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June 15, 2005 As Gomer Pyle would shout, Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! The list of the Ten Favorite Celebrity Athletes was topped by Tiger Woods. Michael Jordan is number two, ending his thirteen-year reign at the top spot. But the surprise lies in who came in at number ten: None other than San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Lamar Bonds. The rest of the list, in order from 3-9: Brett Favre, Derek Jeter, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Shaq, Kobe Bryant (talk about an image makeover!), LeBron James and Jeff Gordon. I was also surprised not to find Miami Heat star and family man Dwyane Wade on the list. No T.O.? No surprise. BET should canccl its smut-based, exercise in debauchery “Uncut.” The show airs at 3 a.m. PDT and features near X-rated music videos. The show is nothing more than an ass shaking contest featuring scantily clad, black women with oversized asses simulating sex acts and posing with rappers who are all about bling, booty and bad rides. BET may not be ashamed at the images of these “vide-hoes,” but they obviously feel guilty, as they follow up that raunchfest with a show from televangelist Robert “Send me your money and I’ll pray you get rich” Tilton. VH1s recent special and the tell-all book “Confessions of A Vide Vixen,”(by Karine “Superhead” Steffans) reveal a behind the scenes look rooted in sex, alcohol, harassment and misguided dreams of fame. The “Tip Drill” video from rapper Nelly is an outright disgrace and includes a scene where he swipes a credit card between a woman’s mammoth cheeks—and not the ones on her face. The punchline to the song goes, “It must be your ass ‘cause it can’t be your face, I need a tip drill.” While I like some rap, this is the kind of imagery that draws flak for all artists of this genre. By the way, a “tip drill” is ------- 14-year old Houston native Gabriel Granillo was attacked by a mob of twenty or so gang members and stabbed to death. The alleged killer is a 16-17 year old white femalel. Granillo is allegedly affiliated with the notorious Latino gang MS-13. However, witnesses said Garanillo arrived at the park with two friends and was armed with a baseball bat. Witnesses added, that the kids involved were “wilding” in the neighborhood—breaking out car windows and slashing tires, for “an intense 10 minutes…It just kept going back and forth." And they say that the children are our future…sheesh. I thought by now that Ken Hughes would have made a triumphant return back to the UK site. Looks like I was wrong…by the way, other columnists who are listed as “missing in action” simply do not post as regularly as they once did. Someone posted in the rebuttal section that people were leaving the site because of the insults that were bandied about by a few columnists (my name was mentioned). In reality, those who bitch and bemoan the insults should have looked in the mirror: They were the ones who began the name-calling and offensive rhetoric. And by the way, its cowardly to post under an anonymous moniker. Grow a pair, okay? A middle school teacher in the Omaha Public School system was suspended when she had her students write an essay on how they would kill someone…a Bay Area teacher was suspended for bringing an M-16 to school, which he claimed he had been doing for years…and we have yet, more cases of teachers having sexual relations with their students. I guess schools really doprepare you for life. I did some research on phobias for a book I’m writing and found these gems: Agliophobia- Fear of pain. (Could this be what some of the UK “retirees” were suffering from, Tom?) Wait a minute, maybe they had Allodoxaphobia (the fear of opinions). Obviously, some were afflicted with Catagelophobia, which is the fear of being ridiculed. Perhaps some of UKs resident atheists as children suffered from a fear of priests or sacred things, (hierophobia), or even homilophobia (Fear of sermons. I must ad mit, that I fear long ones). Finally here’s one I’m throwing out for the hell of it: Novercaphobia: Fear of your step-mother. Here’s some interesting information I ran across: “Although 22 percent of all American adults say that they have a close relative who is married to someone of a different race, and 76 percent of Americans see no problems with blacks and whites dating, senior citizens are far behind the tolerance curve. Only half of those who were adults during World War II agree interracial dating is okay… Acceptance of interracial dating is greatest among the young. In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2003, fully 91% of Gen Y respondents born after 1976 said that interracial dating is acceptable…(of) those reaching adulthood during WWII, only 50% expressed this view. Those born between 1928 and 1945, the pre-boomers, were more tolerant, with 60% agreeing mixed-race dating is acceptable…Also, blacks (91%) and Hispanics (90%) are more accepting of interracial dating than are non-Hispanic whites (71%). (Source: Lee, Sharon M. and Barry Edmonston. New Marriages, New Families: U.S. Racial and Hispanic Intermarriage. 2005. Population Bulletin, 60(2) (Washingont, DC: Population Reference Bureau). Boy, I would love to hear Ken’s take on this! ------------ About the author: Timothy N. Stelly, Sr. is a 46-year old poet, novelist and aspiring screenwriter who resides in northern California with his three youngest children--Lawrence, Kimberly and Dante. He is a member of various writer's groups and has three novels in print, his most recent, "Like A Straight-Up Sucka," is available at www.lulu.com. website: http://stellbreadO@tripod.com Email: stellbread@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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