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Scott Brown is a despicable, contemptible, deceitful, smarmy, badmouthing, slandering, disingenuous, dishonest, self-serving, narcissistic, pathetic excuse for a human being.  If he is elected to the Senate tomorrow, it is a clear sign that there is something wrong with the American people.

Of course, the elections of 2000 and 2004 should have already told us that.  But I was thinking that the cloud of retardation which swept over the United States in 2000 had lifted, and we were living now in a more rational world.  I’m worried, though.  It’s going to be a long night.

At first I  thought he was just an empty suit.  A good looking guy, and I’m a bit surprised that the naked pose for Cosmo didn’t hurt him with the bible bangers among the tea-baggers, but who am I to make a big deal over that?

Then there was his statement that he wasn’t a teabagger and didn’t even really know what this teabagger movement was all about, even though he had spoken at a major tea party event and knowing full well that they are a huge part of his support.  A bit disingenuous, I thought, but a smart political move.  After all, the teabaggers are going to vote for him anyway, because they are determined to stop Obama from giving them affordable health care.

As for everybody else, the answer he gave was one they were reassured to hear.

But in the last couple of days, he has gone too far.  When a fan at one of his rallies shouted out that Martha Coakley should have a curling iron shoved up her butt, he paused, waiting for the crowd reaction but not disagreeing with the sentiment expressed, and then, smiling, went on with his speech.  His next sentence was “We can do this.”

During an interview on a TV show, he made a remark about Stanley Anne Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother, being only 18 when he was born.  First of all, it really is sleazy to attack somebody’s mother.  Secondly, what’s the big deal?  Is he saying that 18 is too young to have a child?  Since when?  Anyway, it gets worse.  When the announcer quickly added “and married,” he said “Well, I don’t know about that.”

Yes, you do, Scott.  You’re involved in politics, you’ve studied your opponents, you know perfectly well that his parents were married at the time of his birth.  So, you are not only a prude (but a prude who posed nude) and a slanderer, but you are a liar as well.

The thing that really bothered me: just as in the case of the Coakley comment, he was smiling all the time.

First, let me say that I like Sandra Bullock.  I liked her when she did the whole nerdgirl takes off her coke bottle glasses, lets her hair down and is transformed into a total fox thing way back in Love Potion #9, and I even enjoyed it when she did that again in Miss Congeniality, which was a piece of fluff, but my standards are not high.

I sometimes watch bad films, I eat hamburgers and donuts, I buy clothes at 2^nd hand stores.

Speed, of course, was a seriously offensive piece of garbage, but you can’t really blame Sandra Bullock or Keanu Reeves for that.  It was a piece of garbage because the producers and the director decided that they could go ahead and, even though the show was not about superheroes or anything supernatural in any way, egregiously violate the laws of physics and the movie going public would just totally accept it and love the movie anyway.  That pissed me off but what pisses me off more is that they were right.  The public are morons and deserve the constant parade of bad films that they get.

I like Meryl Streep, too.  I put her in a special class of actresses, along with Glenn Close and Reese Witherspoon who can play seriously attractive women without actually being seriously attractive women.

Cameron Diaz may actually be a pretty good actress but she doesn’t really have to be.  She’s good looking enough that men will plop down the price of a ticket just to worship at the altar of her beauty, and be grateful for the privilege.  Ditto Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe.  Goddesses more than actresses.  Sandra Bullock is bordering on this category.  Meryl Streep, not so much.

So, they did the whole lesbian kiss thing at a recent awards ceremony.  The video seems to show that Sandra (the hotter woman, the lesser actress) initiated the liplock and that Meryl was rather caught off guard and didn’t seem to enjoy it much.  A reversal of the Madonna/Britney kiss which started this whole meme.

Then, Sandra gets into the news because she’s donating a cool one million dollars to the relief effort in Haiti.  I’m all for that, whatever the reason, and I’m still a Sandra Bullock fan but, being the cynical old fart that I am I suspect there is more here than meets the eye.  Here’s what I think happened.

Sandra’s PR person:  That didn’t really go well.

Sandra:  What do you mean?  It’ll be all over the blogosphere within hours.  They’ll eat it up.

PR person:  It looked forced.

Meryl:  Damned straight it was forced.  I don’t do chicks.

Sandra:  Oh, well, my bad.  What do we do now?

PR person:  How about donating a million bucks to those poor fuckers in Haiti.  Nobody can criticize you then.

Sandra:  Sure.  Whatever.

And all’s well that ends well.

I hate seeing Bill Clinton, a man who I basically like and admire, sitting up there on a stage next to that slimy weasel of a war criminal, George W. Bush.  Even if it is to help raise money for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

During the Clinton administration, victims of disasters got prompt aid.  I was living in L.A. at the time of the Northridge quake, and I remember how amazed everyone was at how quickly the federal aid agencies acted, and how quickly I-10 was rebuilt.

During Katrina, W was nowhere to be found.  Eventually, photographers caught up with him playing air guitar in San Diego.  While people were dying.

W feels no compassion whatsoever for the dead people in Haiti.  He didn’t feel any compassion for the people of New Orleans.  When the noise grew too great and the humanitarian disaster threatened to become a political nightmare for him, he arranged photo-ops.  The first one (flying over, looking down) didn’t work out so well, so he arranged that charade in Jackson Square, reminding everyone that the city of New Orleans is very photogenic, if you aim the cameras away from the death and destruction.

Then, he began to spin away the political fallout by a steady blaming of Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco.

There’s plenty of blame to go around.  We heard it again and again.  It was slanderous.  The big difference was that Nagin and Blanco, while they may have made mistakes (those damned school busses) were on the ground, were trying, were screaming on TV every damned day begging for the Federal aid which was being withheld.

Bush just flat out didn’t give a shit (the generous assessment) or else deliberately wanted the disaster to be as great as possible (the get the poor people out of New Orleans and thus turn Louisiana red).

Now, he sits there on a stage next to Bill Clinton and pretends that he cares what happens to the people of Haiti, who are even poorer and blacker and more foreign to him than the people of New Orleans.

Clinton, and Barack Obama, call this bipartisanship.  I call it lying right in our faces.

January 14^th, 2010

Pat Robertson is a misanthropic, sociopathic,
nasty, bitter, bloviating,
racist, pasty-faced neo-nazi,
aryan supremacist, pampered, pompous,
greedy, grasping, slime tongued liar,
TV Huckster, Christian hypocrite,
flapjawed fool
with the conscience of a sewer rat

What other kind of person could say a thing like that?

Who is Pat Robertson and why am I talking about him in such a negative manner?  Pat Robertson is an American Televangelist who raises money by the bucketload from literal minded bible believers.  He said that the folks in Haiti got what they deserved, for being devil worshippers or something like that.

They made a pact with the devil in the 1790s, he said, adding in a very sincere sounding aside “true story.”  Free us from the French, he said they said, and we will serve and worship you.

Now, Robertson says, the devil is calling in the debt.  It was Satan who made the earth shake on Tuesday, killing somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 people, leaving hundreds of thousands, perhaps even over a million, injured, homeless, desperate and grieving.

It’s not the 1^st time Robertson has said something like this.  He said that 9/11 was God’s punishment for America because of our acceptance of the gay lifestyle and that Hurricane Katrina was God’s revenge on New Orleans for being New Orleans.  All sorts of perverted stuff goes on down there.

It gets worse.  Sure, the Reverend Robertson sees God as a vengeful god.  It’s an ugly viewpoint, but hardly unique.  But lets re-examine what happened in 1790 that Robertson refers to as a deal with the devil.

Haiti was, at the time, a lucrative territory of the French Empire.  Planters were making big bucks growing sugar cane and turning it into rum.  Slaves were treated brutally.  In 1790, the slaves revolted.  Twelve years later, they finally achieved their independence.

Pat Robertson obviously thinks that was a very wrong thing for them to do.

There is nothing I can say about Pat Robertson that is bad enough.

January 13^th, 2010

It seems like the state of California may soon legalize marijuana.  They already allow some use, with a doctor’s note, but now they are talking about going all in, the whole enchilada, the full monty.

Sure, all that has happened so far was a procedural vote in the state legislature, but experts on California politics seemed to think that was a significant step.  It would still need to be passed by the legislature and then signed by Governor Schwarzenegger, but as much as he’s been bitching about California not having any money, he might be in a mood for creative measures.  Of course, federal authorities could always pull rank, but maybe they have too much on their plate at the moment to really focus on their silly war on drugs.  So, I’m cautiously opimistic.

There are many reasons to legalize marijuana.

First, of course, just because it’s the right thing to do.  People should be allowed to do whatever they want to, as long as they aren’t hurting anybody else.

2^nd, the hemp plant (not exactly the same as marijuana, but hemp is illegal in the U.S. just because it looks like marijuana, believe it or not) has many uses: as fuel, in the manufacture of rope, paper and cloth, and the seeds provide a nice, crunchy addition to a salad.

3^rd, marijuana has numerous health benefits.  Want proof?  Visit two people –the biggest stoner you know, and the most fanatic anti-marijuana person you know.  While in their home, excuse yourself to go to the bathroom.  Sneak a peek into their medicine cabinet.  I absolutely guarantee you, the stoner will have fewer medicaments.  They don’t need them.

4^th, It would let a lot of people out of jail who don’t belong there, freeing up space for people who do.

5^th, It would improve police-community relations.  As things stand now, people who are basically law abiding, decent folks won’t co-operate with the police on anything, because they know the cops just want to bust people for getting high.

6^th, As a taxable item, it would have an immediate positive effect on the economy.

7^th,  Marijuana calms people down.  Legalizing it would lead to a more civil, less violence prone society.

Reasons for keeping marijuana illegal?  Really, I can’t think of a single one.