There were a number of topics I would have loved to address in separate blogs over the past five months. Working a 40-hour-a-week job and personal responsibilities however took precedence over blogging. So here are my thoughts on the following topics in brief paragraphs that would have become separate blogs given the time.
On the mother who bitch-slapped her son for participating in the riots over the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department: If society had more mothers like Toya Graham to express their “tough love” on their sons, we wouldn’t be seeing kids rioting in the streets, destroying property and engaging in matters that don’t concern them. Just because others are doing it doesn’t mean you should be doing it. Or are you one of those people, who, when you see someone jump off a cliff, do the same thing?
On Bruce Jenner’s Diane Sawyer interview: Regardless of all the jokes and what you think of the former Olympian’s decision to become a woman, people need to realize that the personal battles transgendered people go through -- suicide, bullying, battling acceptance and murder is no laughing matter.
On former NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams’ suspension for lying about his involvement aboard an army helicopter in Iraq in 2003: The comment Aaron Altman, the TV reporter Albert Brooks played in "Broadcast News" (1987) said about news anchor Tom Grunick (William Hurt) came to my mind upon hearing of Williams’ downfall. “He will be attractive! He'll be nice and helpful. He'll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He'll never do an evil thing! He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing ... he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important. Just a tiny little bit. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit. And he'll talk about all of us really being salesmen.”
I want the most trusted newsman in America back! If ABC news anchor Peter Jennings can’t rise from the dead, then I’ll take anyone but Brian Williams!
On the first anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last March: Want to know a secret? I know what happened to the plane and its passengers and crew last March. See the 1989 sci-fi, time travel movie, "Millennium", and then we’ll talk. (I hope you readers know I'm kidding, by the way).
On the new Apple watches: Need to know the time? Let me check my 42mm 18-Karat Yellow Gold Case $15,000.00 watch with the Black Classic Buckle!
On Patricia Arquette’s unnecessary speech about equal pay for women upon winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Boyhood" in February: Arquette, while she may not command the kinds of salaries fellow actresses Sandra Bullock or Meryl Streep do, Arquette still makes more money than today’s women in the work force. She is not the right person to be talking about equal pay for women.
On J.K. Simmons’ speech upon winning Best Supporting Actor for "Whiplash" in February: "Call your mom, call your dad. If you’re lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call ‘em. Don’t text. Don’t email. Call them on the phone. Tell ‘em you love ‘em, and thank them, and listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.”
Now, there’s an Oscar speech that actually did matter!
So in closing this week’s blog, I quote from the late, great radio broadcaster Paul Harvey, who died in 2009 – “And now you know the rest of the story. Darth Stumpo. Good day!”
©5/13/15
On the mother who bitch-slapped her son for participating in the riots over the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department: If society had more mothers like Toya Graham to express their “tough love” on their sons, we wouldn’t be seeing kids rioting in the streets, destroying property and engaging in matters that don’t concern them. Just because others are doing it doesn’t mean you should be doing it. Or are you one of those people, who, when you see someone jump off a cliff, do the same thing?
On Bruce Jenner’s Diane Sawyer interview: Regardless of all the jokes and what you think of the former Olympian’s decision to become a woman, people need to realize that the personal battles transgendered people go through -- suicide, bullying, battling acceptance and murder is no laughing matter.
On former NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams’ suspension for lying about his involvement aboard an army helicopter in Iraq in 2003: The comment Aaron Altman, the TV reporter Albert Brooks played in "Broadcast News" (1987) said about news anchor Tom Grunick (William Hurt) came to my mind upon hearing of Williams’ downfall. “He will be attractive! He'll be nice and helpful. He'll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He'll never do an evil thing! He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing ... he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important. Just a tiny little bit. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit. And he'll talk about all of us really being salesmen.”
I want the most trusted newsman in America back! If ABC news anchor Peter Jennings can’t rise from the dead, then I’ll take anyone but Brian Williams!
On the first anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last March: Want to know a secret? I know what happened to the plane and its passengers and crew last March. See the 1989 sci-fi, time travel movie, "Millennium", and then we’ll talk. (I hope you readers know I'm kidding, by the way).
On the new Apple watches: Need to know the time? Let me check my 42mm 18-Karat Yellow Gold Case $15,000.00 watch with the Black Classic Buckle!
On Patricia Arquette’s unnecessary speech about equal pay for women upon winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Boyhood" in February: Arquette, while she may not command the kinds of salaries fellow actresses Sandra Bullock or Meryl Streep do, Arquette still makes more money than today’s women in the work force. She is not the right person to be talking about equal pay for women.
On J.K. Simmons’ speech upon winning Best Supporting Actor for "Whiplash" in February: "Call your mom, call your dad. If you’re lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call ‘em. Don’t text. Don’t email. Call them on the phone. Tell ‘em you love ‘em, and thank them, and listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.”
Now, there’s an Oscar speech that actually did matter!
So in closing this week’s blog, I quote from the late, great radio broadcaster Paul Harvey, who died in 2009 – “And now you know the rest of the story. Darth Stumpo. Good day!”
©5/13/15
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