- Not the best day in child care for an unidentified grandmother who put her one-month-old grandchild in a plastic security bin and sent the kid through the X-ray machine at LAX. No one in line said anything to the woman when she crammed the infant into the bin, nor did the person running the X-ray machine - at least not until the baby had made its way inside the scanner. How can you not know that it’s not OK to send an actual human being, albeit a tiny one, through an airport X-ray machine? Do you think that when you get X-rays at the dentist, they put that heavy lead vest on for the aesthetic value, because it goes so nicely with your shoes? Grandma, you do know that you also cannot stow the kid in the cargo hold, right? You can't check him at the counter with the rest of your luggage and pick him up after he comes tumbling down the baggage claim carousel, right? Do you also need to be told that you can't give him a bath in the washing machine or drop him in the freezer on a hot summer day? Safe to say that the parents of that child will not be leaving him with Grandma any time soon. And to think that they were about to let her get on a plane to Mexico with their infant son………..
- Props to Donald Trump for his magnanimous and uber-wise decision to allow current Miss America Tara Conner to keep her title after allegations of drug use, underage drinking and “sexual misconduct.” Strip her of her title? Heck no, I say we extend her reign by an extra year. I don’t think Trump and those running the Miss America pageant truly realize how antiquated and irrelevant they and their winners have become. No one looks to Miss America as a symbol of virtue and wisdom, and honestly, no one pays much attention to her after she wins and pops up on a few morning shows the day after. Now, Trump, who should realize the “no such thing as bad publicity” slogan better than most anyone, gets his pageant in the news for a lot longer than it would have been normally. Besides which, Conner is smokin’ hot, and the longer we get to see pictures of her popping up when this story is told and re-told, the better. She promises to go to rehab and clean up her act from here on out, but let’s face it, the “I’m a boozing, drugging, partying skank” toothpaste is out of the tube, and you’re not putting it back in. Embrace who you are, Tara, live it up and enjoy your time in the sun.
- The Price is Right has been, well, a waste of time for a long time now, but amidst a slew of horrible decisions, among them those hideous sequined sport coats that their announcer wore and allowing Bob Barker that close to so many hot young blondes that he could sexually harass (allegedly), the show is apparently making a very smart decision in rejecting the advances of Rosie O’Donnell, who is openly campaigning to host the show once Barker steps down. She got a clause put in her contract for The View that allows her to opt out and take the Price is Right job, but sniffs in an interview, “They apparently don’t want me, which is sad.” Not included was if Rosie O’Fat said this with a straight face. But no, Rosie, what’s sad is your inability to push away from the buffet line, to put down your fifth box of Ring Dings and find a treadmill. What’s sad is your militant lesbianism that seems to cloud your judgment and actions to the point that you sound like a raving lunatic most of the time. Also sad is the fact that you can't just do your job as a co-host on The View, stop verbally accosting the hosts of other shows and offending entire cultures like you did with Chinese people recently. Those things truly are sad. You not hosting The Price is Right isn't sad, it’s a reason for celebration.
- People seem pretty pissed that no discipline at all was given to the two head coaches involved in last weekend’s Knicks-Nuggets NBA brawl at Madison Square Garden. Many want to assign blame to Nuggets coach George Karl and Knicks coach/franchise ruiner Isaiah Thomas for their roles in the debacle. Karl, the lament goes, left four starters in in the waning minutes of a 20-plus point blowout, seeking to embarrass the Knicks and Thomas because Karl’s good friend Larry Brown was fired as Knicks’ coach after an awful 2005-06 season and Thomas was recently bad-mouthing Brown in an interview. Thomas, on the other hand, can be seen on camera, warning Nuggets’ player Carmelo Anthony “not to go into the paint” in those final minutes of the game. The consensus seems to be that Zeke instructed or implied to his players to physically punish Nuggets players who he believed were showing off and rubbing the Knicks’ faces in the fact that the Knicks absolutely suck. I’ll meet everyone halfway on this one….fine and suspend Zeke, but leave Karl alone. Zeke probably did orchestrate the “Code Red”, just like Col. Jessup in A Few Good Men. His warning to Anthony is evidence of that. But Karl? First, you can't prove he….well, wait……he did nothing wrong. It’s the friggin’ NBA, not junior high girls basketball. There is no mercy rule, no restriction on how badly you can beat a team. If the Knicks have a beef with the lopsided score, do something about it on the scoreboard!!!! Score more points, don’t suck so badly. Stop blaming the other team for being so much better than you. If Karl says he wanted his team to finish strong after blowing or nearly blowing big leads, then leave it at that.
- If there’s a good time to be a death row inmate, now would appear to be it. A second state, Maryland, has joined Florida in ruling that executions must be halted until the lethal injection procedure is reviewed, clarified, corrected, etc. States all over are re-examining their execution procedures after Florida botched an execution recently, although the guy still was killed, so how botched it was is open to debate. At this rate, though, with a state a week halting executions, there’s gonna be a massive backlog of criminals waiting to be offed in all 50 states by the end of 2007.
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