Harvey Weinstein's Wife - The Rat Deserts the Sinking Shit

What was wrong with this picture? What was RIGHT with it?

There are no surprises in this world. We all know that ugly rich fat executives are often PIGS. We know that the "casting couch" still exists. We know that people of either sex in power positions tend to be arrogant and abusive.

We're supposed to be SHOCKED...SHOCKED...that a woman who obviously married for MONEY is now walking away from a guy who just lost his job? Take a look at that photo again. The caption from her doesn't read: "He's SO handsome, he's SO young, and Holy Moses, I'd marry this Jew if he was just a waiter at the Second Avenue Deli."

Just as we ALL know that some movie moguls have no manners or morality, we ALL know that a beautiful young woman does NOT marry an ugly old man unless he's RICH.

Harvey still has his Academy Awards but not his trophy wife from the Stepford Collection.

Oh, the lessons we've learned. Movie producers can still be nasty. Actresses can still be stupid. Rich bitches can still marry for money.

Elizabeth Taylor once said that "fame is a good deodorant." But when you're famous for being a stinkier...well, even Lisa Bloom (the shark lawyer who went after Cosby) suddenly backed away from a big payday. She left faster than you could say "hypocrite." Harvey sent emails to all his bigshot pals begging them for a break...and they all came back "Mailbox Full Of It." He's supposedly now in the Anthony Weiner Wing of some "Sex Addiction" clinic, wondering how long it'll be...when it gets sucked again. Or, "When's my COMEback?"

All that we've seen over the past few days with the Great Harvey Scandal, is that human nature doesn't change. Rich people are abusive. Sometimes they get taken down. Nobody knows you when you're down and out. Your friends will turn around and stab you in the back. And the wife who thought you looked like potato salad in a suit is taking you to the cleaners.

Breastfeeding : The New Yorker goes Gawker

In case you don't know by now, breastfeeding is perfectly natural.

In case you also don't know by now, The New Yorker needs your money. So do all the other starving newsstand magazines. This is because it's perfectly natural for people to get their reading FREE online.

Pssst, The New Yorker, anyone can Google "lactation" or "milk spurting" and see much, much more interesting pictures than your pretentious hack photographer is offering.

How ironic that The New York tries to get people to buy their mag...by TWEETING

Remember when The New Yorker was known for its articles? For its cartoons? Now it's trying for soft porn?

Is it "perfectly natural" for a woman to take off her dress when breastfeeding? Why is she in her panties? Does she have a slightly older child who is teething, and needs to gum her labia? Will that be in NEXT WEEK's issue?

The New Yorker may be hedging on how much anyone cares about a potato-faced movie mogul still playing the casting couch game. The New Yorker spent a lot of time and publicity on an expose of Harvey Weinstein but...aw, The New York Times did one, too. And once ANY reporting is out there, the Decider and Huffington and ALL the other news aggregates come in, freely quote all the "good parts," and steal away the precious banner ad money.

The New Yorker staff doesn't see the irony of any of this. And considering that the last funny guy there was Lee Lorenz, nobody at The New Yorker can see the humor in anything. Just look at their cartoons. So, when they discover that there was no sizable gain (like from C cup to D cup) for the breastfeeding issue, what WILL they do? Cry over spilt milk?

DOLPHINS FIRE A COACH...FOR DOING HIS JOB?

Aww, NFL players, TAKE A KNEE.

TAKE A KNEE for this POOR COACH.

The man is hired to be an OFFENSIVE coach. Here he is, being offensive, and he gets fired. v

He was doing a line. What's wrong with that?

OFFENSIVE LINE COACH, people.

You give the man a job to do, and he does it. What more can you ask?

KAEPERNICK TAKES A KNEE ... and a deep breath

Taking a knee. Hard twerk.

PETTY LARCENY - death becomes EBAY

The ghouls have all heard the news, so they're uploading their "GUARANTEED" signed TOM PETTY items.

Funny, how Tom's signature changes a little bit here and there. Fortunately, all the items have lines like "this was signed in person" and "this is a signature, not a pre-print." Any pictures of Tom actually signing these? Of course not.

At a time like this, sellers are taking a knee. Or rather, doing knee-jerk posting to grab quick sales. Many veterans of the game know to do "ONE DAY" specials. It's that first day of shock and awe that gets people to bid with their hearts, not their heads.

EBAY has that reputation (undeserved) for honesty. Surely, eBay doesn't allow forgeries. Surely, they also don't allow bootlegs and counterfeit Gucci bags and there are many safeguards in place. Ahem. As a VERO rep for some celebrity friends, I've seen many a bold forgery and many an outrageously bad one. I've seen reputable sellers (or ones who claim to be, and even have their own websites) selling forgeries. I've even bought a few to see how they did it. As in, "Was this a free-hand fake, or did they use Photoshop to trace a real signature and then print it onto a new photo." Very fascinating.

Maybe fans think that Tom Petty's wife is a VeRO (verified rights owner) rep on eBay and is, at this very moment, sending in DMCA's on the items she thinks are obvious forgeries.

A few wise, wise people bought their items from sellers who posted BEFORE Tom died. Surely, those all have to be the REAL DEAL. Sellers can't be so craven as to use scanning equipment to slap professional-looking genuine ink signatures on any photo or CD booklet or album cover they like. Surely, sellers couldn't keep making a living on eBay if they were known to be crooks...even if they use different selling names and routinely switch item locations around.

It's an odd form of mourning, to suddenly want a signature on something or other. You didn't want it before? You need it NOW? It's a tribute? It's a fantasy, like, "well, I was hoping to see him at a memorabilia show, or go to a concert sometime and wait at the stage door...." This is ink that came out of a pen. It's possible Tom Petty never even TOUCHED the item. No forensic scientist could lift a single fingerprint.

$250 for an autographed baseball? Do allow for the fact that the signature might NOT be completely accurate because the surface is round. $600 for an album jacket. A seller with 10 of them? Heck, he's a pro, he just waltzed over to Tom, and said, "Sign all these so I can make money," and Tom did it. Any excuse will do. And remember the seller who says "I guarantee this with my OWN "Certificate of Authenticity." If you can PROVE it's fake, you get your money back. I WON'T BACK DOWN! And I'll write on the envelope - HANDLE ME WITH CARE."

EFFECTIVE AGGRESSION

Social media today, is predictably full of two types of oh-so-helpful TWEETS.

One set gasp: "R.I.P." and "Bless the angels who perished" and "My heart goes out with condolences."

Another set gasp: "Where's gun control?" and "Isn't enough enough?"

And in a day or two, TWITTER will be back to its usual bird-brained nonsense. Nothing will change. The NRA is popular, gun owners are jittery about home invasion, and people are just plain stupid about locking up their weapons (the Adam Lanza case). Various states will happily allow people to openly carry weapons, not bother with background checks, and look the other way on Internet sales of assault weapons.

All that we have now, is the morbid curiosity of whether an incident of mass violence breaks any records. Wowie, folks. The Vegas killing tops the Miami killing for "worst gun tragedy in America." SO FAR.

So, despite a lack of effective aggression, some people will still grumble about gun control. Because they have to do SOMETHING to feel better for a little while. Or less angry.

Meanwhile, for a day or two, this incident has pushed aside the valiant brain-damaged millionaires in Spanx, who have taken a knee. We know all about them. At first they did it because the National Anthem was written by a racist and contained secret racist lyrics. When that stuff was disproved, it became, "no, no, we're taking a knee because black people are disproportionately getting shot by police. Especially blacks with police records as long as your arm."

Anyone want to at least toss in two words: Justine Damond? Nah. It's a black thing only. You wouldn't understand. Or care. About a white woman shot dead by a black cop in Minnesota. For no reason. Shit happens.

Let's take the spin away. If you drag your athletic ass over to St. Louis and march in the street after a racial incident, if you drag your athletic ass over to Baltimore, or anywhere that has seen an incident of race relations that offends you, then you are targeting racism. If you take a knee while the National Anthem plays and the flag waves, you are targeting America. The message you're sending is that you can't support this country, period.

The white Liberal millionaire actors and actresses, who go to an awards show and start grousing about their causes, are taking up their own time. They'd rather talk about a social issue than thank their parents and tell their kiddies "you can go to bed now," fine. They aren't disrespecting everything about their country.

Jim Brown, George Foreman and many others have stated that taking a knee for the flag and the National Anthem is simply NOT the way to get things done. The mother of Colin Kaepernick, the guy who started all this, felt the same way. But she's white. So she's part of the problem, as opposed to Colin's black father, who ran away before he was born.

Simply put, marching or taking a knee is not going to eradicate the problem of police violence As long as you have a man in uniform with a gun, and somebody coming toward him with bad intent, or seemingly bad intent, lethal tragedies will happen. Some by accident. Some on purpose.

But taking a knee? It's become a fad, like twerking. It's become ridiculous.

Three possibilities here. One, since this is private property, owners can demand the players abide by rules or leave. Two, the anthem could be retired; who said it has to be played before a sports event anyway? Third, let these people do as they please until they get bored with how useless the protest actually is.

Effective aggression. Taking a knee will not save a single life. Not one.

FUN WITH COLIN KAEPERNICK

As we see, everyone's TAKING A KNEE. It's become the new fad. It beats TWERKING.

Why, here's happy country singer Tift Merritt proud of teaching kiddies how to TAKE A KNEE. "Remember kids, the National Anthem is a horribly racist song. The guy who wrote it put racist messages into it. And don't believe that he was a lawyer who once went to court to free slaves!"

It's a good thing everyone's forgotten about Justine Damond, inconveniently shot by Mohamed Noor, a Somali-American Minneapolis Police. Or any other case of injustice or brutality against, oh, women, Latinos, gays, Jews, etc. etc. Or climate change, pollution, hunger, Boko Haram, slavery in Russia, etc. etc. This IS a "one issue" nation, and things won't get better till the National Anthem is replaced by, oh, something by Beyonce.

The NFL is full of sensitive people, you know. They abhor racism, or anything that might be considered offensive. Just ask the Washington REDSKINS.

Meanwhile...

Al seriousness aside, it's important to note that Colin Kaepernick couldn't possibly participate in a march. His knee isn't up to it.

He could've spent the off-season visiting schools and churches and speaking out at rallies. Since he wasn't such a good football player, he probably could've spent some time during the season expressing his opinion via YouTube videos or showing up at a trial where a police officer was accused of injustice. He might've simply sent a thank you note to his white adoptive parents, with a line reading, "You know America isn't THAT bad. Not every white person is racist. I surely don't want to send THAT message all over the world by taking a knee during the National Anthem of my country."

Surely, we ALL agree that when someone has personal beliefs, they should express them. Just ask the fine folks at Boko Haram, Hamas and ISIS.

A lot of cheerful white people are blinking brightly and saying, "This is a GOOD thing. Come on, People, protest is the American way!" To quote the fabulous Sarah Palin, YOU BETCHA!" Damn right. YOU BETCHA!

Hopefully in the future, EVERYONE will take an appropriate moment to talk about what bothers them.

How about, before the Asian waiter bring you that plate of Chow Fon, he takes a knee and says, "Last century, my people were practically slaves, building your damn railroad." And the waiter bringing you sushi? "My grandfather was forced out of his home because some idiots worried he might be a Japanese spy. I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN. I will keep taking this knee till your tempura gets cold!"

How about, before you pay for that pound of hamburger meat, the check-out girl takes a knee and says, "I'd like to take a minute to read to you from this PETA brochure."

Maybe your Indian cab driver will stop in traffic, leave the meter running for a minute and explain his anger over how he gets gets dirty looks from a lot of people who think he's Muslim.

Let's not think that any group has experienced injustice, certainly not the Native Americans who were pushed off every bit of their native land. Hell, they are respected with that beautiful looking mascot for the Cleveland Indians. And in Atlanta they grunt and do the "Tomahawk Chop." That could be more empathetic to the Redskins?

The waiter in the deli? He's ALMOST brought that over-stuffed pastrami sandwich to the table, along with that glass of Cel-Ray, but he's taken a knee. He says, "Did you know that Roger Waters and Peter Gabriel want to starve all the Jews in Israel with sanctions against them? That the little sliver of sand that the Jews have acquired after 2,000 years of persecution, extermination and slavery is in danger of being blown off the map?"

Dick Gregory said, "You see, we ALL have problems."

Everybody is dealing with something. Something that they feel isn't fair.

Or as Rodney Dangerfield put it, "No respect. No respect at all." Anyone see a whole lot of tolerance in this world?

Bob Dylan sang that we should "strengthen the things that remain." Jim Brown, a football player who lived in an era where the NFL was not 70% Black, thought taking a knee was disrespectful.

Perhaps some PC-minded people would think that since 70% of the population is NOT Black, maybe the NFL should show some DIVERSITY, and make it so that no running back was over 150 pounds, and these running backs were Asian, Jewish and Lesbian. Or all three.

George Foreman also thought "taking a knee" disrespectful and divisive. Do you know where "taking a knee" came from? It's in the sport of boxing. If you've been clobbered, you momentarily take a knee, to give yourself 9 seconds to clear your head. Guess what. George Foreman NEVER took a knee. Neither did Ali or Frazier or any of the greats.

Colin Kaepernick's mother went on record saying that taking a knee was not her idea of an effective way of protest. She's white, by the way. His father? He didn't even stick around for Colin's birth. But maybe he was protesting the fact that white women deliberately don't use the Pill when they should, and try to entrap the black man into marriage. Or something.

This is an angry country full of frustrated people. It's easier to hate than to love. It's easier for Colin Kaepernick to tell the world that some cops are quick on the trigger (as if that's a surprise. Ask Justin Damond's friends). It's not so easy for him to tell the world that a white couple raised him as their own and gave him every opportunity to find acceptance and prosperity.

Colin could also protest by changing his name from Colin Kaepernick, which is so WHITE and hard to spell, to COLIN X.

At least go from Kaepernick to Pumpernickel. Remember when Arsenio Hall said he wasn't replacing White Bread Johnny Carson, just giving late night viewers some Pumpernickel?

Nah. Can't go with Colin X; the checks he gets all say Kaepernick. And it would be such an effort to cross that out and put in an X. Like it would be much more effort to march than take a knee.