Self Worship or Self Parody?

You decide. . .

Live Earth Update

Flipped on the Live Earth Hypocri-thon just long enough to be encouraged by Ludacris to turn down my thermostat.

Yep. The owner of numerous homes, including a 15,000 square foot estate in Atlanta featuring an indoor basketball court and movie theater with lighted marquee and posters, wants me to throttle back on the comfort a little.

Uh, sure, Ludi. Thanks, for that.

I only had to watch the thing for 90 seconds to get a full and spectacular encapsulation of Gore’s comic/tragic farce.

By the way, I did just as Ludacris requested. I went over to my thermostat and turned it “down” kicking the A/C on and increasing my comfort level a bit. My carbon footprint is now up to 1/10,000th the size of his.

Here on Live Earth Concert Day. . .

Mark Steyn is concerned that his grandchildren will never get to see some of the wonders our generation has taken for granted. For example:

 I worry that my grandchildren will never know the thrill of being hectored by Bono and Bob Geldof, and that many already rare species will simply vanish from the earth - Seventies supergroups who’ve not yet had a long-awaited charity-gala reunion, hot young acts who haven’t had the chance to cover “Imagine” with the lights down and everybody in the stadium holding disposable lighters. . .

Read the whole funny thing here.

Celebrity Worship Syndrome—Case Study #2

The all-time low point for CWS and for Western Civilization in general may have come on the day the Michael Jackson was declared not guilty on child molestation charges in a California court.

The street outside the L.A. courthouse and the gates of Jackson’s Neverland Ranch became magnets for weak-minded people desperately in need of a life and a little perspective.

If you have a strong stomach and/or a high pain threshhold, here’s a link for a look back at the circus:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=699377n

And then there’s this:

As an antidote, you may want to watch this segment from Jimmy Kimmel’s show where he had a fake reporter at the trial vigil goofing on the fans. (Warning: some off-color humor)

Celebrity Worship Syndrome: Case Study #1

Here’s a grown man . . . a very creepy grown man . . . with nothing better to do than show up at a Paris Hilton incarceration-related news conference and hold up a sign. Keep in mind that this loser actually had to take the time to make the sign before heading out.

Then, when it is announced that Paris was heading back to jail to serve out her term . . . Well, the rest is Celebrity Worship history:

Does Sleaze Become Us?

Myrna Blythe shares a few thoughts on our culture of celebrity worship vis a viz the Paris Hilton thing.

Angelina Jolie: Intolerant Hypocrite

Angelina Jolie is promoting a film about freedom of the press. And is censoring press interviews and coverage.

Nice.

Intolerance of unpopular views continues to rise among the Hollywood left.

A Public Spectacle Hall of Fame

The folks at USA Today have compiled a list of the 25 most spectacular on-camera self-immolations by famous people over the last 25 years.

If it left you staring at your television in slack-jawed wonderment. . . If it prompted you to turn to your spouse and say, “That did NOT just happen!”. . . then you might find it on this list.

Are there any missing entries? I would have to nominate the Ashley Simpson/Saturday Night Live lip-syncing debacle.  I’m sure a few others will come to mind. How about you?

Okay, So Now It’s Happened Twice

Rosie O’Donnell; March 2007; The View

“I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.”

 April 2007;

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A heavily traveled section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and erupted into flames, authorities said. Flames shot 200 feet in the air and the heat was intense enough to melt part of the freeway and cause the collapse. . .

They’re Not Worthy

Coming soon. A desperately needed antidote for the most pervasive disease of our time—CWS (Celebrity Worship Syndrome). Also known as “a pathetic lack of any semblence of a life.”