Isolation Thought

My car remains a hit with the youth of America. Shouts of "Hey, Mister" are being shouted in my direction constantly. They don't know it's after I've cursed them for being too slow or too ignorant.

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A primer on movie cameos where celebrities play themselves. One of my favorites is Bert Parks in "The Freshman". His version of "Maggie's Farm" still kills me.

Stephen Hawking changes his mind about black holes. Or maybe they left him out in the sun again.

Before we get all hot and bothered over Slim-Fast canning Whoopi Goldberg, keep two things in mind. The Slim-Fast President is a major Democratic donor, so using the old tired "work of another conservative" argument doesn't work. Number two, the free speech argument always rings hollow in these cases. Companies don't like it when a spokesperson brings negative publicity unrelated to the ads themselves. OK, you hate Jared on Subway ads. Well, he's not out sleeping with goats in public (as far as we know), he's just annoying on their ads (and is coming back, I hear). Pick Kobe or Fuzzy Zoeller or Madonna, now it happens to be Whoopi. You do something stupid in the employ of a company you advertise for, you're gonna get canned. You are there to potentially increase, not decrease sales. Now if you want to debate the hire in the first place, I'm game.

Exercise Yard

Add Torrie Edwards to the list of dopers. Hate to keep harping on it, but track and field in this country is dead. I happen to like it a lot, but this scandal will take it even further out of the mainstream.

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