June 2010

Well, people get married in fish tanks, they exchange their vows with a robot presiding, a couple getting married at the Indianapolis Colts Stadium --well is --so what? It's June and June is for weddings and graduating from school, and waiting for winter sports to end -- ice hockey and basketball too. Any way, the Associated Press reports that a pair of "football fans decided to show their love for the Indianapolis Colts, and each other," -- It may have been better if in the news item their love for each other was mentioned before their love for the Indianapolis Colts -- but then the point of the article is to show the odd things people do, and Mr and Miss so and so getting married in June isn't odd, unless the ceremony takes place in an unusual venue, or is presided over by an unusual presider -- So the Mr. and Miss by holding their wedding at Lucas Oil Stadium made the news.

Yes, I do not trust cell phone manufactures who tell us that cellphones are perfectly safe, and that we should not worry about the radiation the phones give off. I waited for years before I got a cell phone. With the nearly disappearance of street phone booths and boxes, having a cellphone has become a necessity.

Of course when I use a cellphone, I use an earplug with a long cord,  and I hold the phone as far from my body as possible. I only take the phone with me when I have to be near a phone.

Chris Matthews of MSNBC did a fair and balanced documentary on the Tea Party Movement called "The Rise of the New Right" and the movement heads started bawling and calling for a boycott of Chris Matthews sponsors.

Right-wing activists are all buzzing themselves silly calling Mr. Matthews doc a "hit piece".  Why? Because Mr. Matthews showed the scary face of the Tea Party Movement? Pointed out the wing-nuts involved in the movement and other crazies? To anyone who doubts the involvement of wing-nuts in the Tea Party, I say: Go to the rallies, listen to the speeches. Any fair observer can see that Mr. Matthew gave a true picture of some of the characters involved in the Tea Party Movement, and telling the truth is telling the truth. It isn't as The National Tea Party Federation claims demonizing or misrepresenting the facts.

Get down to your beaches America! Gather up that oil! British Petroleum so loves America that it is filling our beaches with free oil!

Cranking Up The Pressure

The public is cranking up the pressure on President Obama to crank up the pressure on British Petroleum. Yesterday, the Obama administration accused British Petroleum of taking risky shortcuts, before the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion, that resulted in the busted well, gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. See the video.

I saw this video and liked it. Men in Latvia testing their strength in a wife-carrying contest. See the video.

Well? Where should I start? After I watched the video, I scratched my head and pondered. I asked myself, "Now, what does it mean? How to I explain what I saw?" I looked for the true, deeper, underlying meaning of a man carrying his wife on his back? Carrying the wife on the back! Men still have to do that? I thought the 21st century woman wanted us to get away from that kind of thing.

I looked a little carefully -- Hauling the wife on the back, showing the little woman how strong men are? That is cave man stuff.

Well, the video is of a contest, right? Man and wife working together? The Man supplying the muscles and the strength; the wife showing her skill in hanging on? The best at the contest practice? Is this is the best way to get the wife to lose weight?

I saw the rumor on the Internet yesterday afternoon that Russell Crowe had died and then the immediate announcement that Russell Crowe is alive and well, and is the latest target of an Internet celebrity death hoax. My first thought was good, great. Russell Crowe is well.

Russell Crowe is one of the best actors in the movies today. I must confess to a second thought that I had, when I heard of the hoax. It concerned his last movie. Yes, Russell Crowe is alive, it is his last movie, "Robin Hood," that is dead.

The Mayor of London wants us to cool it, to lay off of BP, to give the chaps a break. Really?

Marvin Isley, American musician, outstanding bass guitarist, and the youngest member of one of the best family R&B / soul groups, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Isley Brothers, died Sunday morning, June 6th, in a Chicago hospice from complications with diabetes, after a twenty year struggle. He was only fifty six years old.

The Isley Brothers, which has often been called history's best brother's band was formed in 1954 with the three eldest brothers Isley -- O'Kelly Jr., Rudolph and Ronald -- Marvin Isley joined in 1973, when the group expanded to six performers. The Isley Brothers had many hits, including, "That Lady," "The Heat is On," "Go For Your Guns" and "Fight the Power."

The Associated Press reports, Marvin Isley's widow Sheila "is remembering her husband of 20 years as a great family man who loved his children."