Random Musings

Have you seen the previews for that new ABC show? 
I think it's called Not Without My Son, maybe. Or Where's Waldo. Why Is Ashley Judd's Face So Wack?
Missing! That's it.
And it does star Ashley Judd as a mother looking for her kidnapped, runway, missing, son. And seems to be based on every single movie she's ever made. Lots of running and shouting and close-ups of her pores.
Looks good.
I kid.


At Boston's Northeastern University, it's No chicken, er, No Chick-fil-A, for you!!

The anti-LGBT restaurant chain will not be making its way to Northeastern’s Curry Student Center after the University’s Student Government Association [SGA]voted 31 to five against allowing the homophobic group a spot on campus.
Hundreds of students signed an online petition last week against the chain after learning that Chick-fil-A has donated nearly $2 million to anti-gay groups in 2009, and more than $1 million between 2003 and 2008. 
SGA Executive Vice President Will Pett said the “administration wanted the Senate to pass a resolution before spring break so the issue could be resolved immediately.” He brought it up as “emergency business”--which required two-thirds majority to pass--and the senate voted not to bring hate to the campus. Other proposed food vendors--Sweet Tomatoes Neapolitan Pizza, Kigo Kitchen and UBurger--are seen as better alternatives to Chick-fil-A. 
And not as homophobic.


Oh.My.Heart.

Though they've been in the public eye since they were 6 months old, now, at age 25, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have had their fill of the spotlight. They announced in Elle UK's April issue that they are quitting acting.
Ashley says, with a straight face, hidden behind giant sunglasses and Troll Doll hair, "I don't have to be a pretty face. I've done that, but now it's important and liberating to be on the other side of the lens."
Of course, she hasn't appeared onscreen since the last Olsen's movie, New York Minute, flopped like Mitt Romney back in '04.
While Mary-Kate stuck with the acting thing a bit longer--she guest starred on Weeds in 2007 and played a teeny role in the critically panned 2011 film Beastly--she also says, "[It] just felt right to move away [from the spotlight]."
Like they had a choice.
Seriously.


Okay, so I was away last week and didn't weigh in on the Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke Slut Mess.
First amendment. He has the right to say that.
Bad taste? Oh, indeed. 
Seriously stupid? Always.
Cost him something? Positively.
While he is allowed to say what he wants--we all are--his little slut and prostitute mess has cost him 140 advertisers, who defected his show after his idiotic, albeit free, statements. 
Looks like sometimes even Free Speech costs.


TWEET Fool.
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association took up with Rush via this Tweet:

Funny, eh, that he is basically saying it's no big deal to call a woman a slut, then he censors his own usage of the word.
Hypocrite say what?

Of course, we also heard from wacknut, conservative actress Patricia Heaton during the whole Sandra Fluke mess. She decided to join Rush Limbaugh--which says volumes about her politics and her brain function--and attacked the Georgetown Law student.
Heaton Tweeted:

• "Hey G-Town Gal: Plz let us also pay for your Starbucks, movie theater tickets and your favorite hot wings combo deal at KFC! Anything else?"
• "Hey G-Town Gal: If your parents have to pay for your birth control, maybe they should get a say in who you sleep with!" Instant birth control!"
• "If every Tweaton sent Georgetown Gal one condom, her parents would have to cancel basic cable, & she would never reproduce -- sound good?"
• "Hey GTown Gal: How about only having sex on Wednesday? (Hump day!)."
• "Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks—saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!"

Her moronic, nonsensical, and basically untrue, and definitely rude, Tweets cause many fans to rise up against Heaton, and forced her to, temporarily, shut down her Twitter account.
After feeling the backlash,Heaton issued her own apology:

• "re @SandraFluke Mea culpa Sandra! Wasn't being respectful 2 u re my tweets as I hope people wd b w/me. Don't like you being dissed -so sorry."
• "I apologized to Ms Fluke last week. I may not agree with her views but I didn’t treat her with respect and I'm sorry. I was wrong. Mea Culpa."

While Fluke dismissed Limbaugh's apology as insincere, she has not commented on Heaton's.

And speaking of Free Speech.
Kirk Cameron is a homophobe.
We all heard his idiotic comments on Piers Morgan, where he called us all sorts of names and said if his children told him they were gay he'd suggest celibacy.
Too bad no one suggested that to Kirk Cameron before he started reproducing.
Of course, then Cameron, feeling the heat of his stupid, yet free, speech, began whining about people being mean to him and calling him names and saying bad stuff.
Pot.Kettle.Black.
Free Speech works both ways, Kirk. You can say whatever you want about the gay community, couching in your religious leanings, or, as some suggest, your own self-loathing closeted homosexuality.
And I can say what I want, too.
Free Speech is a two-way street you bigot.
Deal.


TWEET Funny.

Last week we heard the news that people in Ireland approve of same-sex marriage by a whopping 73%. Not all people are happy with it, nor do all people understand what marriage is, as evidenced by this response to that post:

jp has left a new comment on your post The Luck Of The Irish:

Doesn't marriage involve a church and a blessing by God? If so then it is ludicrous for gay people to want to be married in the house of the deity that states quite clearly they will burn in Hell.If a gay couple want to pledge some kind of allegiance in a civil ceremony then why not but let's not get hypocritical about it.

First off, jp, marriage does not necessarily involve a church. People are married in their homes, in their yards, on the beach in a barn, under a bridge, or, in a church, if they so desire,
Secondly, marriage does not necessarily require blessing by god, or even not-god. There have been heterosexual civil marriages for eons, which did not take place in a church, or require the g-o-d to be legal. 
In fact, jp, being married in a church, with the blessing of a god, any god, doesn't make anyone legally married. That is only accomplished once the government-issued marriage license is signed, sealed, and delivered.
Thirdly, why is it hypocritical for gay couple to choose to have a church wedding and a blessing by god? There are a great deal of Christians who are gay and would like that right. And there are a great many churches happy to oblige those couples. 
Not every church-goer thinks gay folks are gonna burn in hell, any more than they think people who eat shellfish will burn for eternity. Picking and choosing sections of the Bible to feed your own intolerance, bigotry, or ignorance should also be worthy of a trip to the hot place, no?
Now, if a church decides it will not host, perform, sanction, attend, a same-sex marriage, that's okay, too.
Not hypocritical at all, jp.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told a crowd in Gulfport, Mississippi last week that he doesn't like the new ABC show, GCB, short for Good Christian Bitches.
"Here's to show you the biases of the elite media, look at the new show that's on that has the word 'Christian' in it and I want you to take the exact name, drop out Christian and put in Muslim. And ask yourself, is there any network that would have dared to run a show like that and you know the answer is not a one because anti-Christian bigotry is just fine in the entertainment industry but they have to be very protective of Islam."
Um, Newt, two things...well, maybe three:
First off, shut the fuck up you serial adulterer. You are the last person who should be a Christian spokesperson.
Cheat once, I'll give you that you made a mistake.
Cheat twice, and you're a serial mistress fucker.
Thing Two: Christian is a word that encompasses many different beliefs, from Catholic to Methodist to Protestant to Baptists, and beyond. Muslim is a much smaller group. 
To attack, or, as I see it, satirize, Christians is kinda funny, but to attack, or satirize Muslims, which, as I said, is a much smaller, less encompassing group, does seem a bit hateful. Not to mention that many people in your own party, and'some of your own partys paid spokeshogs, have consistently blasted the Muslim community since 9/11.
So, again, shut the fuck up.
Oh, yeah, and Three:
It's satire.

♫♫ The Love Boat...soon will be making another run ♪♫
To.The.Scrap.Heap.
Yup, according to Italy's La Repubblica, after languishing at a dock in Genoa, Italy for more than a year, the ship that played the role of the Love Boat is heading to the scrapyard to be broken up and sold for scrap metal.

Built in 1971 for $25 million for Flagship Cruises as the Sea Venture, the ship was originally built for New York to Bermuda cruise service,and sailed between Bermuda and U.S. ports for three years, before it was sold to Princess Cruises in 1974, and renamed “Pacific Princess”.  

The 600-passenger ship, tiny by today's standards, gained fame and recognition as the scene for ABC's "The Love Boat", which aired from 1977 to 1986.  The ship continued to sail for Princess Cruises until 2003. After changing hands a couple times, the ship last sailed for Spanish-based Quail Cruises.

Man, it's kinda like the Jennifer Lopez of cruise ships, being bandied about like that.

And now, it's just junk.

Again, kinda like Lopez.