Dinner Party Talk – For your weekend

#Winning. Oh, Charlie Sheen. You’re a train wreck. I feel bad for you, but I feel worse for us. Why do we have this fascination with watching celebrities crumble? This week, in his 352nd “exclusive”, Charlie told Life & Style Magazine, “I’m really starting to lose my mind… My lawyer wants to come over to my house and take the bullets out of my gun.” Um, that’s a good idea.
Repost. If you’re a Facebooker, you might have seen this posted: “Charlie Sheen, 47, is all over the news because he’s a celebrity drug addict. While Andrew Wilfahrt, 31, Brian Tabada, 21, Rudolph Hizon, 22, Chauncy Mays, 25, Christopher G. Stark, 22 are all soldiers who gave their lives this week with no media mention.”
Speaking of Facebook. A new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says that two-thirds of divorce lawyers are now using Facebook as the “primary source” of evidence in divorce proceedings. According to The Guardian, the site is “a leading cause of relationship trouble.”
Kentucky yucky. Kentucky Republican Senator Mike Harmon wants to make it legal for Christian students to bully gay kids about their sexuality. He’s filed an amendment to an anti-bullying bill saying students should be allowed to condemn other students’ sexual preferences as long as the expression of a religious belief does not include physical harm. Seriously? Is this what we need to make our country better?
I’ve got gas. I don’t know about you, but these gas prices are giving me cramps. In the last two weeks, the average price of regular gasoline in the United States has jumped 33 cents per gallon. If this isn’t a rallying cry for alternative energies, I don’t know what is.
Parents of the Year. According to AOL News, a Georgia couple has pleaded guilty to having their 14-year-old daughter perform “sexual favors” for a 67-year-old manager of a car dealership so they could skip a few payments for their 1998 Dodge Caravan! The monthly payment was $281. These people are dumber than a bucket of mud. Who’d pay $281 a month for a 1998 Dodge Caravan?!
Cut it out! First, San Francisco outlawed plastic bags, then the Happy Meal, and now? Have you heard about the San Francisco man who is, um, heading up an effort to outlaw male circumcision in the city? Yep, Lloyd Schofield says he’s already collected half of the required signatures to put the issue on the city’s November ballot.
In honor of Women’s History Month, the shortest joke ever: A dyslexic walks into a bra.
Now, eat your dinner.