That’s a Family!

In next Thursday’s Independent, I will discuss the New Jersey ban on playing an educational video called “That’s a Family!” because it depicts gay couples and their adopted children. For reference, here is a clip from “That’s a Family!”

License to Wed…Murder.

If you are even a little bit of a classic movie fan, check out this re-envisioning of recent movies with great directors of old, courtesy of Misfortune Cookie over at Blogger. The Hitchcock/License to Wed combo is particularly brilliant.

Is America ready for a woman president? Let’s ask Mystery!

 

OK, so this clip from the Daily Show has been posted nearly to death, but if you haven’t seen it, you’re missing out. I’m normally not Samantha Bee’s biggest fan, but it just doesn’t get any funnier than this.

Also, Mystery? Kind of hot.

Red Scare- The Beyonce Edition

For those just tuning in, this is the third installment in a series where I find celebrities’ (often extremely dubious) ties to communism. No, you won’t find Sean Penn or Alec Baldwin here, but you will find McCarthy-era links to friends of friends of some people that might be communists.

While linking Italian pop star Tiziano Ferro or Serbian tennis superstar and part-time comedian Novak Djokovic (both extremely gorgeous men, by the way, so props to them where they are due) took some effort, Jay-Z’s love gave me very little work to do, and I’m not just talking about her public appearances wearing a shirt with the face of mass murderer/genocidal manical Che Guevara, either. I was always a little thrown off by that song “Irreplaceable”- you know, the one that goes “to the left, to the left,” and I do believe the lyrics are dedicated to George W. Bush. However, the good folks over at ytmnd.com did all the work for me, check it out here.

Stay tuned! Next time, will it be Britney? Paris? Marty Scorcese? You never know!

Stick to Your Day Jobs, Folks

Thanks to my insomnia, I managed to find this video, to which my reaction was a mix of awe, culture shock (Europeans are so strange!), and great amusement. It is a compilation of French commercials to promote the 2007 Roland Garros competition.

Enjoy!

Red Scare- the Novak Djokovic Edition

As you all know, I have a McCarthy-ish habit of picking out pinkos and commies from among a cloud of celebrities. Recently, I found a few strange little lyrics and some quotes that made me suspect of Italian pop star Tiziano Ferro, who, while I still remain a fan, particularly for his hilarious anti-Mexican mustache comments, am wary of. As I find more and more celebrities to suspect of, I’ve decided to make a bit of an ongoing segment on the subject, which I will call “Red Scare”. I acknowledge I could be wrong on any one of these suspicions, but the evidence is always there.

This time, I found reason to suspect of adorable Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, now the number 3 seed in the world and the only man capable of threatening the reign of terror best-player-in-the-history-of-tennis-ever (and probably not a communist) Roger Federer has installed in the men’s game. While I’m still rooting for Nole to win the US Open, if only because Andy Roddick has been eliminated and I’m a little bored of watching Federer win everything that matters (yes, that excludes the French Open), this video certainly turned on my commie radar:

Why would this cute video of a young tennis star admiring the sometimes drug addict (and always douchebag) Diego Maradona worry me, you ask? Well, the clearest way I can answer also comes from Youtube:

For you non-Spanish speakers out there, this is a clip from Hugo Chavez’s syndicated TV Show, “Aló Presidente!” (“Hello, President!”), where he harangues a captive audience for a few hours before inviting some socialist or another to praise his administration. In this episode, he invited Maradona, who admits that he “believe[s] in Chavez, [he is] a Chavista!” only to later be referred to as “El Che Maradona” and be honored with a montage to Chavez’s favorite song, “You are My Best Friend” by 1960s Brazilian star Roberto Carlos.

Does our little Nole know that, by associating himself with Maradona, he is supporting a regime that has denounced democracy, openly violated human rights, and proudly supported such international mass murderers as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Fidel Castro? We hope not, but we’re rooting for Federer to take the Open, just in case. We hope Djokovic will stick to winning matches and making fun of Maria Sharapova and avoid making undesirable political moves, but I just can’t help still thinking he’s a cutie.

Tune into the next edition of “Red Scare”, where we pick out another celebrity and loosely connect them to communism!