Six Things I Wonder on A Monday's Eve

1. What posseses someone to think, "My life is so fabulous and interesting that I should make a reality TV program about it. People will be fascinated by me and my life."

2. What posseses someone to think, "The mundane details of their life are so riveting that I think I'll watch a reality TV program about them. I'm fascinated by them and their life."

3. Will the grass ever be green again?

4. Why do I keep smelling bacon?

5. Will Kieran ever learn to talk?

6. Is it possible to partake in too many of Dominos 2-medium-pizzas deals? (I"m gonna go ahead and answer this one with a "no.")

And we wonder why our country is in trouble

If you've ever wondered how so many people can make so many bad financial decisions and cause so much economic turmoil, this may shed some light on the situation. Yeah.

Oops

Frost sent me this article. As she said, "Talk about a cut-throat business!"

An actor has almost died after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife instead of a blunt prop knife.

Daniel Hoevels, 30, was performing in Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots at Vienna's Burgtheater in Austria at the weekend.Hoevels's character was to commit suicide in the drama, a scene that was to be acted out with a blunt stage weapon. But he had been given a real blade instead, London's Telegraph said.

He collapsed with blood pouring from his neck, and the audience members started applauding what they thought were the spectacular special effects, the Telegraph said. It was only when Hoevels failed to get up to take a bow that they realised something was wrong, it said.

Police were investigating the incident as a possible murder attempt, and would not rule out the possibility a jealous rival might have switched the blades. Police were told the knife was bought at a local store, and were investigating whether props
staff forgot to blunt the blade, the Telegraph said.

"The knife even still had the price tag on it," a police investigator said. The actor had emergency treatment at a local hospital. "If Hoevels had hit an artery or cut only slightly deeper, he would have died on stage," a doctor said. Remarkably, Hoevels returned to the stage the next night with a bandage on his neck.

What was that?

I found this amusing assortment of quotes by celebrities on the ABCNews site. They made me laugh.

"I love religion. I remember whenever the book "The Da Vinci Code" came out, the Discovery Channel did this three-night piece on it that I TiVoed and then watched eight times."
- Jessica Simpson in 2009, Marie Claire magazine

"When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes."
- Nicole Richie, 2007, Nylon magazine

"I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2003, in an interview with radio host Sean Hannerty during the California gubernatorial campaign

"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
-Christina Aguilera, 2000, to the cast of "Saturday Night Live" backstage

"All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through."
-R. Kelly, 2003, after a court hearing on charges of child pornography

"I think the 'Clueless' movie was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness."
-Alicia Silverstone, 2000 to the Sunday Telegraph. She was nominated for Britain's annual Foot in Mouth award, honoring the celebrity who makes the most baffling verbal statement.

"I get to go overseas places, like Canada."'
-Britney Spears in 1999, to the Toronto Star, when asked about the perks of fame

"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
-- Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece in 1994 to Sports Illustrated

"It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people."
-Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, 1989, Rolling Stone

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
- Dan Quayle, Sept. 15, 1988 during a press conference in Moore, Okla., in answer to a question on the Holocaust

Excuse me, your bias is showing

It made me laugh (or, at least, smile wryly) when, months ago, the Democratic presidential candidates refused to participate in a debate sponsored by FoxNews on the grounds that Fox is "biased" (read: leans toward the right and doesn't always print stuff that agrees with the Dem's agenda). As if the other networks don't have any hint of bias themselves (read: lean to the left and toe the Democratic line). Seriously? Can the Dems really believe that the other networks are completely unbiased in everything they report on?

The love affair the non-Fox networks are having with Obama is almost unbelievable. Daily, there's a Palin-bashing article, along with a "guess who supports Obama today?" proclamation. So quick to point out any semblance of a gaffe on McCain/Palin's part, did any of them (besides Fox) pounce on the glaring mistake by Biden a few weeks ago?


And are any of them (besides Fox) reporting on Obama's glowing endorsement of a book by former domestic terrorist William Ayers?

Yeah, there's some bias going on all right, but I don't think FoxNews needs to shoulder the moniker by itself. There's plenty of bias to go around for those who don't want to stick their heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. As has been pointed out so many times before, everyone has a bias -- news media included. It just depends on which bias is the best bias to have.

My life is now complete (again)

You and I can both rest easy knowing that mathematicians have found the 46th known Mersenne prime number. We can rest uneasy knowing that $100,000 was given to the team who discovered it. One-hundred grand for discovering another number that is only divisible by one and itself?! I should have been a mathematician.

Riddle Me This

Why, oh why, is Mary Murphy a continual judge on So You Think You Can Dance? A guest judge maybe, but every week? It's too much. I'd like to think that I speak for the rest of America (at least the sane Americans) when I say that we cannot handle the screaming and inane comments anymore. Please, Mary, for the sake of our ears and sanity, hop on your own Hot Tamale Train and ride on out of here.

Does she realize what she's saying?

From FoxNews.com:

A U.K. hospital told an expectant mother she had miscarried at eight weeks, but a scan of the woman's womb a month later revealed she still was pregnant, The Daily Mail reported.

Catherine Kent, 27, and her partner, Kevin Gray, 28, were devastated when they were told she had miscarried. Kent was offered an abortion or pills to shorten the length of the miscarriage. She refused, opting to allow the fetus to pass naturally, according to the report.

Although the couple was delighted to find out the baby still was alive, they were furious that the Sunderland Royal Hospital had made a mistake that had caused them so much grief.

"What if I had taken the tablets they offered me?" Kent told the Daily Mail. "They could have left my baby severely disabled, or it could have died. They could've aborted my baby while it was alive. How can the hospital make a mistake like that? How many other people have taken the tablets or had an abortion when their baby was alive all the time?"

Um, all of them? Does she really think that pre-born babies are dead before they are killed?

The Definition of Irony

This falls under the "what is wrong with these people?" category.

The quote below appears in an article on a new documentary about abortion (also known as baby-killing). Obviously I don't agree with those who bomb abortion clinics or advocate killing doctors who kill babies, but this really takes the cake. Imagine someone who is pro killing babies condemning someone else for killing:

"This was not a balanced portrayal of the issue," said Carol King, former National Organization for Women board member and abortion-rights activist, who has seen the documentary. "One of the things that has upset me more than anything else is the [comparison] of the anti-choice extremists to pro-choice activists. I have never encouraged in any way to kill people with whom I disagree."

No, you just encourage women to kill their babies before said babies have a chance to disagree with you. That's rich.

What is wrong with these people?

Seriously, what is wrong with these people who try out for So You Think You Can Dance who canNOT dance? (Never mind asking what is wrong with those people who actually watch So You Think You Can Dance.) And what is wrong with the people who tell these people that they can, in fact, dance?

I'm blessed to have a husband who keeps me grounded.

"I think I"ll try out for So You Think You Can Dance."

"You can't dance."

"Yes I can."

"No you can't. You stink at dancing."

"Might as well give it a try."

"You're too old."

If only those deluded dancers had such a person in their lives to keep them in touch with reality.

Note to the American public: If you think you can dance, you probably can't dance.