In The News

Society Decays
Synopsis of the movie COYOTE UGLY: Piper Perabo stars in this musical romantic romp about a songwriter who tries to make it in Manhattan. When the music business door slams in her face, she takes a job in a rowdy bar where female bartenders whip the crowd into a frenzy with sexy shenanigans.  

When we happened by COYOTE UGLY on television recently, we saw a scene of scantily clad females dancing on top of a bar while being doused with buckets of water. Here’s the kicker: the movie aired from 1-3 pm on the ABC Family channel. 

We can picture the network programming executive sitting at home during school vacation week viewing this “musical romantic romp” with his twelve year old son and ten year old daughter. It would indeed be a heart-warming scene. 

And so society decays. 

Immunization
Rush Limbaugh reminded us a few days back of the - we'll call it - awkwardness - of Michelle Obama announcing the Oscar for best picture for ARGO. ARGO being a movie about the rescue of American embassy personnel from Iran in 1979. Which of course brings to mind (but not for Obama and his supporters) the events in Benghazi where embassy personnel were NOT rescued. Awkward indeed, but only if you have been paying attention.

Well here's another one. We were flipping through a year-end issue of Newsweek recently (yes, it is still being published) and got to the section which recounts notable deaths during the past twelve months. The obituaries were actually remembrances of the famous person by other famous persons. And then we saw it: Ambassador Christopher Stevens was eulogized by....Hillary Clinton. We found it....awkward. 

It is almost as though the Obama administration is seeking to immunize itself from further criticism over what it did or did not do in its biggest foreign policy debacle.

Happening
Pfc. Bradley Manning on Thursday confessed in open court to providing vast archives of military and diplomatic files to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, saying that he released the information to help enlighten the public about “what happens and why it happens” and to “spark a debate about foreign policy.” (NYT, 2/18/2013)

An Army private saw his role as serving to initiate a national debate about U.S. foreign policy. It's what happens when Liberals 'dumb down' the military. 

On a positive note, the traitor has now confessed. 

Life sentence.