As long as there have been famous people, there have been famous people who have done stupid things. Michael Jackson held his son over a hotel balcony. Eddie Griffin totaled a million-dollar Ferrari. Coolio lost years worth of street cred by appearing in a flashing square for a week, screaming like a girl while trapped in a plexiglas cube, and playing poker badly on basic cable.
But that's not the kind of stupidity we're talking about. I'm referring to the stupidity of two women: Rosie O'Donnell and Sheryl Crow. On the 26-March-2007 episode of ABC's hen-party The View, O'Donnell said that 7 World Trade Center was imploded, and not the target of an al-Qaeda attack. It should be noted that O'Donnell has publically announced her belief in "conspiracy theories" concerning the attacks of 11-September-2001.
Her comments were cheered by the audience, but drew the scorn of Bill O'Reilly, and a point-by-point dissection from Popular Mechanics. (If you're wondering, fire can indeed melt steel; and has been able to for thousands of years.)
Sheryl Crow has taken up the green flag, and tried to help save the forest. Her dictum? When using the toilet, only take off one square of toilet paper for cleaning. (She goes on to say that in the case of a big, steaming dump, you can in fact use two squares. Why thank you, Mrs. Scrooge). I hope that the idea was in jest, because it seems like an offshoot of that one Seinfeld episode. We should use less paper overall, sure, but there are better ways to go about it; paperless offices, electronic banking, and so on. The stinkpalm is not the way to go.
Here's the deal. I look to entertainers to entertain. I want musicians to perform their craft; not proselytize about how we should ration paper, or to spread disinformation to willing sheeple. I would be more likely to embrace the ideas or opinions of say, Alex Trebek or Penn Jillette, because they've demonstrated intelligence in addition to adeptness while performing. Rosie O'Donnell has demonstrated herself to be a loud talking head, and she has gained popularity because her audience has not bothered to think for themselves or to do any sort of research whatsoever. (How do you think blacksmiths were able to craft swords, Rosie? Duh.) Sheryl Crow can play guitar and sing with the best of 'em, and I like much of her music, but I'm not picking up what she's putting down.
She ought to stick to what she does best. Rosie O'Donnell should just go away.
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Anyone who doesn't think steel can melt when subjected to the heat of 8,000 gallons of gasoline blazing needs to do a recent news search on the "MacArthur Maze". While the collapse is going to be a real pain on the commute (on the other side of the bay, at lease), it's a nice little "shut up" to those conspiracy theorists who don't believe fire can get hotter than what's in their fireplace.
As for the toilet paper thing, screw the trees, I'm not giving up my 2-ply, let alone single-squaring it.
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