Don Imus: A mass media lynching like I've never seen. I think "Nappy Headed Hos" is inherently funny, and an 80 year old geezer saying it on the radio makes it even funnier. Imus has been doing this type of degradation since he began, and only our PC culture has changed. We've become less tolerant and understanding, and we easily confuse humor with racism/sexism/whateveryougot-ism. In today's America, the only people we can still taunt as a class are white men and/or rednecks. I never thought Imus was all that great, but he was kind of an institution. When did we all get so thin-skinned? Amazing how all the folks who flogged their new books on his show ran like rats.
Cheryl Crowe: She advocates using less TP. A lot less. One square, unless you really need two or perhaps three squares, is a small sacrifice to make in order to save the planet.
Toilet paper is one of the human innovations that has made us more comfortable everyday, in a good way. I use what I consider a reasonable ammount. It's more than three squares. And that is one thing I'm not giving up.
My wife suggests that if Sheryl Crow really feels this way about TP, she should use a rag, and carry it with her wherever she goes. Toilet paper is what makes our culture worth fighting for, and I'm happy she got such a backlash.
Rosie O'Donnell: While I like her beating up Donald Trump (the WWF notwithstanding), she's off her rocker when she intones that 9/11 was "set up" by our own government. Rosie, you may be right that War in Iraq was a bad idea, but you defeat yourself when you start spreading this kind of BS. We all saw the planes hit the buildings, and yes, fire does melt steel (that's how we make things with steel....we melt it!)
Cho: Pop! There goes the culture. Freaking bastard. Stopping these mental defects is a lot like defeating terrorism. You never know when one of these wackos is going to show up, and their actions make no sense to rational people. We need to try to stop people like this, but at the same time, we need to realize that crazy, stupid sh*t like mental defects with guns, and terrorists with suicide jackets will always be around in some form, and we'll never stop them all.
Jon Bon Jovi: What concern he showed that a contestant on American Idol would change around a small bit of his tune: "You Give Love a Bad Name". Yeah, how dare he mangle that classic. Jose Feliciano where are you? Kudos to Simon for repeatedly saying that he was "not familiar with that song" after contestants sang Bon Jovi's "hits".