Deep Eh

Well, I would have commented on so many things lately, but I've been somewhat overwhelmed with Pedro the puppy, the end of school, dealing with impending knee surgery and other lifey things that I've not really been able to post here much. I haven't really been able to watch television that much, for that matter. I've been sort of out of the news loop. I did manage to catch a bit of the breaking news about the infamous Deep Throat today, though, and I have to say that it was a bit anti-climactic. I don't know who I thought it was going to be. I mean, I read All the President's Men and Blind Ambition and whatever the sequel to APM was. I used to be fairly well-educated on the whole affair, but I sort of hoped for someone a bit more earth shattering than W. Mark Felt. I'm not sure who, though. I think the mystery of it was what was so...well, mysterious. It was what made the story so intriguing. Now it's very much like I've seen the wizard behind the curtain in Oz. Just an ordinary guy. Kind of eh. A disgruntled FBIer who got passed over for a promotion. Eh. Wouldn't it have been really crazy if it WAS Diane Sawyer? I mean, I know it wasn't even remotely likely, but wouldn't that have been a much better story than W. Mark Felt? And who goes by their first initial anyway? I've never actually understood that. If you want to go by your middle name, then fine. Do that. But if you choose to do that, then you just have to drop the whole inital thing altogether. You don't get one. He should be Mark Felt. But I digress.

What I really found rather odd and, I have to say, low class, was his daughter's comment that he "could make enough money to pay some bills, like the debt (she'd) run up for the children's education." Um, hello? Could you look a little less money-grubbing? The man isn't looking especially mentally fit to begin with (okay, I'll say it...he looks daft in the pictures that they are releasing. Positively nutcase crazy in the more flattering and batshit gone in the least) and now his daughter is popping off about spending his royalties on her expenses? It strikes me as being in incredibly poor taste that they are even mentioning money. If he is this great American hero that they are so obviously trying to portray him to be, then let him be that. The story will stand on that and people will buy it. Why would they flap on about having him talk before he dies so he can make some money off of it? Who do they think that will endear him to?

It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out in the media over the next few days. I'm sure we'll see it beaten to death, resurrected and then crucfied again before it's all over with. Me, I think I'll go see if I can find my copy of All the President's Men again...or maybe not.

Hate That, Bill

It must really suck when the minions won't march in a perfect little line, there Billy Boy.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Lamar! Speaks

Wooohooo! Maybe we don't have two total pinheads. Lamar! Alexander, you remember him, he ran for president a couple of times, spoke out against national ID card gruidelines that the Republicans dropped in a military spending bill. Isn't Bill clever like that? You can bet your bippy he's fuming over his homeboy being the Republican that's causing a stink about it, too. I love it.
Lamar! Gets Pissy Over National IDs

Now, I'd be happier if he'd voted against the bill, but at least it is being discussed instead of slipped under the rug, which is what you just know the intent was until he and the Democrats started complaining.

Can you imagine letting the lovely folks at the DMV making the decisions about our national ID card? I taught a few of those folks at our local office and the idea makes my blood run cold. All it would take is a hot guy and a couple of $20s and Osama could have an ID that said he was Jerry McGuire.

Whew!

I know Texas mommies and daddies can breathe a little easier now that the Texas house has taken such decisive action and passed a ban on lewd cheerleading. I mean, there's nothing like a totally redundant and pointless law to make the good citizens of Texas feel as if they are being represented and protected, right (well, some would say that's how we can describe their governor, but I digress).

Newsflash to the Texas house: slutty little girls in too-short skirts with caked on makeup and ho-ed out hair are still going to be two stepping right up to the line of erotica every Friday night all across your glorious state. It's part of football's legacy. I mean, they've been doing that since, forever, haven't they? The problem is, cheerleaders reflect the current society. In the 50s, they wore the long skirts and the saddle shoes, in the seventies, the skirts hit the knee and so on. When I was in school I remember the scandal when the cheerleaders got their first "sun tops"! Oh, the immodesty! They were cheering at football games in August in Tennessee. It wasn't unreasonable to let the poor girls go sleeveless. Cheerleading uniforms continue to evolve because it's big business. FWIW, one of those skimpy little costumes, made of polyester thankyouverymuch, costs well over $100 per girl. The makers aren't stupid.

The dancing evolved, too. It's all about the trends of the times. Cheerleaders want to go out and perform. They want to entertain. They want to look good while they do it. It's not going to take a ridiculous law to change the way that these girls dance, it's going to take a pendulum swing in fad of the day. Unfortunately, acting/talking/looking/dancing like a hooker is part of the cultural norm right now. Humping someone's leg on the dance floor fifteen years ago was enough to get a movie called "Dirty Dancing"...today it would barely even raise an eyebrow at a club. These girls have no shame. When you think it's cute to do pelvic thrusts and booty shakes before a crowd of 10,000, then nothing that the Texas House can do or say is going to change that.

Now, all of that said and done, may I also add that the idea that the cheerleading routines are leading to pregnancy is one of the most ludicrious ones I've heard in a long, long time. Clearly, this was conceived (get it?) by someone who never had even the slightest chance with a cheerleader. I mean, really. She dances, therefore she screws? Puhleaze. First of all, how stereotypically offensive is this? What about the basketball jocks who warm up to music and run around acting like thugs? Doesn't THAT promote the same type of behavior? I mean, who do these legislators think the cheerleaders are out bopping? Second of all, when you break it down percentage-wise, I'd be willing to bet that cheerleaders are no more likely to have sex or get pregnant than the average student. Where did they come up with this "logic". And the idea that the cheerleaders are somehow leading some sort of student orgy at the pep rallies is hysterical. Again, spoken by people who probably never even WENT to a pep rally.

What scares me the most, though, is that some of our nutjob over here in Tennessee are going to get wind of this brilliant idea. Mark my words, if it passes in Texas, we'll have something similar in Tennessee within three years. There are probably some psycho weasely State Reps. halfway in heat drafting up the documents even as I type because we.must.save.the.families.