Let's Get Mentally Challenged In Here!!!

You know the worst part of Obama's "Special Olympics" comment? Well, besides the fact that it opens the door for a shit-ton of conservative assholes to pout about how they can't use sexist/racist/insensitive terms without being called out on it, but certain people (women, blacks, liberals, Obama) can, even as Obama is indeed being called out on his comment. The thing that is worse is that people are acting like he's the only one who says stupid shit like this. People, we live in a society where only a few years ago, a very popular musical group put out a damn song called, "Let's Get Retarded" and some people thought it was dumb and unnecessary for them to re-edit the song as "Let's Get It Started". Even some of the most politically aware people I know have said they "felt like a retard" after doing something dumb or called someone "retarded" because that person did something stupid. Not saying it makes it right, not saying I'm not guilty of it myself, nor am I saying President Obama shouldn't be called out on it the same way we would have called out Dubya for it. Just saying that I hope all this furor goes to actually eliminating the attitude that makes anyone think it's okay to talk like this.

And while we're at it, can we also work on dismissing the word "gay" as some kind of negative descriptor as well? Am I asking too much, y'all?

I actually didn't even watch the Leno thing. I forgot all about it. Now that I don't have TruTV crime shows to fall asleep to, I've taken to watching the CW's late night airings of Sex & the City. I find these women almost completely insufferable. Carrie is such a self-centered flighty twit, Samantha's sex kitten tries to hard, and Charlotte...well, I actually like Charlotte. I think I still love Kristin Davis for her days on Melrose Place. (Remember, she's the only one that dies when Kimberly blew up the apartment complex.) Miranda is a big-mouth, obnoxious bitch. I'm at season where she dumped Blair Underwood for her babydaddy Steve (yeah, that would happen...NOT) and they've bought a house in Brooklyn. Well, they bought the house in Brooklyn after she whined about giving up her Manhattan lifestyle for 30 years. Also, Samantha survived cancer or "The Big C" which they seem to have to point out every 5 minutes. Meanwhile, she's "cougaring" with some young male model dude. Carrie is dating The Russian which is exactly how she refers to him with her friends. He even comes up as "Russian" on her bejeweled cellphone's caller ID. Do all her boyfriends end up with code names like "Big" and "The Russian"?

All that complaining and I know all that because I have watched it every night this week. Hell, sometimes I stay up and watch the second episode (which oddly is on a different season). I even occasionally flip between the CW episodes and the TBS episodes if they're on at the same time. What can I say? I have to watch something before I can float off to LaLaLand and QVC doesn't always cut it.

I suppose I should, like, work or something.