These endless smoking bans and tax hikes are making me bitter. A Norwegian professor named Bharat P. Bhatta says that fat people should pay more for airline tickets because they create more jet-fuel consumption. Ten years ago, I would have said that was mean-spirited. Not anymore.
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Evidently, there are only two issues that warrant media attention these days: gun control and gay marriage. I don’t own a gun and I’m not gay, so I do not, as they say, have a dog in these hunts — at least, not directly. But all of this babble about “fairness” and “equality” is a joke to single Americans — gay and straight. Here’s why.
(The article addresses single women, but most of the points apply to single men, as well.)
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It’s not often that I agree with the talking heads on Fox News and on MSNBC. Dr. Keith Ablow (above), a talking bald head, was singing my tune when he said government should get out of the marriage business: “That means: No preferential treatment at tax time, no preferential treatment for married folks by insurance companies. Everyone should be treated as an individual.” Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, Bob Franken was proposing pretty much the same thing: time to dump unfair benefits for married people.
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Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass box at a museum. Performance art, or mental illness?
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Bill Carter of the New York Times has praise for Barbara Walters, who is said to be retiring next year: “She was doing interviews with every big figure in the news at that point in her time. She was part of that whole shuttle diplomacy era, flying back and forth in the Mideast between Begin and Sadat and all the other big figures, like Castro and Gaddafi and all these very famous figures in history.”
Depressing, because now we have Dennis Rodman doing that job.
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Here are pictures of Jeffrey Toobin getting clobbered outside of the Supreme Court. I don’t know about you, but I enjoy seeing Jeffrey Toobin getting clobbered.
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