SETH ROGEN: when we’re having sex and she’s unconscious like you can literally feel the audience thinking, like, how the fuck are they going to make this okay? Like, what can possibly be said or done that I’m not going to walk out of the movie theater in the next thirty seconds? . . . And then she says, like, the one thing that makes it all okay:

BRANDI: “Why are you stopping, motherfucker?”

When your best friend, drunk out of his mind, and hardly able to stand, implores you to hand him the car keys, do you give them to him? Of course you don’t.

Then what is so funny/OK about fucking a drunk out of her mind, pill popping, alcoholic after she vomits all over herself, when she momentarily arouses from her stupor to tell you to go on?

Answer, nothing. It’s called rape, there is no way you can spin this to make it alright.

I hope these men end up with someone’s dick up their ass one night when they’ve had too much tequila. OOPS. Do you think Seth Rogen would be eager to star in that movie? Warners Brothers so eager to distribute it?

Anna Faris, are you that desperate for work? Shame on you. Yes, and please don’t start on me for blaming the women. Shame, shame, shame on her.

I also hope this movie fails miserably, but given the searches for “rape”, “fun with rape”, “how to rape”, “how to get away with date rape” and so on that land here, a site which has some but not all that many posts in which the tags are rape, rape culture, or date rape, I fear the worst. Warner Brothers probably did their research based on internet search terms.

Or should I say, snap out of it.

So, while Google’s blocking your attempt to access “a dispatch from Beijing-based journalist Mara Hvistendahl about ordinary Chinese laborers trying to catch a glimpse of the opening ceremonies” offered up at The Plank and you’re trying to find a work around, or while you’re comforting Elisabeth Edwards over at her Daily Kos blog post, remember LaVena Johnson, be aware of the military onslaught of Russia in Georgia.

An more importantly, don’t forget to catch up with Former “Idol” star Clay Aiken and his new son.

It’s a beautiful morning.

Peace

Consequently, when news is made on any of the above subjects I can’t help but devour it.

The first scientist they tried to pin the antrhax on, Steven J. Hatfill, the one they spent years investigating, hounding, to death, ruining his life, recently settled a lawsuit with the Justice department for millions. They moved on to another researcher Bruce E. Ivins. He died yesterday of an overdose of prescription drugs just as they were “closing in”, planning to prosecute with a whole lot of new evidence.

In this report from ABC news I read:

A social worker named Jean Duley had filed a protection order against Ivins last month, alleging that he had made “threats of homicidal intent” in mid-July. The court documents also indicate that Ivins had been admitted to a hospital in the area and was under psychiatric care.

“Client has a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, actions, plans threats & actions toward therapist [sic]. Dr. David Irwin his psychiatrist called him homicidal, sociopathic, with clear intentions,” a handwritten page submitted with the application stated.

My question, and I’m sure it’s your question as well, is this. Are they trying to tell me that the same government who knew everything they wanted to know about anybody they wanted to know it about (at least since the tights and beret wearing beatniks are communist era), hired a man to work with a biological weapon of mass destruction not knowing his history?

Or are you telling me they hired a man to work with biological weapons of mass destruction despite knowing his questionable mental status?

* throws hands up in the air*

Go away.

Just doesn’t make sense to me.

“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.”

Daniel Moynihan

Either the government is more ignorant than I feared or this poor researcher was a convenient patsy.

It sucks either way we look at it.