In case you missed it, Tina Fey was back on SNL with Amy Poehler playing Republican VP pick, Sarah Palin. This time around Amy Poehler had a chance to play Katie Couric. If you’ve seen the actual interview between the two women, you will certainly find this one amusing. Either way, this is priceless SNL, so check it out and let me know what you think!
One of my favorite 80’s movies, hands down, has got to be National Lampoon’s European Vacation. There is just something about the “Beer after Beer” song, the obsessing over Jack, and the forcing the children to wear berets that just cracks me up every time. Of course, pig in a poke didn’t hurt either. Pig suits are hot, aren’t they?
The thing that I loved the most in European Vacation has got to be Rusty Griswold. The standing joke I have is that my brother is that Rusty…or at least he was as a teenager. He thought he was cool, had the feathered hair and the Miami Vice no socks thing going on. He was all that and the ladies loved him. Just like Rusty thought they did him.
There is a scene in the movie where Rusty picks up a hooker in France and is partying with her. His parents catch him drunk with the girl and he uses the “When in Rome” excuse, to which his father Clark replied, “I said Rome, this is Paris, and you’re drunk!”
Every Tuesday I will be posting at least one music video that is just messed up, odd, funny, or downright amusing for one reason or another. While I could have started this off with “Do Somethin” or anything by Weird Al, I just loved the special effects in this Blondie video, so the group won the coveted slot of first f*cked up video shown.
The song is pretty good, but the rising tides and fish swimming in the window are what convince me to watch the video. If you haven’t seen it check it out and let me know what you think!
If you didn’t get a chance to see Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin last night you should check it out. While I am not a huge SNL watcher these days, I have to say Tina Fey coming back to play Palin was classic. She did an excellent job and the skit was completely hillarious!
I read something somewhere that struck me as odd the other day. It stated that a large percentage of men (far more than women) feel that Sarah Palin is not only qualified to be the vice-president, but also to lead this country.
Those are strong words.
I don’t even feel like Bush is qualified to run this country, so hearing that people think she is ready just baffles me. It got worse when my mother came home with tales from the gas station.
“Gas is nearly $4 a gallon,” she says “and an 80 year old man was pumping gas next to me and he said ‘this is why I want that woman in office. She supports energy.’”
She also supports drilling in ANWAR, the destruction of polar bears, and having Alaska secede from the United States. That’s not everything of course, but just some of her finer moments.
Could it be possible? Is it possible that many men are not thinking…well, at least not with their brains?
When I ask Palin supporters why they like her they often cannot give me a firm reason that is based on issues. Some things I do hear are:
“She’s good looking.”
“She knew she was having a Down Syndrome baby and kept it.”
“She’s a good mother”
My responses usually follow suit:
“Personally, I think she looks like a less intelligent Hitler in a dress.”
“Maybe we should nominate Bristol. I think she’s the real hero in this scenario.”
“So, she’s a woman that got pregnant out of high school and eloped (with the baby born eight months later) hoping no one would be able to do the math. She grows up to build a decent life that includes kids that follow in her footsteps by getting pregnant, but they presumably up the ante, and she handles her problems at home using shotgun weddings and the idea that she will become even busier (having less time at home) as vice-president. Oh, and while this is going on she is trying to dictate how we live, what we teach our children, and the books people read to ensure that we live the chaste life that her own family (her included) cannot seem to live themselves?”
Author: Lorilee Craker
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Publisher: Center Street
Purchase: Amazon for $10.39
When I was offered the book A is for Atticus by Lorilee Craker I had no idea who the author was. After a little digging, I learned that Craker is an entertainment writer that has authored and co-authored a number of books. Despite being an entertainment writer she has penned books on parenting and family. She even has another baby naming book under her belt, though the first had more to do with biblical names and less to do with literary influence and the world of celebrities.
Her newest book will be out in September. Sure to be a hit, especially with gossip mavens, this next book was co-authored with the infamous celebrity non-parent, Lynne Spears. This focus on the entertainment world makes it hard to take her literary chops seriously, but I entered A is for Atticus with an open mind, considering I have always had a fondness for the character paid homage to on the cover.
Unfortunately, the literary mark is not hit as hard as you might want it to be. Craker uses her extensive knowledge of celebrities to write a book about the name choices of famous celebrities (some with unique literary meaning and others not so much). The book does not focus on all of the great names of literature or even all of the ones that book lovers could think of off the top of their heads. This makes the book feel halfhearted at best.
“When I was young, my mother taught me that evil flourishes when good men do nothing. This has not been easy for us. The easy thing would have been to do nothing. But I have followed my heart, and I have spoken the truth.”
-Elissa Wall, Author of Stolen Innocence
I don’t find the time to read as much as I should, and I openly admit that I read non-fiction even less. These days, I barely have time to watch my favorite television shows, so the idea of reading a book is nearly inconceivable. However, recently there was a book that came before me that I couldn’t put down. That book was Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall.
Wall is best known for testifying in the Warren Jeffs trial. A former member of the FLDS (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), Wall was born and raised into a polygamist sect where she lived into her young adult life. Stolen Innocence is Wall’s story about being forced to marry her cousin, endure rape and incest (Alan was Elissa’s first cousin), and be torn apart from her family all because of Jeffs and a religion that Wall no longer associates with God.
Most Americans are familiar with polygamy based on what they see on HBO’s hit television show, Big Love. How much truth Big Love offers really depends on the type of polygamist you are. I believe that people can love more than one person at a time. I also believe that plural relationships can work in the right dynamic. That is not to say that I agree with plural marriages that allow 12 year old girls to marry 56 (or older) year old men.
On a personal level, we don’t give a hoot whether Sarah Palin abstained or not. From a voter’s perspective, one of the most important issues is whether or not the candidate is honest, open and virtuous. If Sarah Palin did not abstain as a teenager, why is she the authority on abstinence? It’s bad enough she’s trying to tell our nation’s children they have to abstain when she couldn’t even get her own daughter to listen to that simple message.
It’s called hypocrisy. You can do whatever you want because you’re a Christian and can be forgiven and supported for your sins. BUT, and this is a very big but, you expect something more of others. If you can’t live up to the standards you hold for others, then you are a hypocrite. It’s plain and simple logic.
We do believe that usually, a person’s private life should be just that. Unfortunately, the Republicans seem to believe that a Democrat’s private life should be dragged through the mud and exposed while Republicans aren’t held to the same standard. If it is revealed without a shadow of a doubt that Sarah Palin is a liar, shouldn’t she be held to the same standards as Bill Clinton, John Edwards, or any of the other politicians whose lies have been exposed? If she can’t handle the heat or scrutiny, why not stay out of the kitchen?
We’ve already talked about the possibility Trig is Bristol’s son, the fact that Bristol’s pregnancy doesn’t fit in with the family values Republicans typically hold and the shifty nature of Sarah Palin. Now, we look to Sarah Palin’s own pregnancy. As shady as her last “supposed” pregnancy was, so was her very first pregnancy. Track Palin, the eldest child of the Palins may have been conceived prior to his parent’s marriage. We might just have enough information to prove that.
Eric McLean has been labeled as a good guy by his lawyers. He was a devoted husband. He was the type of guy that would play “mommy” to the kids so that his wife could finish school and get her career going before him. He was tolerant enough to see his 29 year old wife flaunt her relationship with an 18 year old boy around their town. He saw them kissing and if reports are true, he saw them having sex. After all this, he apparently did not hold enough ill will to want revenge. Instead, he never did anything irrational. He just bought a shotgun that he had planned to use for his suicide.
All bets were off though when Eric came home to his wife Erin in the home with Sean Powell, her lover. McLean told the boy to leave and when he wouldn’t go, McLean called 911. That night, March 10, 2007, changed things forever. That was the night that Eric McLean became a murderer. His wife was going to leave and take their sons with her and Powell. They laughed at him. They taunted him. And when Erin got out of Powell’s car to get something, the defendants claim that Powell shared some words that probably sealed his fate.
“In two weeks, they will be calling me `Daddy.’ “
McLean got the shotgun that was supposed to be for his suicide and a shot was fired that blew part of Powell’s face off. Still the question remains, is that really the way it happened? The defense calls it an accident, but McLean had to get his gun, so I don’t know that it was as cut and dry as they want to claim. Passion is a funny motive, but it is one used a lot, especially when you’re wife doesn’t have the forethought to see how hot the fire is that she’s playing with.
I used to attend Criminal Justice school online. I always made quite the impression when the topics of criminal rehabilitation and the death penalty came up. I am of the firm belief that some people cannot be saved. If these people, whoever they are, cannot be saved then I feel it’s only fair that we do the taxpayers a favor and save them a buck. That’s right I think we need to off the guys that cannot be saved.
Currently criminals are receiving the message that no matter what they do there will be someone out there to defend them and try and save them, usually so they can go out and do it all over again. Just look at people like Casey Anderson. It seems to be more than obvious that she killed her kid, yet there are people out there that will defend her, saying things like the chloroform details are false and the decomposing body in the car was really a diaper that sat there all day. Didn’t you know? When a diaper sits there long enough it begins to sprout matter that appears to look like decomposition. If people did their homework they would know that.
Instead, I think we should have an adequate system for those that we are fully aware cannot be saved. We could fully castrate (yes, penis, too) pedophiles. Of course, I realize that this would not stop them from trying to harm little children. So, with that in mind, if we allowed them to live someone would need to cut their arms and legs off, too. Serial murderers could be set on fire and put on pay per view to help squelch the national debt. You know, things like that.
Author: Lorilee Craker
“When I was young, my mother taught me that evil flourishes when good men do nothing. This has not been easy for us. The easy thing would have been to do nothing. But I have followed my heart, and I have spoken the truth.”