Friday's Random Thoughts

Homo Matrimony in Cali!

Is that Rachel Maddow's Mom on the right?

The California State Supreme Court ruled that "same sex marriage" is legal under California law. So natch all of the queers, fairies, sodomites, carpet munchers, and assorted panty waists are in a big dither over china patterns, invitation lists, and flower arrangements. Like they weren't already. I haven't seen much political reaction yet, except that Governor Arnold is supporting the court. And who's going to fuck with him? Figuratively, I mean.

Here we see two Rainbow Warriors celebrate by singing a duet of You Light Up My Life.

Log Cabin Republicans, indeed.

Hillary Still Pretends She Can Win


But the rest of the Dems have decided to be nice to her about it, for various reasons. Not the least of which is that she is one vindictive bitch, who will be around for a while. Also, she might make a great attack dog veep candidate for Obama in the general election. Would Obama picking Hillary for veep really be "unprincipled" as BMCC says? Or would it fall in line with his promise to "unify" us? If he doesn't pick her, it may be viewed as an unwillingness or inability to unify the Democratic Party. The Republicans will pounce on that pretty quickly as evidence that Barack is just another Jimmy Carter. I'll go for whatever it takes to win and end the war.


The Economy Sucks, Kind Of


It really could be a lot worse, though. I'm not that old and I can remember times when it was. So, it's too early to panic, and it's good to see Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson making the moves we need to keep things from going down the drain. We are lucky to have these two on our side, considering the complete lack of any economic leadership from our President.


Worldview Heroes:

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson

They really do look like opposite personality types, don't they?



TV Land Observations


Speaking of the economy, just about the only tv show that I can find some economic perspective on these days is Political Capital with Al Hunt on Bloomberg TV. The news talk shows are all about politics these days. And most of the business shows are more about market activity and the deals of the day. If you're interested in some insight into the Mortgage Crisis & Gas Tax Holiday from Political Capital - click here: www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/v3423vj2HcNQ.asf

Bloomberg News' Al Hunt

On the lighter side of the boob tube, we've seen dramatic season climaxes for The Bachelor and America's Next Top Model. The Bachelor this season, Matt, was British, and handsome, which seemed to be the extent of his qualifications. He picked . . . Shayne Lamas, the daughter of Lorenzo Lamas, pictured here:

Can you imagine if your Dad looked like this?

Showing that this apple didn't fall far from the tree, bride to be Shayne celebrated by immediately posing for Girls Gone Wild Magazine. I didn't even know that Girls Gone Wild had a magazine! It's not in my supermarket. Tackiness aside, she does have her charms.

Blushing Bride Shayne Lamas

America's Next Top Model picked it's first "Plus Size Model" as the winner this season. So, props to Whitney Thompson and all of the curvy girls out there who are getting a little respect for a change.

Whitney Thompson

Blog Notes

In case you hadn't noticed, I write this blog on Google's Blogger. It's pretty cool that I can put up a blog for free, and I appreciate it. But the formatting on this thing is a real pain. Anyone have any suggestions, please feel free to comment.

Have a great weekend.

Post Script

After some mixed feedback on my Joe Francis post, a little clarification.

First, I think kids/young adults should enjoy that time of their lives to have fun, get drunk with their friends, skinny dip, hook up together, etc., before moving onto adult responsibilities. You only live once and God gave us a capacity for joy for a reason. So use it.

But there are always creepy individuals that we need to watch out for. They'll turn carefree fun into something dirty or humiliating. Joe Francis and his ilk remind me of a verse from an old Tom Petty/Mike Campbell song that Petty sang with Stevie Nicks.

There's people running 'round loose in the world
Ain't got nothing better to do
Than make a meal of some bright eyed kid
You need someone looking after you

That "someone" should be us grownups. I'm just sayin'.

Joe Francis cries as he goes to jail

Joe Francis is the guy who started and owns the "Girls Gone Wild" business. He's off to jail. He cried in court. Boo-hoo. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

From what I've seen, Joe seems little more than a typical 20-something doofus who can't get a real girlfriend, and gets overexcited at the prospect of seeing a woman topless. But he is more than that. For one thing, he's 30-something. For another, he's a very successful porn entrepreneur who has figured out how to get his chicks for free. Apparently he gets very young women to appear in his videos for little more than a hat or T-shirt.

Then Joe sells the videos on tv. He has made millions. If you ever watch cable tv after 11:00 pm, you can't miss Joe's ubiquitious infomercials.

Joe and his gang go out and solicit young women on the street or at bars. These are not girls who have made a decision to seek out the chance to publicly appear nude or have lesbian sex for the camera. It's an impulse buy. Usually they are drunk. A lot of these young women are under 21 so this fact comes into play. The girls lift their tops, or shed all their clothes, or make out with each other, or hop into bed together.

There's something that smells evil about this particular business plan, and I don't like it.

What seems evil to me about it is this picture of an older adult tempting young people into degrading themselves. Here these young women, 18 or 19 years old, (younger in the Florida case) are induced into exposing themselves and more by the lure of being the center of attention, validation of their attractiveness, the promise of a little bit of fame, and the idea that getting a little crazy is what young people are supposed to do.

Of course it's all a bunch of bullshit. It's embarrassing to see these girls acting like airheaded bimbos yelling "Whoooo!" while they lift their tops. I wonder how that goes over at job interview time. Or at the family holiday dinner. Just wait until their 10th class reunion.

So these young women end up on videos being purchased by losers who sit around the tv set and masturbate to the images of these "girls gone wild."

See how cool it all is? Party! Whooooo!

But what is really wrong about it is the prospect of Joe Francis and his gang walking around the streets looking for young, gullible women to approach. It seems so predatory. Looking for youthful innocence to corrupt.

I know these girls are "women." But I think of them as our youth. Our American youth. And this is how we treat them. It's just bad.

Now the feds are onto Joe for tax fraud. Now that's entertainment!