"Weird Al" Yankovic pwns Lady Gaga

Hace unos meses Paul Maršić y yo escribimos a cuatro manos (aunque él se llevó todo el crédito) acerca de la negativa de Lady Gaga de conceder a "Weird Al" Yankovic un permiso que en realidad no necesitaba para parodiar "Born this Way", el megahimno con el que la diva proclama su manifiesto a sus "pequeños monstruos." Como bien saben, Gagaracia pegó un patinazo al negarse, echándose un baldado inesperado de mala publicidad, no de esa que vende discos, sino de esa que te deja como una chancleta delante de tu audiencia.

Y es que Yankovic, para decirlo en palabras del barranquillero promedio, ya la tenía calibrada. Es fácil para alguien que lleva toda la vida no tomándose en serio, y que sabe tanto o más sobreponerse ante la adversidad como la émula de Madonna. Porque parece que la carrera de Lady Gaga depende de qué tan en serio se la tomen y no del mensaje de sus canciones.


Si la letra es ácida, el video lo es aun más.

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Not a hint of dignity left for Anthony Weiner

Anthony Weiner’s original intentions were to deliver a quiet, standard politician resignation address. But this time the scorned wife (a detail most Weiner apologists like to forget) was nowhere in sight (we’re still waiting for her take on Weinergate, too). And after two weeks of non-stop humiliation being the butt of countless jokes and while the embarrassing photos kept on coming, the final nail in the coffin was about to get hammered: The Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was more than ready to strip him of most of his congressional duties. If he was going to become a zero in Congress, the only way out was to resign immediately.

Well, he always could have announced he was switching parties (that would have really pleased the Democrats), but Republicans would have never accepted such pile of troubles. Well, things could have turned different if the Republican majority in the House of Representatives wasn’t so overwhelming. Otherwise Pelosi & Co. would have circled the wagons around him. In other words, it wasn’t only that his situation was desperate, he was disposable. Even the New York district where he was elected was bound to disappear.

Huma Abedin still keeps his low profile and is foremost the real victim in this case. Even if Weiner did not meet the six women he was sexting on the ‘net, he was cheating on her. That’s the hypocrisy Larry Flynt wows to keep fighting by hiring Weiner. Yep, no Current TV or CNN gig for the Weiner. Barbara Walters is right: Weiner has never held another job in his entire adult life.

Larry Flynt unspecified offer matches the congressional salary plus medical benefits plus relocation expenses. And he’s dead serious. At least more serious than heartbroken Hugh Heffner, who deluded himself into believing that at his 85 years he’s still a divine gift to women and his moneybags and powerful connections do not have something to do with it. Crystal Harris, who were 60 years his junior, called the wedding off less than a week she was set to walk the aisle (in white, no less). Now she already made history by making a fool of the founder of a media empire specialized in stripping women naked.

Is it then to wonder the way former congressman Weiner was heckled at his press conference? Weiner is toast. He is a goner. He can get no respect. After Joey Bottafouco there wasn’t until now such a case of a pathetic walking punch line. Even Bill Clinton managed to get a life after Zippergate and Monica Lewinsky.



And this is the man Larry Flynt wants to hire to denounce hypocrisy…

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Demotivational Posters for Mid-June

Summer is almost here, and boy this has been a half year full of news! Now, a taste of Demotivational Posters:

Thanks to all those public figures that make my work a lot easier.

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South Park: Parker and Stone just don't care anymore

The equal-opportunity offenders finally cave in. Liberals have won at last. As simply as that. If Trey Parker and Matt Stone drew a lot of controversy with the "200" and "201" episodes, it was because they wanted to show they still got it. They have just simply become too lazy after 15 years, and yes, gazillions of dollars to care still about consistency with their award-winning, long-running cartoon sitcom juggernaut "South Park".

Let me explain myself: In a cartoon in which one of the main characters, Kenny, have experienced death no less than 54 times, there was still a spirit of order, besides pissing off every single group of interest, from sexual minorities to disabled persons al the way up to Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives: "I hate conservatives, but I f&%$ hate liberals", that was their meme.

It has been so many strikes since then, let's review some of them:
1. Margaritaville, Season 13 Ep. 3: the solution to the Great Recession is spending your way out of it with Keynes... er, Kyle's platinum card. Really? I have some dot-com stocks I want to sell you, Matt and Trey.

2. Dances With Smurfs, Season 13 Ep. 13: They don't have to watch what Glenn Beck says on TV (well, not anymore), but they used as material only what Beck's enemies had to offer. Not to mention the unfair treatment of the TEA Party, that shares more values of the original series than any other movement. It looks like Parker and Stone were suspiciously jealous of Beck and the TEA Party stealing from them their irreverent style...

3. "T.M.I.", Season 15 Ep. 4: again, cheap shots are expected, but this... Hey! maybe they were finally co-opted by the Hollywood Liberal Machine!

4. "Insheeption", Season 14 Ep. 10: Somehow, the creators of South Park got away with plagiarism... er, lifting entire lines from a parody of "Inception" by CollegeHumor. They didn't even bother to download the movie! Talk to me about laziness!

And last not least, "You're Getting Old", midseason's finale. It looks like the creators of South Park don't want to be seen together anymore, and that things can work out between a normal, well-adjusted guy that happens to be a Jew, and a sociopathic bigot. Maybe in South Park's finale Cartman and Kyle will grow old enough to get married!


It would make enough sense as anything else in that surreal universe...

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10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plunge The World Into A Horrific Economic Nightmare - Business Insider

Forget about aliens, meteorites and grey goo. After the sucess of Ten Ways the World is Going To End (name that movie!), here comes the sequel with a (more realistic) vengeance: Thanks to Bussiness Insider's analysis, the way the current statu quo is going to implode is ten times more plausible. Enjoy:





Gird your loins...

John Edwards and Anthony Weiner: Six Degrees of Delusion

A trial lawyer with a knack for demagoguery. A state senator considered phony and shallow by his colleagues. Two times presidential hopeful. And two-timing his wife sick with cancer. This is John Edwards, an old acquaintance of this blog. Now he has to face the music in form of a federal grand jury that indicted him on six counts of violating campaign finance laws, lying to the government and conspiring to protect his candidacy by breaking the law. Not apparently but while the whole whole world was watching (in spite of the deafening silence of the mainstream media), he hid his pregnant mistress while seeking the nomination in 2008 by accepting nearly $1 million from two supporters to fund the deception. Anybody that read the National Enquirer knew that but John Edwards, that is pleading not guilty to all charges.
Even after all the damaging evidence put in front of our eyes, LA Times chooses to make Edwards look good by using a gigantic photo depicting him as Jor-El, the late father of Superman, trying to sugarcoat the fact that he's indicted and is guilty as hell. But who's to blame? According to jg6195 (John George Columbus Ohio), the republicans make him betray his cancer-ridden wife with a loony groupie using campaign funds for his sexcapade.

After all, he's still one of them, speaking of which...

Anthony Weiner. I will be brief (heh, heh) with this. It almost doesn't matter anymore if he did send to a young female co-ed follower a crotch shot with a... bonus track under his underwear, so to speak, that ended as a public tweet. What happened after this is what matters. Apparently:

1. He cannot be sure if it is really his crotch that appears on the photo.

2. Even after he denounced his facebook and twitter accounts were hacked (a federal crime), he doesn't want to involve the FBI, while he's more than ready to denounce other political adversaries.

3. He cannot answer yes or no to straight questions regarding the incident; besides, he's willing to call "jackass" reporters that are in ideologically affinity with him. Even worse, he calls the police to intimidate them.

4. He's ok with Markos Moulitsas disclosing the identities of underage girls marginally involved in the original scandal, in a sick, sleazy but somewhat sycophantic attempt to get the precious congressman exonerated.

After all, he's still one of them, too.

Edwards and Weiner, man up and fess up! Both of you! Anyway, it seems the count for A-Holes for the second semester of 2011 has already started.

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