That's what pundits are calling Arnold Schwarzenegger, movie star and former governor of California, after it came out this week that he'd fathered a 14-year-old boy with his family's housekeeper -- apparently born the same week that his "legitimate" son Christopher was born. The boy's mother apparently slept with Arnold lots of times under his wife's nose -- and in his and his wife's bed, too. And she continued to work for the family until this year; it's now unclear whether she quit or was fired by Arnold to keep his wife from seeing how much the boy looked like him.
Frankly, I don't think marital betrayal gets much cruder than this. Yes, his wife's uncles (JFK and RFK) were world-class womanizers, but even they weren't so low as to sleep with a household worker with whom their wife was friendly. (That didn't stop her cousin Michael Kennedy, who supposedly had an affair with the teenaged babysitter, but he died in a skiing accident shortly after that was revealed, in a sort of poetic justice.) This rates right up there with his wife's Uncle Teddy killing Mary Jo Kopechne. Even though Maria Shriver is divorcing him and his kids are contemplating changing their last names from Schwarzenegger to Shriver, Arnold still hasn't earned full entry into the Kennedy Crime Family until he snuffs someone.
Back in the 1980s, "Hans and Franz" (Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon) used to do a Schwarzenegger parody where they wanted to "pump ... you up." If they were going to do it today, perhaps they would be more accurate and tell the women in the audience that they want to "knock ... you up."
Ugh. Woody Allen has a new companion in the list of all-time Hollywood sleazebags.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Is Google Melting Down?
The Blogger service, which hosts this blog, has always been accessible for the little bit of blogging that I want to do. However, I've always been aware that, if I were ever to become a serious blogger, I'd have to find a different service, because you always get what you pay for in a free service.
Ann Althouse, a law professor at Wisconsin, is finding that out the hard way right now. Althouse's blog was probably the most popular destination on all of Blooger, and certainly one of the best sources for following the contretemps in Wisconsin politics this year. But Blogger has removed her blog -- the whole blog. To add insult to injury, Google representatives have been mocking her as she has been trying to have the blog restored. All in all, Google has suddenly been revealed as a very unsavory cxompany with which to be doing business.
Open the floodgates, and let's get away before they come for us next!
Expect to see Althouse re-emerege shortly on somewhere like Pajamas Media. Meanwhile, it's time for all the rest of us who use Google for any key applications and have taken advantage of its free service for years to find a more reliable alternative.
Ann Althouse, a law professor at Wisconsin, is finding that out the hard way right now. Althouse's blog was probably the most popular destination on all of Blooger, and certainly one of the best sources for following the contretemps in Wisconsin politics this year. But Blogger has removed her blog -- the whole blog. To add insult to injury, Google representatives have been mocking her as she has been trying to have the blog restored. All in all, Google has suddenly been revealed as a very unsavory cxompany with which to be doing business.
Open the floodgates, and let's get away before they come for us next!
Expect to see Althouse re-emerege shortly on somewhere like Pajamas Media. Meanwhile, it's time for all the rest of us who use Google for any key applications and have taken advantage of its free service for years to find a more reliable alternative.
Monday, March 07, 2011
Egypt
If Obama can claim any foreign policy successes at this point, Egypt would probably be his best bet.
Not sure Lara Logan would agree, though.
Not sure Lara Logan would agree, though.
The Libya Disaster
Does anyone think there is an easy way forward in Libya? Anyone? Bueller?
America's principles would call for us to support the rebels trying to overthrow the crazed Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. But most Democrats threw out those principles when they called America's battle to remove the crazed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein "immoral" and "a war crime." And now the Democrats are running the country.
In a replay of Jimmy Carter, circa 1979, look for America to be slow to help people who like us and quick to support rebels who don't like us.
Of course, because Obama's groupies were made up of the same loony lefties who claimed that we went into Iraq simply to steal its oil, a blatant falsehood perpetrated by unserious people (such as Obama himself), look for the soaring price of oil to fail to trigger any alarms in the White House. Except that now those groupies worship the One, the Only, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama . . . and he's certain to be a one-termer if he doesn't do something about the soaring cost. What will he do?
Vote "present", of course.
America's principles would call for us to support the rebels trying to overthrow the crazed Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. But most Democrats threw out those principles when they called America's battle to remove the crazed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein "immoral" and "a war crime." And now the Democrats are running the country.
In a replay of Jimmy Carter, circa 1979, look for America to be slow to help people who like us and quick to support rebels who don't like us.
Of course, because Obama's groupies were made up of the same loony lefties who claimed that we went into Iraq simply to steal its oil, a blatant falsehood perpetrated by unserious people (such as Obama himself), look for the soaring price of oil to fail to trigger any alarms in the White House. Except that now those groupies worship the One, the Only, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama . . . and he's certain to be a one-termer if he doesn't do something about the soaring cost. What will he do?
Vote "present", of course.
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