Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Chicago Tribune, George Bush, LA Times, MTV, New York Times, person of the week, Russell Brand, Sarah Palin, The Jonas Brothers, VMAs
Borrowed from dailymail.co.uk
Oh Russell, what a stir you have caused you naughty, naughty Brit!
Russell Brand, host of MTV’s 2008 VMAs, British comedian and former drug/sex addict, was relatively unknown in the US, until his scandalous performance last night.
At the 25th Annual VMAs, Brand made a few less than friendly jokes about Bush, Palin’s daughter and The Jonas Brothers. While some appreciated Brand audacious jabs, others were mortified to say the least.
But ya gotta admit he’s got pizazz!
He first made fun of his own lack of fame in the US and quickly moved on to a plea for Americans to elect Barack Obama “on behalf of the world” claiming that America is progressive enough to elect a black president because “otherwise why would you let that retaded cowboy fella be president for eight years? We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because in England he wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.”
He then moved on to make fun of that “poor teenage father boy” who will “never have sex again.” He was reffering to little Palin’s lover, concluding that his misfortune? makes pledging to remain chaste til marriage sound like the “greatest idea ever.” Enter The Jonas Brothers.
“The 2008 VMAs were poised to mark the return of Britney Spears. Instead, they will go down in history as the night when that English guy from “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” almost made the Jonas Brothers cry,” according to the LA Times.
While The Chicago Tribune was a tad more ambiguous and The New York Times was far more appreciative of Brand’s humor, I want to know how the Jonas Brothers feel about all this? Did they laugh it off or are they as pisses as Jordin Sparks who used her stage time to defend the ever popular purity rings?
One of the highlights of the night was when Brand called Britney “the female Christ” and talked about happiness and philosophy with some hot little number as the credits rolled.
And what do I think? Well, if you haven’t guessed it by now, I love Russell and while I admit his humor was, shall we say, severe, it’s all apart of the act and everyone needs to calm down. And with Britney’s comeback being less than dazzling (sure she snagged 3 awards, but all she did was act like an empty little robot) something needed to grab our attention.
Verdict: I hope Russell doesn’t get black listed :/.
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Thank you John for that correction. I guess that’s what happes when I try to skim articles at 2 in the morning. (See comments under “Lower the Drinking Age?”)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09obdrug.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
So this guy Giovanni was doing some research and apparently the “five most common cannabinoids… were found effective against several common multi-resistant bacterial strains.”
The bummer: “the researchers suggested that the nonpsychotropic cannabinoids might prove more promising for eventual use.”
Still, if penicillin let’s you down, at least you know smoking that joint defenitely won’t hurt… by golly it may just save your life!
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gJmv4POXDyupBSnJm_7w4h5xawtw
Every young collegiate’s dream may finally come true. College presidents are proposing that the U.S. lowers the legal drinking age to 18. Not surprisingly, this is kind of controversial.
I was once completely in favor of lowering it. It’s only logical that if you are legally considered an adult you should be able to order a fucking drink!! Plus, if drinking weren’t considered such a big deal, teens and young adults wouldn’t feel the urge to drink til they pass out, throw up or die.
But the numbers don’t lie. Stats show that since the drinking age was changed to 21, drunk driving accidents were cut in half. That’s huge.
While I’d love to go out like the adult I am, it’s definitely not worth the lives of thousands of potential victims. Society is stupid and it sucks, and I honesty don’t think we can even get the binge mentality off college campuses anyways. It’s too ingrained in the social scene. I mean, what would awkward chem majors do without it?
I guess frat parties and fake IDs will have to do for now.
