Monday Musings With The Crew

• If you follow sports at all, you have seen the story of Jeremy Lin.  The Asian-American point guard sensation came from nowhere to lead the New York Knicks to a 7 game winning streak.  The streak came to an end in a home loss to the New Orleans Hornets Friday night, in part due to Lin's 9 turnovers.  Here is a screen shot from ESPN.com after the game:

That's right, ESPN's headline after the loss by the Knicks was "Chink in The Armor".  Very nice.  ESPN has fired the employee responsible for the headline, as well as suspending on-air commentator Max Bretos, who used the same phrase in a discussion of Lin.  

• Time to give credit where credit is due.  Supermodel Cindy Crawford has decided to end her 10 year old daughter's budding modeling career, saying "at this point she's too young to pursue a career...".  Kaia Crawford's Versace ad did generate some criticism, including in a recent Monday Musings.  Not only are Cindy's parenting instincts on target, her political ones are as well.  After supporting Barack Obama in 2008, Crawford has gone on record as having switched party affiliations to the GOP and has endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican primary.  

• Not to be outdone by Ms. Crawford.....Sir Paul McCartney revealed in a recent Rolling Stone interview that he has given up smoking pot at age 69 in order to be a better example for his 8 year old daughter.  McCartney is quoted as saying "When you're bringing up a youngster, your sense of responsibility does kick in, if you're lucky, at some point"  Gee Paul, ya think?  

• Interesting political tidbit from Germany last week.  German President Christian Wulff resigned on Friday, after being embroiled in a series of scandals.  Included in those were charges that Wulff's frequent holidays were paid for by businessmen, that he had received favorable loans because of his position, and that he had criticized media outlets that were reporting on his actions.  Hmmm, does that sound familiar to anybody else?  
• Lavish vacations paid for by others.....check
• Favorable loan terms unavailable to others.....check
• Attacking media that criticizes his actions....check

               Oh yeah, now I remember.....this guy does that kind of stuff all the time

• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered flags throughout the state flown at half-staff this weekend during Whitney Houston's funeral service.  There are many things I love about Chris Christie.  This was not one of them.  In a related story, a cocaine addict was found dead from overdose in a Newark alleyway over the weekend.  The B-2 flyover is scheduled for tomorrow.

Weekly Hollywood HOs Winner: Morgan Freeman

Hollywood HOs

Weekly Winner: Morgan Freeman

We have several deserving nominees for this week's Hollywood HOs (Hall of Shame) winner.  We have Miley Cyrus attempting to join former pantheon of skankhood laureates Madonna, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton.  We have parent of the year nominee, Cindy Crawford, ushering her 10 year old daughter into a life of eating disorders, pedophiles, narcissism, and addiction.

But this week's winner is a dual award winner.  Not only has Morgan Freeman won this week's Hollywood HOs award, he has also won the coveted Woody Allen Creepy Patriarch Lifetime Achievement award.  Mr. Freeman has apparently either married or intends to marry his, get ready for it... GRANDDAUGHTER

OK, she is only his "step" granddaughter, but EWWWWWWW!  In general, I feel that the use of "EWWWWWWW!" is unmanly in the extreme, but nothing else quite suffices.  My first memories of Morgan are of him on the children's show The Electric Company in the 70's.  Considering media reports that he has married, intends to marry, or in the very least  is having a relationship with a woman 45 years his junior that began when she was 17, again I say EWWWWWWW!

My 12 year old son just walked by as I was writing this post and saw the picture of Morgan Freeman, but not the text.  He asked, "Is that Morgan Freeman?"  I said, "Yes."  He asked, "How old is he?"  I said, "74."  He asked, "Is he still doing stuff?"  I nodded and as he walked away I said softly, "Apparently."

*Editor's note:  At times, we take some creative liberties in our stories.  The preceding paragraph is a 100% factual account of my conversation with my son.

Monday Musings With The Crew

• Why did the University of Kansas hire the transgender child of Sonny and Cher to coach their football team?  What, was Renee Richards unavailable?

• Newt, I'm trying really hard to support you in the GOP primary.  I love your knowledge of history, your ability to pick apart the foibles and fallacies of the Obama administration, and your ability to rise from the electoral dead.  What I don't love is when you criticize Mitt Romney on his wealth, his Swiss/Cayman Island bank accounts, his tax returns, blah blah blah.  That is a page right out of the "Class Warfare" chapter of the secular progressive handbook.  Very unbecoming for one who purports to be the "conservative" candidate in the GOP field.  You can be better than that.

• The Crew would like to nominate Miley Cyrus as a candidate for this week's Hollywood HOs award.  Photographed making "lingual" advances to her boyfriend's phallic shaped birthday cake  last week, Miley has certainly come a long way!  Gee, who would have guessed that Hannah Montana would turn out to be a ridiculous skank?  Uh, maybe everybody who saw this performance the 16 yr old Cyrus put on at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards:

Hmmm, daughter working the pole at age 16... nice work Billy Ray

• Continuing the theme, supermodel Cindy Crawford's daughter made her modeling debut for Versace this week, appearing in an ad for Young Versace, a clothing line aimed at children 12 and under and pedophiles.  Here is Kaia Crawford in the ad:

Now Crew, you are saying.... the leather jacket, miniskirt, and loads of makeup are all a bit much for a teenage girl, but it's nothing obscene.  Well, technically you are right.  Oh, did I mention that Kaia Crawford is TEN years old?  Consider Mama Cindy up for a Hollywood HOs as well.

• I (Sahib) needed to make an addition to the Crew's Monday Musings.  We just couldn't leave this story out.  A young man, 6, in California was suspended and charged with sexual assault for playing tag.  Check out the Fox News video.  A seventeen year old  snowball thrower is in trouble as well. I guess snowballs are now officially classified as missiles.