Jason Collins - Gay NBA Player - First Basketball Star Out of Closet | Gossip Cop

Jason Collins - Gay NBA Player - First Basketball Star Out of Closet | Gossip Cop
So it's a good day after all!  Now there's a role model. AND Jason cured the Monday blues!!

Mad Men Hits the Right Notes On MLK Shooting (Or: How I Suffered Through an Ad Agency on 9/11)

Critics seem to keep the AMC series Mad Men under a microscope as far as being historically accurate.  It's like a contest for them to point out a mistake. Waste of time if you ask me, and does the audience REALLY care?  I could just ask my Aunt Cindy and she could tell me that it is accurate because she lived that era enduring New York City.  Maybe creator Matthew Weiner has an "Aunt Cindy?"

Last night's episode featured the national tragedy of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and while sites like Slate, The Huffington Post and Salon are probably going ape-shit analyzing and grading the plot development and characters' reactions, I already give Mad Men an "A."  I give them this grade this because I worked at an advertising agency during another national tragedy - 911, and I saw the horrible reactions.  I have never witnessed a more vile side of human nature in my life.

No sooner did the planes hit the Twin Towers and the non-stop media coverage started our phones began ringing off their hooks.  Just like in Mad Men, the clients were demanding "make-goods" for their commercials that were not going to run. One truly abhorrent mattress dealer (most of them are - do they ironically get no sleep?) was even trying to BUY spots on CNN during the coverage.

Unlike at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce there was NO discussion about closing our ad agency early out of respect.  We were in lock-down mode.  This led to many divided opinions and caused me to look at some co-workers very differently. And it made me have even less respect for some them than I already did. We were forced to stay until the end of the business day even with most of us in tears.  We were an ad agency after all.  We had to stay open until the Earth crashed into the Sun.  The only comfort for me was that most of our account executives were stranded outside of town for days and our clients were not exactly in what I would call "cosmopolitan" areas. "Enjoy your Chick-Fil-A! And by the way, f*ck you!!  - L.B.

The only big surprise for me in Mad Men's episode last night was that Pete Campbell (of all people!) came off as the most disturbed by the MLK tragedy in the agency.  I didn't see THAT one coming.  Harry Crane was no surprise as the head of our media department was scum.  Don Draper - well you know he was upset, but hard to tell just how upset.  Don can always replace a mistress if his neighbor got killed in a DC riot. Megan Draper, truly upset, but then she could later smoke a joint to ease the anxiety. Trudy Campbell - safe in the suburbs, so please stay and get clubbed to death in a race riot dear Pete.   Peggy Olson no doubt saw the tragedy coming and had already mentally prepared herself.  Betty Francis as per usual, told the kids to just turn off the TV so she could go back to thinking about herself and social climbing. Don taking the normally mute Bobby Draper to see Planet of the Apes, a sci-fi movie about racism, was a good plot point. Particularly with them watching it TWICE.

So in reality, I think Mad Men was kind of tame. Maybe because it was in a more ignorant era where people still used the word "negro?"  But I still give it an "A." Imagine what would happen if we faced a beloved national figure being assassinated today and if it was during Honey-Boo-Boo or Dancing with the Stars!?!  I do know it would be chaos within ad agencies and a lot of shouting and tears would ensue.

Mass Demo at start of Bradley Manning's trial at Ft. Meade!

Mass Demo at start of Bradley Manning's trial at Ft. Meade!

Business As Usual...

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You Are NOT Going to Poison the President, Dip-Shit

You know whom you are going to poison? Some working stiff just like yourself who screens the mail.  Why do I assume you have a job?  Because you can still afford f*cking stamps. I can’t really.  I have been unemployed for years.  Do you have to make careful decisions about how to spend your money every day?  I doubt it.  You probably live in your mother’s basement.  Coward.

I loathe what I see going on in Washington. I was there to help a homeless veteran the other day and had to restrain myself from making hand gesture when the president’s motorcade drove by. But the only way to change anything for the better is to VOTE and/or ORGANIZE… dip-shit.

F*cking waste of 49 cents. And you are a f*cking waste of space. You can go back to your video game now.

Best Newspaper Headline Ever???

Thanks, Pok!

Fred Phelps Has FINALLY Weighed in on the Boston Tragedy

The Best Way to Explain Boston Bombings to Small Children

My sister was there at the finish line only hours earlier.  I got lucky. Very, very, very, lucky.  Thinking of all of you in Beantown tonight. And until further notice. Suspecting it's a home grown terrorist. Sorry. I've just lived too much of this sh*t.

Oh No! Now People Are Against "Gray" Marriage!!

Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson=Voter Apathy

I Want to Party Like it's 1776!

I'm sure these guys were more fun than the guys in DC now!!

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Me and Lt. Dan: We Have Work to Do!

Let's Do it!

Only downside is most people in Iceland spend their time drunk.  But good judgement comes from bad judgement.

The Look on Anderson Cooper's Face is Priceless

I thought the problem with N. Korea was their citizens had to subsist on eating tree bark?

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GOP Court$ Lady Gaga: to NO Avail

Talk about a "bad romance?!?"

Last Summer in Tampa - Okay, this is one to make your head spin around and pop off.  The Romney campaign apparently tried to get Lady Gaga to perform at the GOP convention last summer!!!!  Is your head still attached? Mine is hanging by a tendon. If you ever needed proof positive that Mitt Romney is TOTALLY out of touch with ALL of America, this IS IT as nobody's more vocal as a LGBT activist than Gaga!  She and her mother run her Born This Way Foundation which helps prevent bullying and promotes tolerance and equality!  Hello??? You dudes HATE equality.  Remember?

So the biggest bullies of all bullies approached Gaga?  I am a sucker for irony but this may be the funniest thing I've heard all year.  Yes, there are gay conservatives.  I have known some, but they are NOT listening (likely) to Lady Gaga.  This news is so laughable it's pulled me out of the funk I've been in all week because I have been exhausted by how out of touch society has become with each other because of behaving like trolls on social media.

I'm also laughing my bony ass off because this news comes on the heels of the GOP's new plan to make an "outreach effort" to the Latino community.  I've got news for you Grumpy Old White F*CKS: YOU NEED TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO REACH OUT TO EVERYONE. You have alienated ANY person of color*, women, the LGBT community.  The only people the GOP hasn't alienated are unborn fetuses! Your old white boys network couldn't buy a clue with all of the money you've got stashed in the Caymans!

Next time try Madonna.  I bet that old whore can be bought for any price**.  Including a cabana boy.

*Except Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Herman Cain, Allen West, Michael Steele and Alan Keyes. But those dudes may as well be unicorns.

**Of course I am well aware of Madonna's politics, but I still believe she IS for sale.

Unsolicited Drivel: Former CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez Stirs Up More Trouble for Embattled Today Show

Unsolicited Drivel: Former CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez Stirs Up More Trouble for Embattled Today Show

Time to Ditch DOMA

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