Randomness, Vol 13

Just a short one. Been busy lately overseeing my white blood cells do battle with an invading cold army.

Well, 'multi-platimum' (I think we're taking his word on that) singer/songwriter Ray J is back for another season of "For the Love of Ray J." The beginning of this season shows him flying in a Gulfstream, landing on the tarmac to get into an expensive Italian sports car that eventually pulls up at an opulent mansion. The scene is interspersed with Ray J explaining that with his hectic schedule, it's hard to find love. Couple of things: a) How sad do you think he's going to be when vh1 takes the car, mansion and use of the jet back? b) You have such a busy schedule but yet you have time to film 12 episodes of a reality dating show!?!? c) How many more fake "For the Love of..." type shows do we need, for the love of Christ?!?! This must be catering to an entirely different demographic than the one I hang with.

And I thought the Miss California story couldn't get any more effed up. Read this web address, it pretty much sums this whole story up (do read it, though.) - http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/05/2009-11-05_carrie_prejean_sex_tape_forced_exmiss_californias_lawsuit_settlement_report_.html

It's almost a decade later, do we still need to be on guard about that Y2K thing?

At the height of its popularity back in 2002, "That 70s Show" spawned a little known spinoff called "That 80s Show." It was just a classic example of having one concept that is good and popular and trying to take it one step too far. On a related note, Activision just recently came out with DJ Hero and Band Hero.

Shouldn't a lawsuit seeking over $1 trillion in damages just be automatically thrown out on grounds of ridiculousness?

Hey, Pink? If your attitude is such that most of your songs are about how men are a bunch of immature D Bags, should you really be surprised when you have relationship problems? I don't want to point fingers here, but...

I don't know what this Christmas Carol story is all about, but if it's got Jim Carrey in it, it's got to be great. When have you steered me wrong (Eternal Sunshine, Lemony Snicket's, The Truman Show, The Number 23 and Fun with Dick and Jane excluded.)

I don't think I heard one Jon & Kate story this week. Glorious.

Bryan Fischer, the director of Issues Analysis (what an outstanding ambiguous title) for the American Family Association has a simple solution for stopping violence like what happened in Ft Hood, TX. The alleged shooter was Muslim so, very simply, kick all Muslims out of the military. At least until Muslims, quote, "invent a jihadi-detector that works every time it's used." Yeah, how about nobody starts work on a "jihadi-detector" until we figure out why our counter-terrorism officials may have intercepted communications between the shooter and a radical Muslim spiritual leader and didn't do anything about it? It's not like this guy was in the general population, you mean to tell me someone from the CIA couldn't have contacted his C.O. to arrange an interview to discuss his future in the military? So yes, Brian Fischer, it may end up that the fact that this soldier was Muslim was the biggest reason for this rampage. I am actually more appalled if the true is there may have been hints of this before it happened that were ignored. A main justification for this proposed ban are that "Christianity is a religion of peace... Islam is a religion of war and violence..." So, the assholes that bomb and shoot up abortion clinic doctors... were they just out sick on that "religion of peace" day? But maybe your plan isn't ambitious enough. Why limit it to Muslims in the military? Let's just bring back concentration camps like we had in W.W.II! That wasn't a black eye in American history that I'm gonna love to explain to my kids someday. You say the military is "about being ready to break things and kill people so that Americans can sleep securely in their beds at night." Well, you obviously don't sleep very securely with people around who follow the Muslim religion... oh, I see where this is headed...

Seriously though, just a terrible terrible thing that went down last week.

I'm finished,
Nate