Dulling Life

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At the celebrity community there is a report on a rugby team doing away with its cheerleaders. The poster included a nice picture of the hot, nubile cheerleaders in their sexy costume doing a routine on the field. Monk could not believe that anyone could even consider such a move.

Russell Crowe is the owner that initiated the move, "Our focus is to re-establish rugby league and women. The focus on game day should be a positive experience for the crowd. We feel they (cheerleaders) made a lot of people uncomfortable."

Monk is thinking, "How fucking gay is that?!"

In the discussion under this post, an LJer responds to an other's incredulity about how cheerleaders make people feel uncomfortable, "I think a lot of women hate to see other women showing off their implants and objectifying themselves and acting like strippers... and don't like their children seeing it either. they're not exactly wholesome, yo!"

What the fuck! I take this as another indication of how the world has left Monk behind. This just seems so sad to me. I guess we can just forget about rape-pornography ever becoming acceptable again!


(Source: OhNoTheydidnt)

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Dulling Life

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At the celebrity community there is a report on a rugby team doing away with its cheerleaders. The poster included a nice picture of the hot, nubile cheerleaders in their sexy costume doing a routine on the field. Monk could not believe that anyone could even consider such a move.

Russell Crowe is the owner that initiated the move, "Our focus is to re-establish rugby league and women. The focus on game day should be a positive experience for the crowd. We feel they (cheerleaders) made a lot of people uncomfortable."

Monk is thinking, "How fucking gay is that?!"

In the discussion under this post, an LJer responds to an other's incredulity about how cheerleaders make people feel uncomfortable, "I think a lot of women hate to see other women showing off their implants and objectifying themselves and acting like strippers... and don't like their children seeing it either. they're not exactly wholesome, yo!"

What the fuck! I take this as another indication of how the world has left Monk behind. This just seems so sad to me. I guess we can just forget about rape-pornography ever becoming acceptable again!


(Source: OhNoTheydidnt)

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A Frank Sinatra Station?

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All Frank Sinatra all the time! While listening to the all-Elvis station, I hear SIRIUS advertising an upcoming all-Sinatra station. I love his "One For My Baby," and I might tune in every once in a while for a nice torch song, but Monk is not really a Frank Sinatra fan.

I was doubtful that they have enough material to justify having a station devoted only to Sinatra. It then occurred to me that it might not be a bad idea if they expanded on the concept, turning it into an all-Rat Pack station. In particular, I am thinking of Dean Martin. Monk could stand a fair dose of Dean Martin, and that would fill out a station with Sinatra quite nicely. Everybody loves somebody sometime.

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A Frank Sinatra Station?

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All Frank Sinatra all the time! While listening to the all-Elvis station, I hear SIRIUS advertising an upcoming all-Sinatra station. I love his "One For My Baby," and I might tune in every once in a while for a nice torch song, but Monk is not really a Frank Sinatra fan.

I was doubtful that they have enough material to justify having a station devoted only to Sinatra. It then occurred to me that it might not be a bad idea if they expanded on the concept, turning it into an all-Rat Pack station. In particular, I am thinking of Dean Martin. Monk could stand a fair dose of Dean Martin, and that would fill out a station with Sinatra quite nicely. Everybody loves somebody sometime.

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The Audacity of Obama's Hope

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Describing the crowd's reaction to him in Rockford, Illinois, Time's Joe Klein noted: "The African-Americans tend to be fairly reserved... The white people, by contrast, are out of control." Klein ranked Obama alongside Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan as "black people who... seem to have an iconic power over the American imagination because they transcend racial stereotypes." In other words, Obama does not make white people feel too white, or at least feel too bad about being white.

-- The Guardian

Going by the television reports, Mr. Barack Obama officially opens his bid for the presidency today. The Guardian column gives a fairly laudatory encapsulation of the man and his bid. One can see a flavor of his populist appeal:

"If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child," he said, gathering rhetorical pace. "If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties."

... "The stakes are too great to let the cynics win this time," he tells a Democratic audience in DC that same day. "This is our time. It's time for us to stop settling for the world as it is and start re-imagining the world as it might be. We've had a lot of plans, but what we've also had is a shortage of hope."

... "The ark of history is long," he says, quoting Martin Luther King, "but it bends towards justice. But it doesn't bend on its own," Obama continues. "It bends because you decide we shouldn't live in a country where the poor do not have healthcare." Big cheer. "It bends because you decide everybody deserves an education even if they're not wealthy." Bigger cheer. "It bends because you decide we don't want to be feared in the world, we want to be respected." And the atrium echoes to a deafening roar.

Obama seems to have the music and the vision thing. But, thinking of Walter Mondale's old question, does he have the beef? That is what this contest will be about.

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The Audacity of Obama's Hope

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Describing the crowd's reaction to him in Rockford, Illinois, Time's Joe Klein noted: "The African-Americans tend to be fairly reserved... The white people, by contrast, are out of control." Klein ranked Obama alongside Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan as "black people who... seem to have an iconic power over the American imagination because they transcend racial stereotypes." In other words, Obama does not make white people feel too white, or at least feel too bad about being white.

-- The Guardian

Going by the television reports, Mr. Barack Obama officially opens his bid for the presidency today. The Guardian column gives a fairly laudatory encapsulation of the man and his bid. One can see a flavor of his populist appeal:

"If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child," he said, gathering rhetorical pace. "If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties."

... "The stakes are too great to let the cynics win this time," he tells a Democratic audience in DC that same day. "This is our time. It's time for us to stop settling for the world as it is and start re-imagining the world as it might be. We've had a lot of plans, but what we've also had is a shortage of hope."

... "The ark of history is long," he says, quoting Martin Luther King, "but it bends towards justice. But it doesn't bend on its own," Obama continues. "It bends because you decide we shouldn't live in a country where the poor do not have healthcare." Big cheer. "It bends because you decide everybody deserves an education even if they're not wealthy." Bigger cheer. "It bends because you decide we don't want to be feared in the world, we want to be respected." And the atrium echoes to a deafening roar.

Obama seems to have the music and the vision thing. But, thinking of Walter Mondale's old question, does he have the beef? That is what this contest will be about.

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