Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 14th, 2009 |
21 CommentsObama upholds Bush's religion policies
Proving he’s no amateur when it comes to tacking as far right or left as necessary to capture some vital constituency, President Barack Obama recently upheld a key Bush administration policy allowing groups receiving federal dollars to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion.
During the campaign, Obama had assured audiences of his intent to keep the Bush White House focus on faith-based groups but with an end to the exception allowing those...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 12th, 2009 |
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Proving yet again that life is ALWAYS funnier than anything those fellows from the Jon Stewart Show could cook up, Paris Hilton today vowed to do her Rosie the Riveter-like part to help the struggling global economy. By shopping even more than she usually does. Haute couture salons across the world heaved a mighty sigh of relief at the pronouncement, chilled to the bone as they were at the thought of not being able to sell just one more Hermes scarf to our pretty princess from the hills of Los...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 10th, 2009 |
2 CommentsA new study came out yesterday from a group of scientists (or game show writers, judging from the obviousness of the conclusions drawn) telling me what I’d already learned from my days as a fast-food restaurant burger flipper: Children, by and large, have a peculiar habit of eating the kinds and types of food their parents eat. No joke? You really think so?
Now, I’m not putting down the value of research in general. Without it, we’d never know important stuff; like...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 10th, 2009 |
No CommentsIt seems New Line Cinema is bringing back Sarah Jessica Parker and the rest of the movie cast of the “Sex and the City” crew for a sequel to last year’s successful effort. Don’t get me wrong; at least one of the movie’s stars (Kim Cattrall) used to be what my friends called “prime spank bank material,” and she was quite the hottie in “Porky’s,” that 1982 paean to teen angst and coming-of-age in Victorian England. Oops, wrong movie. ...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 10th, 2009 |
2 CommentsI read today about the case of a 40 year-old mother from the depressed city of Hamtramck, Michigan (a town completely surrounded by the urban blight and utter Third World corruption of the once-proud city of Detroit), who was caught being a little too strict on a couple of her children (she has 5 of them). Seems she’d gotten into the habit of tossing her 4 year-old into a heated stove after giving her “boo-boos” around the eyes. Stating that her mom…”cooks me like...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 8th, 2009 |
1 CommentAbout three weeks into his new administration, President Barack Obama made a candid admission that he wasn’t the presidential superman he’d initially appeared to be by saying he’d “screwed up” on several of his nominees to top government posts. Responding to the tax troubles which landed on at least four prominent nominees to his administration, Obama told members of the media that “I’ve got to own up to my mistake. Ultimately, it’s important for...
