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Judge Judy: "Don't Be A Con Artist!"

I had to add this one - it's just too good:

I think Judge Judy may be one of the few women in America who sees American women for what they've become - and acts accordingly,...

Speaking Of A Real Woman (I've Got One For You,...)

As anyone who's read TMR for any amount of time knows, this notorious woman-hater is a huge fan of Judge Judy, so it was with great pleasure that I read this today:

The judge, who just turned 70, is smiling because she pulls down more cash than pretty much every single celebrity you can think of except LeBron James. Seriously, she makes a ton of money — an estimated $45 million annually.

You go, Girl! Whoo-hah! What-What?

And I know, as a regular viewer, every dime is well-deserved - strong, smart, funny, fair - name the descriptive of a competent woman and, in my opinion, Judge Judy has earned it. Through her singular example, the rest of these batshit crazy ladies have got a whole lot to live up to:

 And so, so much more to answer for,… 

"I'm Smarter Than You" (Because You're Stupid)!!!!

Black Judy

I saw this movie, "Black Death," a few nights ago. The trailer, above, gives you the gist of the story.

This trailer shows you the story they wish they'd made. No, "Black Death" isn't particularly exciting, but "it’s strong meat, and it works," because it's basically that rarity of rarities - a true atheist movie. As one reviewer said, "this film bathes in bloody, brutal ambiguity, intelligently casting both Christians and pagans as murderous creeps in a way that looks back objectively at 14th century ignorance while shining an ugly, knowing light on contemporary religious arrogance, too. Message: Everybody sucks. Always."

But still they ask why atheists are so angry (Haven't a clue,…). "Black Death" gets compared with 1968's "Witchfinder General" a lot - the (entire) movie above - just as I get (wrongly) compared to that movie's Vincent Price.

Accuracy shaccuracy. The point is to yell things and don't make sense. Whatever you do - don't make sense.

In that, I'm more like the online "Judge Judy":

"Don't Pee On My Leg And Tell Me It's Raining"

An inspiration to TMR, Judge Judy was taken to the hospital today:

"She said couple of sentences that didn't have anything to do with the case and then she stopped speaking and said she wasn't feeling well".

Word is she's being held overnight, now says she's fine, and just needs some rest. I'm pretty sure - with her common sense approach to life - she knows herself pretty well, so I'm not worried. But, if she's online while in the hospital, I definitely want her to know:

TMR has been a Judge Judy fan since her program first appeared on the air.

Get better.

The Guy's Who Know The Most (Don't Look It)

"Vitamins—with their promise to bridge the gap between the nutrients our bodies need and those they get—have always seemed reassuringly simple: Just pop a multivitamin and let your body soak in those extra nutrients. But not any longer. During the past few years, study after study has raised doubts about what, if any, good vitamins actually do a body. They could even pose some real medical risks.

Half of all American adults take some sort of nutritional supplement. But research on a wide variety of patient populations and medical conditions has failed to find much evidence that multivitamins, the most commonly used of the lot, prevent major chronic diseases in healthy people. The most recent knock came this spring, when a study of more than 160,000 post-menopausal women, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that the all-in-one pills did not prevent cancer, heart attacks, or strokes and did not reduce overall mortality.

Individual vitamins and minerals haven't fared much better under scientific scrutiny, with research debunking some of the reputed benefits of vitamin B6, calcium, niacin, and others. In 2006, the National Institutes of Health convened an independent panel of experts to evaluate the evidence that vitamins could prevent chronic disease. The scientists ultimately issued a report stating that studies 'do not provide strong evidence for beneficial health-related effects of supplements taken singly, in pairs, or in combinations.'

The news on antioxidants, the darlings of the vitamin menagerie, is even more troubling. These compounds, which include vitamins A, C, and E, selenium, beta carotene, and folate, fight free radicals, unstable compounds thought to damage cells and contribute to aging. But not only do antioxidant supplements fail to protect against heart disease, stroke, and cancer; they actually increase the risk of death, according to a 2007 analysis of research on more than 232,000 people, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as other studies."

-- Emily Anthes, reminding me that, if I died today, nobody would care - and all because I told them, with the best of intentions, they're wasting their money buying this crap - which I have never done, even before I'd ever read one thing in Slate.

When I think of all the time and money y'all have thrown away or given to these criminals - that could've gone to me, or some other worthy cause, instead - well,...I just lose a lot of respect for everybody. I'm apparently surrounded by rich useful idiots, who have always been rich useful idiots, and will always be rich useful idiots. And you can't be talked out of it - not by me anyway. As Judge Judy says:

Beauty fades, but stupid is forever.

It's You, Baby, It's You (You're Totally Stupid)

A fascinating aspect of these shows from a rhetorical point of view is the number of arguments made by the litigants that are utterly illogical, or perversions of standard logic, and yet are used over and over again,...The seminar will be concerned with identifying,...apparently popular logical fallacies on "Judge Judy" and "The People's Court" and discussing why such strategies are so widespread.

-- A Berkeley College course description, explaining why we always loved "Judge Judy" - and why NewAgers (and other stupid people) have always hated her - on News Alert.

Hat Tip: Althouse