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Posted on 02.02.12 by Danny Glover @ 8:31 pm
We have a 12-year-old son, so we know this look: But euthanasia isn’t the answer. Divine parental intervention works just fine. For those who may not be familiar with The Onion, it’s a satire publication. No actual children were harmed in the making of this fake news report. Many of the stories at The Onion are laced with vulgarity, so I won’t link to it. But I do enjoy some of their videos and stories. This satire poking fun at The Huffington Post today has less mainstream appeal than the video about a young girl’s texting-induced coma, but media junkies like me got a kick out of it:
That’s an exaggerated portrait of how many “news” organizations work these days. Filed under: Business and Culture and Entertainment and Just For Laughs and Media and Technology and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.11.12 by Danny Glover @ 12:30 pm
Hollywood plans to send a sad but true statement next week about the vulgar realities of today’s modern family. ABC will air an episode of “Modern Family” about a 2-1/2-year-old toddler who says the dirtiest of dirty words. “We thought it was a very natural story since, as parents, we’ve all been through this,” the show’s creator, Steve Levitan, said in defending the storyline. Levitan’s explanation stretches credibility. His latest envelope-pushing plot is more a case of crude Hollywood social engineers trying to shove society further down the road of immorality than “entertainment” reflecting a norm. But he’s not too far ahead of the reality curve. I’ve documented America’s seemingly perpetual slide into the pit of profanity on this blog:
Too many people think it’s cool, creative and comical to cuss. There is almost no circumstance where uttering a bad word is considered a bad thing. In that atmosphere, it is inevitable that men like Levitan will see how far they can go to make their black mark on society. I wish Simon Cowell’s attitude held more sway in Hollywood and reality. He is determined to produce family entertainment free of swearing. But when it comes to language, George Carlin is the hero. His admirers won’t rest until everyone from toddlers to grannies utter all seven of his dirty words (and then some) with reckless abandon at home, in school, on the job and across the airwaves. Filed under: Culture and Entertainment and Parenting and People and Religion Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 01.06.12 by Danny Glover @ 9:17 pm
I remember going to a Jay Leno performance in Morgantown, W.Va., back in 1990. I enjoyed the show immensely, and so did thousands of other fans. Somehow I doubt Leno would be welcomed back with open arms to the home of West Virginia University now after his joke last night at the expense of WVU and West Virginians. About six minutes into his monologue, Leno took this potshot at me and my peeps:
The ignorant and stereotypical wisecrack drove many West Virginians to Leno’s Facebook page and to Twitter, where they have been voicing complaints about his attack on the people of the great Mountain State. Here’s a sampling of the responses: (more…) Filed under: Entertainment and Hatin' On Rednecks and Just For Laughs and Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: 7 Comments |
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Posted on 12.15.11 by Danny Glover @ 5:31 pm
Finally, some enlightened entertainment for rednecks! MeatEater, a new series that premieres Jan. 1 on the Sportsman Channel, will unabashedly celebrate the carnivorous lifestyle combined with the sheer joy of hunting and bagging your own game.
The bad news: We have Comcast, and a colleague of mine just noted on Facebook that Comcast doesn’t offer the Sportsman Channel. How unenlightened! Filed under: Entertainment and Hunting & Guns and Rednecks Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:13 pm
In the movies, actor Shia LaBeouf is a fearless hero who fights giant machines. But in real life, the star of the “Transformers” movies is a sissy boy who throws coffee on harmless photographers and then flees like a coward. Optimus Prime he is not. LaBeouf’s public display of wimpiness came as Hollywood brought the “Transformers” series to the nation’s capital this week to film scenes for “Transformers: The Dark of the Moon.” The appearance led to another embarrassing incident on the streets of Washington, though District of Columbia police were the ones embarrassed. A D.C. police vehicle sped through the on-street set in perfectly bad timing, right into the path of one of the star robotic characters in the movie series, Bumblebee. Watch the accident unfold:
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Maybe the entertainment celebrities should stay on the West Coast. We have enough trouble with the political celebrities in Washington. Filed under: Entertainment and Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.01.10 by Danny Glover @ 8:01 am
About six weeks from now, Americans will get a fiscal wake-up call in the form of a new documentary titled “I Want Your Money.” I love that it’s being released just before the election — the perfect time to remind taxpayers how Washington has robbed them over the past two years — and I hope it’s enough to make voters take a throw-the-spending-bums-out stand at the ballot box. Here’s the trailer to the movie. Spread it far and wide, and invite your friends to go see it: Filed under: Entertainment and Government and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.23.10 by Danny Glover @ 10:58 pm
Earlier this year, I earned my 15 seconds of fame in the international spotlight when BBC interviewed me about the meaning of the word redneck. I owe it all to comedian Robin Williams, whose jab at Australia as the home of English rednecks triggered an Australian attack on Alabama. Now Williams is set to tour Australia, and he wants to make sure the Aussies and everyone else involved knows he was just doing his job — telling jokes and making people laugh. “That was pretty bizarre. I was like: ‘Wow! I’ve started an international incident! I don’t want to cause a war between Alabama and Australia — please no!’” Filed under: Entertainment and Hatin' On Rednecks and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Rednecks Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.13.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:19 pm
I have no particular reason for posting this video other than the obvious — it’s a tiger riding a horse! You just don’t see that every day, so enjoy seeing it today on this blog: Filed under: Entertainment and Human Interest and Video and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.12.10 by Danny Glover @ 9:54 pm
Sheer genius. I wish our minivan had a DVD player just so I could play this video repeatedly on our next road trip when one of the kids “breaks wind” and forces us to roll down the windows for fresh air. It’s the only sure-fire way to get me to stop so the culprit can take a bathroom break. Filed under: Entertainment and Family and Just For Laughs and Music and Redneck Humor and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.09.10 by Danny Glover @ 7:31 am
Only bits and pieces of this video (and the lyrics) resemble my “Dad Life” — there’s not a laptop, recliner or iPhone to be found — but I like it anyway. I do know this: I’d like to have a yard big enough to justify buying an awesome riding mower like the one in the video. I hate cutting the grass with my puttering push mower, but if I had a sweet, more-power ride like that, I’d be all into manicuring my “man-scape.” Filed under: Entertainment and Just For Laughs and Parenting and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.07.10 by Danny Glover @ 11:22 pm
We want our children to get an education without being subjected to all the stressful and counterproductive pressures of a system created by the government and run by bureaucrats. Watch the trailer for the documentary “Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture” for a glimpse of what formal education has become: To be fair, part of me wonders, after watching the video, whether the bigger problem is that we have reared a generation of whiny kids who cry “Woe is me!” because they have to do homework to get ahead. But I also think this is a valid point:
Teaching done right will make children love to learn, and loving parents focused on educating just a few children can do the job better than most “trained” teachers in today’s schools. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Entertainment and News & Politics and Parenting and Video and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.26.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:23 pm
Country musicians have a twisted knack for making violence seem amusing. The latest entry in this niche music genre is the song “Pray For You,” by Jaron and the Long Road to Love. Here are the deadly wishes for a wife scorned from the chorus alone: “I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill. I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to. I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls. I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls. I pray all your dreams never come true. Just know wherever you are, honey, I pray for you.” I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help but smile, especially when I watch the video. I unsuccessfully fought the same urge — being entertained by violent, sometimes deadly fantasies set to catchy music rather than offended by them — when The Dixie Chicks released “Goodbye Earl” and when Carrie Underwood’s tune “Before He Cheats” rose to the top of the charts. The latter is still one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite singers. Enjoy these online encore performances: Filed under: Entertainment and Just For Laughs and Music and Redneck Music and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 06.23.10 by Danny Glover @ 8:01 pm
It wasn’t long ago, maybe six months, that I incessantly teased my wife for playing Farmville on Facebook. The game looked lame. Who wants to waste time plowing digitally, planting and harvesting virtual crops, and collecting electronic feathers from chickens and milk from cows? Then, amidst the tedious hours of unemployment, I started playing Farmville because I had way too much time to waste. I was hooked, even worse than my wife (and our young children, who began playing the role of hired farm hands when Mommy grew bored with the game). I’ve been gainfully employed for several months now, and I’m still playing Farmville! My addiction is so strong that my wife has been feeding it by buying new Farmville goodies at 7-Eleven, including this Super Big Gulp cup that won me a pool-diving cow for my farm:
Fortunately, my boss, David All, is a big believer in the potential of social gaming to boost corporate and political brands. PR Week recently published his essay on the subject, and I am now one of the team members at the David All Group brainstorming ways to use social gaming as a promotional tool. So Farmville is now both work and entertainment. It’s a sweet assignment. Filed under: Business and Culture and Entertainment and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.16.10 by Danny Glover @ 2:21 pm
Like most of America’s official recognitions of God, the National Day of Prayer now at the center of a legal dispute is rooted in the spiritual heyday of the post-World War II era. The day was first celebrated in 1952. I revisited the history of such “ceremonial deism” (the Supreme Court’s term) in my 1999 “Congress Back Then” column for IntellectualCapital.com, and I am reprinting it here to offer some context for the current debate about the National Day of Prayer. Congress Back Then: America’s Spiritual Heyday Earlier this year, policymakers, pundits and people on the street reopened a uniquely American (and seemingly infinite) debate. In the wake of another incident of school violence, this time a mass murder at a high school in Littleton, Colo., they pondered a familiar question: Just how far should our nation go in trying to maintain a clear separation between church and state? Congress debated the question in mid-June and decided that perhaps we had gone too far. More specifically, House lawmakers saw a need for a greater religious presence in the public schools, so they cast a series of votes designed to give new spiritual direction to the nation’s youth. The most-publicized decision: They sanctioned the posting of the Bible’s Ten Commandments on school walls. The primarily symbolic votes topped the news of the week, not at all surprising in an era when Americans are sharply divided on the relationship between religion and government. But four decades back, the votes might have gone unnoticed, an unremarkable act at a time when Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, and made the phrase “In God We Trust” the national motto and a mandatory slogan on all U.S. coins and currency. All of that religious posturing, and more, happened during the presidency of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and in the early days of a Cold War that most patriotic Americans apparently saw as a battle between Christian America and the godless, communist Soviet Union. Filed under: Books and Culture and Entertainment and History and News & Politics and People and Religion Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.08.10 by Danny Glover @ 1:06 am
John King of CNN asked Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who once held the post Steele now does at the Republican National Committee, whether Steele is held to a “different standard” because of the color of his skin. Barbour answered by reminding King of his own political handicap:
Ain’t that the truth! Oops, I forgot I ain’t s’posed to say “ain’t.” They taught us that in the Redneck School of Higher Standards. Filed under: Entertainment and News & Politics and People and Rednecks Comments: None |
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