Kim Kardashian announced she was pregnant on New Year’s Day. Just the way we all want to start the year off…Maybe the Mayans were off by a few months.
Hillary Clinton tops a recent Gallup of the Most Admired Women in the world. She has now won this title 17 times and broken the record for the woman who’s won it most (Eleanor Roosevelt had been the previous champion with 13 wins). Shockingly, a Kardashian was nowhere near the top, BUT Sarah Palin was fifth with 2 percent of the vote. I’d like to meet these two percent people, because I’m pretty sure they’re just extended members of her enormous, traveling-circus like family.
Five men in an Idaho prison are suing alcoholic beverage companies because they claim they never would have committed their violent acts if they weren’t inebriated. You know…I’m not sure they have a case, but it is interesting that such a violence prone drug is able to advertise freely, while the only thing someone “kills” while smoking weed is time.
Django Unchained is expected to be Quentin Tarantino’s highest grossing film to date, once and for all proving that what audiences really want on Christmas Day is to see a slave torn apart by a pack of dogs.
Asshole of the Week: Anyone who thought this “fiscal cliff” story was new or exciting in any way. Congress now resembles a long married couple squabbling over money, and I’m really tired of the usual dynamic of Republicans=stingy, tight wad husbands, Democrats=reasonable wives who realistically manage the household budget. I expect Democrats and Republicans to hate each other, but can we at least get some variety in what they’re fighting about? Isn’t there some non-sense moral issue we could beat like a dead horse or perhaps a frivolous war Republicans want to get us involved in——on second thought, keep fighting about money…