billboard charts, with an effort that beats his ex-wife first week total sales. WORK IT, NICK!. RHCP, OF COURSE, were numero uno. Jessica, and RHCP haters, can suck my kiss!
Nick's bro, Drew, of Dancing with the Stars fame, is a new papa.

Agricultural lobbyist and McDonald's are rallying against the movie version of 'Fast Food Nation'.

Britney almost drops her kid (see photo sequence here). Now the Freakonomics guys are commenting. And she's having ANOTHER one?!

Ai mami! According to In Touch, J.Lo confirms she's with child.

The fabulous Ian McKellan is going to hell for this!

Brandon Davis has some fascinating insights on Lohan's cooter. How does he know this?

Seriously, ABC, this Bachelor nonsense has got to STOP.

Ashely Olsen has a new man and he's, um, hairy.

Throughout high school and University, I worked several retail/waitressing jobs. The stories I could contribute to this website...

Now I ain't saying she's a gold digger...

I used to think Pete Doherty was a functioning junkie, now I realise he's unhygenic and just plain GROSS:
The BABYSHAMBLES singer squirted a syringe-full of his own blood at two MTV News cameramen after injecting heroin in view of the production team.
The camera lens was splattered with Pete’s claret — leaving a horrified crew scared of infection and needing to sterilise thousands of pounds worth of filming equipment.
MTV has the vid.
EW EW EW EW EW!

Soul to Squeeze

Do we get the Home Shopping Network in Canada?! 'Cause I need to tune in to drunk Paula!

Watch the Evolution of Dance. I must be a youngin', 'cause I can only remember doing the House of Pain 'Jump Around' and onward...
Also, he missed Vogue, and nothing beats the original Thriller!

The BS gives up Kabbalah and proves she needs spell-check.

Jodie Foster gets an honourary doctorate. I am super-jealous of the grads at UPenn, 'cause I had Buzz Hargrove at my grad. ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

We now interrupt regular blogging to bring a message from Panther:

"'Sup. National Day of Slayer. Recognize.

Go Oil go!

Panther"

Carry on with your regularly scheduled Internets surfing....

Higher Ground

The Beckhams are not into contraception, they're into sex selection and tattoos!

So, how does Barbie explain the increasing waistlines of kids?

Mandy Moore in Elle: HAWT. I also pine her outfits.

If you don't know Bloc Party, get. Their. Album. NOW. It's called 'Silent Alarm' and it amazing!

Dear Papa Simpson: Dude, you have Jessica all to yourself now. Cut the umbilical cord already!

I don't consider myself a prude, but I do think D-Listers should, um, cover up.

Guess who woke me up to tell me the Oilers won game 5? GOOD TIMES.

Devil's Haircut

Be prepared for an onslaught of World Cup hotties, starting with Christiano Rolaldo. "I wait for see" AWWWW!

Panther: Oh NO
Blogette: YAY!

In case you're confused about the David Spade-Heather Locklear-Denise Richards-Charlie Sheen-Richie Sambora mess, click on David Spade to get a hilarious explanation.

LiLo at her 'Just My Luck' premier. She looks haggard. Get some sleep!

Asslee Simpson gets a nose job. Jessica gets an orange wig to go with her orange tan.

Are you GAY GAY GAY? Will you be coming out shortly? If so, check out this list of rules for gay boy refugees. I agree with everything, except number four:
4. Rainbow flags, bumper stickers, and wind socks are no different than Green Bay Packers fans painting their faces green and gold: a complete embarrassment. Pride can be as ugly and warping as shame.
The grand exception is, of course, PRIDE WEEK!

Life is a Highway

It's confirmed, the BS is with sex trophy.

For someone who smokes so much weed, K-Fed is awfully virile, don't you think?

Like Eating Glass

Naomi Campbell gets rewarded for all her years of beating her staff up: a stamp.

Which Say-Leen is made out of wax?! I can't tell!

Check out the new Nelly Furtardo vid feat. Timbaland. HAWT.
Pics of the BS in Glamour. Not bad
Pics of J.Lo and Rigor Mortis on the red carpet. Are those some seriously gray roots or am I seeing things?

Asslee Simpson and Fiona Apple perform in the same music festival in Australia. ASSLEE IS SO NOT WORTHY. Free Fiona!

Prayers for the family of Contsable Atkinson.

I'm not sure how Jesus feels about plagarism, but I like the Christian NBA All-Star Jersey

Fallin'

It's Friday, y'all!

Here's a work distraction for you: Geroge Bush Screensaver.

Now, I have no idea how to convert this into a screensaver, but if he gets stuck in the bubbles, just use your mouse to guide him out.

Enjoy!

Me Against the World

The Canadian hamsters are here!

Canada's Next Top Model starts at the end of the month and I WILL SO BE WATCHING.

I'm proud to say there is a Southwestern Ontario --RESPRESENT!-- hamster with Heather from Blenheim. She's a factory worker too! GO HEATHER GO!

The prizes are pretty decent too:
Canada's Next Top Model will also walk away with a $100,000 beauty contract from Procter & Gamble. The winner will receive a modeling contract with top agency, Sutherland Models. They'll be featured in an editorial spread in Fashion Magazine.

Last, I have no idea who Tricia Helfer is.

Where's the Party?

Apologies for the lack of posts..the Parents of Panther are staying with us and I have to be on my best behaviour which requires a lot of planning and is very tiring. Gossip and snark-fests will resume shortly.

I will leave the comments open for anyone to discuss the budget, TomKat, hockey playoffs, etc.

Last, will someone please tell the Liberal Party that it's a leadership race and not a clown car?

~B