I found this new video very disturbing:

Britney Spears was [rightly] excoriated for saying “I think we should just support our President in everything he does.” I expect to hear at least as much criticism of this stupidity – which brings Oval Office hero-worshiping to a new and nauseous level.

I totally agree with the “be the change” concept – nothing new (although still very rare).

But Ashton Kutcher (not the world’s brightest sociopolitical bulb) and Demi Moore pledge to be “servants” to President Obama. What the fuck are they talking about? Kutcher is the same moron who recently referred to President Bush as our “commander”.  Is he channeling jungsturm or something?

Who are these people?

And how many of them do you think could actually sit down and engage in a substantive, nuanced conversation about the important issues they’re pledging about?  Two, three, maybe?

This new Harpo Productions video feels right out of a 1930s propaganda machine. I truly sympathize with President Obama – a human facing inhuman expectations. He will have a very hard time living up to the high-style, breathless absurdity of fluff like this.

Hey idiots: pledge loyalty to ideals, or goals, or foundational principles that stir your heart and soul. Respect others, hope for the best for them, empower them, agree and disagree with them, but don’t worship them.  Pledging to be a “servant” to a single person is called a cult.

Hollywood needs political cluefulness, not a new branch of Scientology.

Here’s my pledge: I pledge to fight against blind, unquestioning loyalty of any kind. It’s what got us into the mess we’re in – and it’s certainly not going to get us out.

Chief Bratton, who feels the Paparazzi Task Force is a waste of time (I agree with him), just said on MSNBC:

“Since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving, Paris is out of town not bothering anybody anymore – thank God – and evidently Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don’t seem to have much of an issue.”

Hey, man, don’t blame me for Linsday – I tried.

One of my favorite fashion models, Angela Lindvall, shot for Purple quite tastefully au naturale by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.  Over at Egotastic.

The guys behind Spamalot just changed a show song reference from Britney Spears to Posh Spice.  On why, Eric Idle said:

“We don’t laugh at sad people.  Britney Spears is being tortured to death and we don’t want to be on that side.”

[Source: Olbermann]

I’ve avoided this mostly.  But if you want to laugh then cry, go here then here (in either order.)

Please, Lord, if something ever happens to me, or someone I care about, please let the people who happen to be around have at least 100% more wits about them than the people who were caring for Donda West the night she died.

Part 1 and Part 2 of the 911 tapes. How totally frustrating. [Source: TMZ]

Well, my friend Chris sent me a morph video that he’d done on this web site, and being a sucker for such things, I couldn’t resist. So, I uploaded a picture of myself to their “celebrity lookalike” thing. Admittedly, I used my recent PopTech glam shot taken by my friend Asa Mathat, who’s clearly very experienced at making ordinary folks look good.
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“Look, I don’t want to say that Britney’s performance was a disaster – but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.”

Folks, y’all know I called this years ago. Mike Musto of the Village Voice may have put it best,

“That outfit was like two band aids made out of tinsel for a stripper with bite marks. This woman had three years to come up with a new image, and she comes out with the same ’streetwalker’ thing, just chunkier? Take more time off, Britney.”

I would like to have authored her re-education program.