Okay, making a YouTube video that happens to be a bit harsh does not mean St. Miley is going to shave her head bald or turn gay (even though Katy Perry would love it). Why are people so shocked that these girls act like teenagers? Teenagers are mean as fuck! In this technology age, if someone steals your boyfriend, you are going to make fun of them on YouTube. Look at the so called “YouTube wife”. The Internet is a new forum for bitching. Look. I’m doing it right now. Miley Cyrus is not America’s Sweetheart, people! She is a teenager. Even if she’s famous, she’s still a teenager. I’ll bet she wanted to take those sexy Vanity Fair pictures. I bet when Papa Cyrus left, she was like, “Quick, take pictures of me half naked! Aren’t I hot?” Point is, TV is wholesome family fun. Real life is not. It’s the best of both worlds.

“a fraud, a racket. … I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. … What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ’Don’t act like a moron. … Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’

Protesters  rallied outside the offices of Savage’s station, demanding his immediate termination. Of course I 100% DO NOT agree with what this idiot has to say… but so what? Last I checked, we have this little thing called the Constitution, and in that little thing, we have a littler thing called the First Amendment.That entitles all people to freedom of speech, right? Okay, as long as we’re clear. People are allowed to say whatever they want, save for shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theatre. Same thing with Don Imus. So he calls a basketball team a bunch of “nappy-headed hoes”. He gets fired for THAT? They’re called “shock jocks” for a reason. They’re supposed to make loud, brash statements about things. They’re SUPPOSED to have an opinion, even if it’s not popular. People are trying so hard to be politically correct that they’re afraid to have an opinion. Our ancestors died for our rights. It’s hard to swallow that the American Revolution was fought so some old fart can call autism fake or degrade women, but that’s exactly it. We need to stop firing people for speaking their mind! Politicians, stop apologizing for your comments. It’s like that famous old quote, “I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

They were wrong.

Little did they know when they woke up the next morning, the right to marriage they had obtained just a few months before had been snatched away from them from a ballot initiative called Proposition  8. Equal marriage was gone. With this battle lost, they turned their attention to a more solvable issue: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which prevents gays from serving in the military. They were soon reassured when Obama took the mike and told them that DADT was on its way to becoming a thing of the past and he was the one who was going to end it.

Yeah… okay. They should have been tipped off by the fact that Obama did not say WHEN this was going to happen. Meanwhile, gays and lesbians are being “dishonorably discharged” from the U.S. military in droves and the President is not doing a damn thing about it. He acknowledged his slow pace at a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) gala but said:

He would view “these years as a time when we put a stop to discrimination against gays and lesbians.”

Whether that will happen during this term of a future term remains to be seen.

Those on the front lines are baffled as to why Obama won this award, being in the thick of the killing and chaos. In an L.A. Times article titled “Obama’s Nobel Puzzles Pakistanis Living Close to War”, Nadeem Umtaz, a salesman at a women’s clothing store at the Jinnah Super Market in Islamabad said:

If the category is peace, he doesn’t deserve the peace prize. The situation keeps getting worse in Pakistan and Afghanistan. I think he got the prize because he’s a powerful man, that’s all.

Republicans are also bringing up the apparent “love” the international community has for Obama and the fact that the rest of the world hates Bush so much that they’d welcome any replacement. Marc Thiessen, former speechwriter for George W. Bush had this to say:

We’re laughing about it. It just shows how the international left is so in love with this guy, and for no apparent reason except that he’s not George Bush.

There’s literally nothing that he has done to earn the award. There’s no accord of any kind — no treaty. He has literally been in office for nine months and accomplished nothing in terms of peace. He hasn’t even withdrawn from Iraq.

Still, the fact that there is now a lot of pressure on Obama to live up to this award is often shoved to the side in favor of criticism. If he does not withdraw from Iraq, his opponents will point at it and assert that he never deserved it in the first place. Obama himself said the award is:

A call to all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. This award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity.

In his 1895 will, inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel directed that the prize go to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.” Hopefully this will describe our President by 2012.

But to be completely frank, we don’t know yet and we won’t know until the test results have been revealed in November. Still though, if Semenya is a hermaphrodite, there should be a running category established for those of that persuasion. Either this, or assimilate such individuals into the male and female categories based on their levels of estrogen or testosterone. I do not appreciate how Semenya has been exploited by the media as they state her possible condition as fact. This is a perfect case of the scandal-hungry media scrambling around for a juicy story and crucifying a young girl when they don’t even know all the facts.

What? Michael Jackson? In the news? A few months ago that would have been unsuprising. There’s just one problem: Michael Jackson has been dead since June 25th.

The man has been dead for a month and he’s still top news. Farrah Fawcett of the “Charlie’s Angels” fame died on the same day and I don’t see her name on the “In the News” list but then again, she was only battling cancer. She was buried relatively quickly after she died. There was no mystery, no murder conspiracy theories behind her death so, yeah, we don’t care. Jackson’s getting more press coverage than Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, who died  two months after Jackson did.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Jackson was one of the most talented and exciting entertainers of the 20th century, but that was over for a while. Jackson belonged to America, being a citizen, but we have been disenchanted with him for a long time. It was the Europeans who stayed with him before the bitter end and as a present, he was going to begin his comeback tour (an attempt to add money to his dwindling estate, which you can read more about here) in London. Now that he’s gone, the American media is foaming at the mouth to get any story they can, glorifying him and appeasing those who think Jackson’s birthday should be a holiday. Don’t  believe there are people that want this? Go to Petition Spot  and see for yourself.

What’s more, it feels like his family is dragging out his story to add to the drama. It took forever to autopsy him, forever to hold his funeral, and forever to bury him. It’s like they thought keeping him out of the ground would somehow bring him back to life. And it didn’t help that Joe Jackson went to the BET Awards to plug his own record company. The blogger hortense on Jezebel.com summed my feelings up pretty well in her blog:

Jackson’s answers were strange right off the bat: [CNN's Don] Lemon asks him how he’s doing, and Jackson responds, “great, I’m doing pretty good,” which seems like a peculiar thing to say after one has just lost one’s son. He then switches gears and says, “It has been really tough. Remember, we just lost the biggest star in the world.” Which also struck me as strange, as it seemed like a fairly detached way of phrasing things.

What a jerk.

Anyway, it seems as though this media nightmare will continue, what with Jackson’s death certificate having just been amended, ruling his death as a homicide and listing his cause of death as “injection by another”. Read about the madness in the U.K.’s Guardian. Who knows, maybe now that he’s more loved and getting more attention than he did in his last few years of life, Jackson will find some way to rise from the grave à la Thriller and get to enjoy the loss his “Wacko Jacko” moniker.