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This Girl Needs to Get A Life

It amazes me how much time the conservative guardians of our culture obsess over Hollywood movies putting themselves firmly in the camp the worst of our tabloid/celebrity obsessed society.

Take this piece of drivel from a member of the WSJ's editorial board:

DE GUSTIBUS

A Lady's Lament
Where have all the Hollywood hunks gone?

BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Friday, March 3, 2006 12:01 a.m.

This year I plan to conduct my own Academy Awards. And in my newly created category of "Best Red-Blooded Male," I regret to say that I can offer up only one nominee: King Kong.

Where have all the tough guys gone? Really, it's enough to make you cry--that is, if all our leading men weren't already doing it for me. From its earliest days Hollywood has had a glorious tradition of punch-throwing, gun-toting, testosterone-oozing leading men, and the world has loved every one of them. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Sly Stallone, Mel Gibson, these were men. ....

And today? These marvelous males have given way to a new generation of Hollywood consumptives, metrosexuals if you will, the most solid thing about whom are their perky cheekbones. Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Leo DiCaprio, Adrien Brody, Ashton (Ashton!) Kutcher. I make it a general rule to withhold my regard from any man I could bench-press on a feeble day, much less those who've never had need of a razor. If producers are wondering why box-office sales keep falling, they might consider that America wants something more from its men than pouty lips and foot-long eyelashes. .....

..... Even women came to appreciate the, ahem, upside to testosterone-flicks. I know girls who will admit that they own "Top Gun" for the sole purpose of watching the volleyball scene over and over. (you go girls and what activity pray tell, accompanied the loop of the volleyball scene)

.... Take a look at the guys who are up for Oscar nominations, and let's go immediately to the elephant in the room. Three--count 'em, three--are there for playing men who bat for the other team. Yes, yes, I loved both "Brokeback Mountain" and "Capote," but that's not the point. ....

Oh, and Vin Diesel rocks.

Where is the next generation of tough guys? They're out there. They hat goes off to Bruce Willis, ..., I find myself grateful to Matt Damon, who had the courage to make two old-fashioned spy thrillers ....

My dear lady you need to get a life. Leave the office, leave the house, turn off the dvd player and go find a real relationship with a living breathing man. Oh, take down the screensaver of Vin Diesel too. I never know members of the editorial board of the WSJ spent their free time ogling tabloid magazines.,,,,Who knows it might actually be more fun going with the ape, give it a try girl.

I guess Kimberly will be one of the first to sign up for CBS new service of sending text messages with updates from Entertainment Tonight for only $3.99 a message. I'm also sure she'll turn down the $.99 per message service with headlines from CBS news.

btw Kimberly, are the female staffers at the WSj referred to as "girls" ?

Rad Dude : We're More Serious Than Harvard Students...and we get to Surf the Waves at Malibu Pier at Lunchtime

another beaut from the WSJ's Opinion Journal

If the Democratic Party chooses to look more like the Harvard faculty than America, voters have a ready alternative in the Republican Party. Academia is the left's biggest remaining redoubt, but here too there may be alternatives. During our vacation we paid a call on Ken Starr, dean of the law school at Pepperdine University, and he told us with great enthusiasm of how undergraduates on campus were doing serious work--actually studying great books, no less.

ah yes, the world class library, the top students in america, the state of the art research laboratories, the bookstores, classical music concerts, lectures from world renowned visitors.....and happy hour at Duke's of Malibu. Clearly Pepperdine is the next Harvard. Hey, you might even catch a movie star on line in front of you at the Malibu Village Starbucks.

but they do have a world class.....golf team

Now I Know Why the Recovery of New Orleans is Going So Slowly

According to Daniel Henninger in his appropriately titled WSJ column "Wonderland",t he problem for the recovery in New Orleans is not the absolute incompetence at all levels of government or the paltry federal response since W's phot op speech in New Orleans when he pledged to do whatever is necessary for the city's recovery.

The real problem ?

New Orleans even now can't get out from under the initial crazy statements the pols were hurling over Katrina.

Excuse me, but I'm not even sure of this bizarro world logic. Does he mean that with the Rep House subcommittee calling the government response horrific and the WH report focusing on "the lessons that can be learned for the future", that it's no wonder that most of the city is still in shambles ? I guess you have to reside in wonderland/bizarro world to understand that one.

Does that mean we have to have a campaign to "get New Orleans out from under ceazy statments" before we get to work on getting them out of the mud and debris ?

and this guy is deputy editor of the WSJ !!!

Do they start with their martinis over there at  8 am or 8: 30 ?

Opinion Journal of the WSJ Crude Spin Cycle On High Speed

The 25 yr old editor of the Opinion Journal apparently hasn't learned much other than to spin usually it's so pathetic it's not worth commenting upon. Here's an example of his "gotcha" with the nyt

Why the Delay? No, Wait! Why the Hurry?

"Let's see. The vice president of the United States accidentally shot someone while bird-hunting on a Texas ranch. It took the White House nearly 24 hours to share that information with the rest of the nation. . . . The rest of the world might have been in the dark forever if Ms. Armstrong had not chosen to share the news with a reporter from the paper in Corpus Christi."--editorial, New York Times, Feb. 14

" 'Ultimately, I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry,' Mr. Cheney said, appearing a bit shaken in a hastily arranged interview on Fox News to provide his version of events in a just-the-facts monotone."--news story, New York Times, Feb. 16

Sorry my friend James, but if you delay telling the public of the incident, underestimating the blowback (including the above cited editorial) it is wuite likely that 4 days later folks in the WH will prevail upon you to make an appearance before the public at which point you aides hastily arrange (4 days later) an interview with the friendly face of Brit Hume on Fox News.

Sorry, there is absolutely no contadiction at all between the two citations from the NYT.

And is the good editor of the WSJ's Opinion Journal implying that a newspaper's editorial page and news section should speak with a unified voice ? Those that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones (and check out some of my WSJ posts)  is all I can say on that one.