The Internet Is Cruel

Birthing Beatlemania From A Cavern In Germany (Again)

 

 Quotes from Megan McArdle's "Whistleblowers Are Weird":

 

"Last night I saw a few tweets from people I respect noting that in coming days, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden may not look as noble as we now think him.  (I hope I'm wrong, one added.)"

"Imagine trash talking your family, your employer, or your country on national television--in a language that none of them speaks. In other words, imagine being disloyal in a way that was not detectable by the people you were betraying.  You probably still wouldn't do it anyway, would you?  It feels wrong.  You would feel bad about yourself if you did it."

"Psychopaths feel no guilt about doing these things--or stealing your money, your wife, and your dog. They are fundamentally untrustworthy, though also, thankfully rare."

"In coming days we will almost certainly realize that Edward Snowden is not like the rest of us. In fact, the details of his resume already released hint as much: a high school dropout somehow turned intelligence worker, who kept his live-in girlfriend in the dark about what he was doing and told her he was going on a business trip while he disappeared to Hong Kong. That's a hell of a way to break up with someone."

 

I'll stop there, since I never thought of this prick - or his supporters - as "noble."

Other than Edward Snowden causing some kind of destruction back home, I can think of only two things Megan McArdle and her delusional friends (not "we") have actually been rooting for:

1. MORE destruction back home - not just Snowden's girlfriend.

2. Snowden's girlfriend gets over it quickly, so she'll be cool enough to screw other ways.

Rest assured, that's when the screams become so loud you can't hear them playing,....

 

My Reaction To NewAge (Is Also A Product Of NewAge)

Today, I'm saluting what-we're-being-sold-as America's "extended family".

From the Self-Help world, I see Dr. Joyce Brothers has died:

When asked why the public was hungry for personal advice from a public person, she proposed that an increasingly mobile society had heightened feelings of isolation. 

"There is a lot more searching for answers these days," Brothers told the Washington Post in 1979. "And a lot more answers too. But we're missing friends and kinship roles. So you rent a friend. Like Dr. Joyce Brothers." 

...One demographic that did not seek her advice was her own family. 

"She totally loses her objectivity," her husband told UPI in 1985. "With her family, she's abysmal."

 

 Speaking as someone who's been somewhat isolated my whole life, even when I had a choice, I'd never gone in for that "rent a friend" stuff. I mean, first of all, if you want 'em, real ones are free. (I know - wha?) Second, if you're renting 'em, they're going to tend to agree with you, right or wrong, right-right? Real friends don't do that. My friends and I argue, over the phone, about what we're wearing.

(Like I said, they're free,...)

   

 So - ruminating on the hidden fragility of the family unit vs. the obvious strength engendered in true friendships - what's the possibility of there having been some gravitational pull between A) the selling of circular reasoning by the "abysmal" B) a train wreck, and C) that train just happening to loop back on the blood relatives of the "extended family" they were unwittingly forced into?

As I've been saying for a while now, when it comes to social disaster, most roads lead to Oprah:

Readers don’t pick up self-help books just to ruminate on life’s dilemmas, but to be guided to solutions. The new series of self-help books published by the London-based School of Life, co-founded by the Swiss-born popular philosopher Alain de Botton, echoes the school’s lofty approach to problems, claiming to be “intelligent, rigorous, well-written new guides to everyday living.” Yet to peruse the School of Life’s calendar of classes is to fall into a vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat,...

 

 This is the upside-down world of NewAge "Friends" - TV shows, talk shows, Facebook - today. Because, would any "friend" be allowed to buy into this nonsense, on the scale it's been, knowing we've got to look at each other tomorrow? Not around here.

Here's the true family reality:

Somewhere, deep down inside, Brad Pitt's wife, Jennifer Aniston, is doing the Snoopy dance - not because Angelina Jolie wasn't held down and abused by misogynistic male physicians - but, with Jolie having announced her breast removal was "My Medical Choice", it's also a pretty good guess it wasn't anything Anniston's husband, Brad, was counseled, or counting on, either.

That's the Self-Helped now.

 

Then there's also the unforgettable issue of Jolie's procedure being insufficiently homeopathic, but then, none of what's transpired - starting with Pitt originally leaving mega-NewAger Gwyneth Paltrow for Aniston - jibes with NewAge's stated purposes (there are many) or even the claims it's participants make about how they live their lives.

Forget friends and family, considering the sadism, I have to wonder, how do they sleep?

The Easy Answer:

 Like (the adulterous) Bill Clinton, to the words of "rent a friend" Ken Wilber.

 

I tell ya, they're everywhere.

It just occurred to me that, even knowing Jolie is a U.N. ambassador, this medical operation is the most significant thing the regularly-voted "Most Beautiful" actress in the world has ever done to garner respect in it.

That's absolutely insane.

It's no wonder so many stick to merely making money:

With so many "helping" this path to enlightenment stuff can be hard,...

 

Lego (I'm Outta Here - And I'm Pissed,...)

Alright, first read this and then I've got some questions:

When Ashton Kutcher decided to split with Demi Moore, his love life wasn’t the only thing that needed an overhaul. While married to the crazy, aging star he was knee-deep in Kabbalah teachings.  He appeared to be as devout in the practice as Demi and it was one of the things that seemed to cement their relationship. Somewhere along the way Ashton took a good hard look at his entire life and realized that more than just his relationship was a bad fit. When he and Mila Kunis, who is Jewish, first hooked up a year ago she made it perfectly clear that she wasn’t going to be studying Kabbalah for him. She, like many, feels it’s not a legitimate religion and even made fun of it. 

Flash forward a year and apparently Ashton too, is seeing Kabbalah as a big sham.

Man, that guy is s-l-o-w (Certainly, Mila Kunis - like Demi Moore, Madonna and Angelina - likes 'em stupid) and the line "she made it perfectly clear that she wasn’t going to be studying Kabbalah for him" is a classic. What a schmuck Ashton is. (Way to go, Mila!) O.K., enough - here's my questions: 

1) Would you trust the long-term stability of someone who was always switching religions, based on who he or she was sleeping with at any given moment? 

2) Would you trust the long-term stability of someone dumb enough to fall for Kabbalah? 

3) Would you trust the long-term stability of a marriage to someone who's already got a history of ending them - someone who thinks they're involved in a, immature, boyfriend/girlfriend enterprise - when we can only have one "spouse" in a lifetime? 

4) If you were the sucker - dumb enough to let some idiot talk you into "a big sham" - would you wait until you're no longer an idiot before you got involved with someone else, or would you just jump in with both feet, and potentially damage your (new) loved one through your lack of common sense?* 

 5) Would you marry a Jew? (Kidding,...)

*#4? I'll answer this one:

You're pathetic - and will do anything, to anyone, to get your way. You have no "loved one" (new or otherwise) besides your own image. You can switch "spouses" because your hippie parents taught you other people are interchangeable. Just as your beliefs are. (You believed you loved this person, now you love this one,...) What's it matter who you hurt or what pain you caused? Hurting others is how your parents raised you to became "you". First, they did it to their parents, and now it's everyone else who would dare tell you "no". The Peace & Love culture raised you to be a selfish asshole - but with that stupid-assed dumb and silly smile.

Well, fuck you and fuck them:

You've had the whole thing backwards from the beginning,...

Twilight (It Just All Seems So Obvious Now,...)

This is your typical "Vampire Kit."

This is your typical vampire.

Any questions?

 

He Said He'd Tell It Like It Is (And That He Did)

It seems it also takes an atheist to speak truth to power in Hollywood:

Ricky Gervais may have scripted his own Hollywood downfall at last night's Golden Globes as the host tore into celebrity targets at the annual awards do - and divided opinion with his cringe-worthy performance.

But it seems that his trademark acerbic humour may have crossed the line, as the U.S., media rounded on The Office comic dubbing his performance 'uncomfortable', 'corrosive' and 'abusive'.

The Hollywood Reporter predicted it would 'undoubtedly be his last hosting gig for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (and, who knows, maybe any Stateside awards)'.

Invited back for a second year, the British funnyman warned he planned to ensure he would not be asked again - and it seems he may well have fulfilled his destiny as he made the A-list audience gasp at jokes about Brad and Angelina, Charlie Sheen and Robert Downey Junior.

He also left the crowd reeling as he made a thinly veiled jibe about 'famous gay Scientologist actors.'

While referring to films that had not made the cut this year, one of those was the Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor film I Love You, Phillip Morris, featuring, as he put it, 'two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. '

Gervais then added: 'Sort of the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists then'.

'Oooooooo,' went the audience, before Gervais added: 'My lawyers helped me with the wording of that joke.'

Nobody was spared by his scatter-gun approach. He kicked proceedings in much the way he would continue, by lampooning Charlie Sheen.

The hugely paid Two And A Half Men star has had a tumultuous year, firstly splitting from Denise Richards and recently spending time holed up in Las Vegas with a porn star, Bree Olson.

'It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking,' Gervais began his monologue, sipping from a glass of what looked like beer.

'Or, as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast.'

Speaking to the Mail Online backstage, Gervais rather narrowed down the identity of his target, wisecracking: 'I hope people didn't work out who it was.'

He then made a jibe at the expense of nominated film The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.

'I feel bad about that joke,' he said after his first dig. 'I'm jumping on the bandwagon, because I haven't even seen The Tourist. Who has?'

He was just warming up. He went on to tell the audience that The Tourist had not been nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association just because its members wanted to hang out with the film's stars.

'Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of Bonanza.'

'That is not the only reason,' Gervais insisted with a saucy smile. 'They also accepted bribes.'

Gervais then dug into the Hollywood Foreign Press, who were the evening's hosts, for nominating Burlesque after being bribed with tickets to a Cher concert.

He added that it wasn't a halfway decent bribe anyway because no one has wanted to go to a Cher concert since 1975.

Gervais also took a dig at the stars of Sex And The City 2 stars and said: 'I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed [the Sex And The City 2] poster.

Awww, did Ricky make the millionaire stars uncomfortable? Puh-leaze. If a dig at Tom Cruise and John Travolta's "religion" (and sexuality) is all he got into with that nest of NewAge vipers - and their awful movies - they got off waaay too easy. And isn't it weird that honesty is frowned upon, when they shove such garbage at us every other day of the week? They shame America.

Let 'em squirm! Way to go, Ricky!



UPDATE: And a "Bravo!" from across the pond!

Lying Is The Worst Thing: Requiem For A Dream

It is a sincere tragedy of our lives to witness, and fully understand, those who lose sight of what's important. It crushes us. It bears down on our own will to live.

We feel it in the utterances of those who gleefully point to a 50% divorce rate, without acknowledging what understanding of our collective humanity we've lost. To stand with another person - for life - is no small feat. If you're not up to it, you can hardly claim to have mastered concepts like loyalty, strength, wisdom, or compassion. In truth, you're a failure in the basics of existence. We know this. It is The Truth. The big one religious types claim to seek.

We are nothing without each other.

If you can't handle one person, collecting others won't make up the difference. Too many, who claim to understand the big questions, lose sight of that in their musings. But, collectively, we know.

John Edwards and Rielle Hunter will never be trusted, except by the naive and twisted. Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani will never be president. Bill Clinton will always be watched around our daughters. And Angelina Jolie will always be a multi-divorced homewrecker, attached to Brad Pitt who - no matter how many houses he builds - will never be known for his smarts. Prince Charles and Madonna - no matter who they are or how much money they have - will always be plain weird.

They're all examples of the extremely short-sighted - those who found fame, took shortcuts, and lost. Wealth won't change it. Their characters are fixed, and their characters are broken, if it's possible they have any character left at all. The same applies to the multitude of unknown others, trying to start a new life where no one knows what they've done to those closest to them. They're hiding their shame, and trying to make a NewAge where shame doesn't exist, so they can hopefully cheat humanity once again. But there's no escape. Strike a defiant pose all you want, remarry, claim to be happy. Someone else's misery is out there, created by you, and defiling the land. Do you hope your children will one day be happy? Why? Someone else, who looked for the same promise of a lifetime, found you to their utmost regret.

There's no one here but us on this planet, and - deep down inside - we all know what what-they've-done individually means to civilization. They are the first wave of the forces of evil. It's no surprise that the pain of a break-up has been known to kill. It's no surprise the pain of divorce has been likened to death, and been known to shorten lives. The perps can only run. The people who initiate these actions are murderers of something vital, no matter how blithely they try to brush it away. No matter how they try to make the lie look. They don't want to think about it. They don't want the rest of us to know what it means.

Neither do we, but we do.

Ugly: Inside And Out (There's A Real Difference?)

Contrast and compare - here's Exhibit A:

Every woman in the photo, above, is a known NewAger - like Rielle Hunter, supposedly a "spiritual" person - who has proven, in both word and deed, they can't be trusted by anyone, including co-workers, family, and friends. They've proudly slept with other people's spouses, destroyed families - including their own - openly lied to almost everyone they've come in contact with, endorsed cultism and quackery around the globe, badmouthed our country, campaigned for candidates and political proposals that have already hurt us, used their celebrity as a hammer, etc. They're all 100% absolutely disgusting people, who are so ugly - on the inside - that when cut, they probably bleed feces.

Next up, of course, you've got the outward abominations in Exhibit B:



Now, using these two examples, can you honestly say which group is the least attractive?

Yea, I'd Hit That (Just Not The Way You Think)

"Mick Jagger had an affair with Angelina Jolie whilst he was still married to Jerry Hall, a new book has sensationally claimed.

It is alleged the pair first had a brief fling after she starred in the video for the Rolling Stones' 1997 song Anybody Seen My Baby?, while she was still married to British actor Jonny Lee Miller.

And it is claimed they enjoyed a second affair six years later in 2003, while the womanising rocker was with his latest lover L'Wren Scott.

On this occasion it is claimed the two were seen going back to Jagger's room at the Oriental hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

The allegations come in a new book called Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie: The True Story, written by US biographer Jenny Paul.

She has spent six years researching the material and her sources are said to include Jolie's close friend Texas Terri and an ex-boyfriend of her mother, Bill Day.

In a string of other allegations, Paul also claims that Angelina was sleeping with Hollywood star Ralph Fiennes and ex-husband Miller when she met Brad Pitt in 2004.

She also says that Jolie was dating Irish actor Colin Farrell, 33, for four months after meeting him on the set of 2004 film, Alexander.

The new book also outlines an account of how Angelina Jolie and her current partner Brad Pitt got together. When they first met, he was still married to Friends star Jennifer Aniston.

'Brad told Angelina just weeks into filming Mr & Mrs Smith that his marriage to Jen was over in every way apart from on paper and had been for more than a year,' says Paul.

According to the book, Brad told Angelina that he and Jen were just good friends and were waiting for the right time to officially end their marriage."

-- Simon Cable, with more news that should keep the rubes applauding - Angelina's your odd-looking and totally-slutty NewAge hero! - as she continues to be a source of pain for others, straight from The Daily Mail.

Seems To Be A Lot Of That Going Around

"[Naomi] Wolf’s article on [Angelina] Jolie is not a standard celebrity profile. There is no interview, no encounter between the author and the object of her affection. Jolie remains an ideal, and the article is explicitly about the 'life narrative' Jolie has 'crafted,' the 'persona that [took] her to global icon.' It declares itself an essay about artifice and image. What makes the piece so compelling is Wolf's palpable yearning to believe. In the guise of analyzing Jolie’s image, she succumbs, forgetting that glamour is an illusion."

-- Virginia Postrel, pulling out those pesky NewAge buzzwords - and sticking them in quotes - so we can know they've got nothing to do with Deep Glamour.

Congratulations

"Women took the top four places on the annual Forbes Celebrity 100 Power List, with pop stars Madonna and Beyonce coming close behind Jolie and Winfrey."

-- Anil Dawar, ignoring what lying NewAge quack medicine shitbags three of those four are (as far as we know Beyonce's just boring) and yet, that's something we still don't feel about The Times Online.

True Confession Time: The Macho Response Thinks This Train Wreck Of An Interview - And His Ex-Wife - Are Just About Equally Attractive

"Bear in mind as you watch that this is the same guy whose social skills were supreme enough to land Angelina Jolie."

-- Allah Pundit, who seems to be under the delusion NewAge's Big Lip Adoption Agency is some kind of mental giant (even after she traded Billy Bob Burn-out for Brad "Not-The-Sharpest-Knife-In-The-Drawer" Pitt) or - much more likely - he's maybe spewing Hot Air.

Do You Ever Miss The Billy Bob Years?

We don’t either.

Bailout? How About A Swift Kick To The Groin Instead

Truth is, these are desperate economic times In Hollywood right now, as anyone who saw the Academy Awards Sunday night can tell you. Sure, we put up a good front - the show must go on, after all - but the signs of belt-tightening and corner-cutting in The Industry are everywhere.

One look at the starving, emaciated bodies of the Best Supporting Actress nominees on TV last night told the story. No wonder Penelope Cruz almost fainted on stage during her acceptance speech. Even our Best Picture winners are being outsourced to India now. And you know times are bad when a big star like Mickey Rourke is forced to buy his clothes in thrift shops and second-hand stores…

… Just last week Brad and Angelina had to let two of their kids go…

Even the highest levels of the entertainment industry have been affected by this crisis. Some studio heads are reportedly down to their last mile or so of beachfront property. There are unconfirmed reports that at Barbra Streisand’s last $50,000 a head Democratic fundraiser some guests were offered non-imported vodka. And industry big shots who once dined on steak and lobster have been reduced to eating raw fish wrapped in seaweed. No, you’re not seeing things– I said raw fish and seaweed!

Ned Rice – Big Hollywood

Let’s say Susan Sarandon is making a movie. She’ll show up on the set or location, probably late, and sit on her lard ass while others do her hair, make-up and clothes and she idles away dreaming up new ways to hate her country.

Meanwhile, a stand-in is working with the crew for lighting and sound checks.

When she’s done being reconstructed, she’ll wander over to the catering table while her personal assistant deflects her phone calls.

Then the big moment; the director summons her, she stands where the stand-in used to be, spouts three or four lines written by someone else and wanders back to the catering table, her three brain cells tightly focused on herself.

Repeat this, on and off, for maybe three months, and after the rest of the crew does the real work of putting the movie together (for a fraction of the pay), you people shovel money at her. Now, because of her underdeveloped mind, she feels entitled, and views you and your country with even more contempt.

And there’s a whole list of names you can substitute for Sarandon.

So while you’re mad at your mortgage company for ripping you off, you at least have a house to show for it. Remember that while you’re gleefully raining money down on a dirt bag celebrity who only jacked you off for ninety minutes.

Get a freakin’ clue people.

Celebrity Right Stuff

Octomom, who has taken a real beating from the media, has us wondering about what it takes to achieve celebrity status.

Let’s go down a list of questions and see if you think this is what makes a celebrity:

Dark hair?

Dark Eyes?

Plump lips?

Collects children?

Sells photo rights?

Sells story?

Complains about paprazzi but
in reality loves the attention?

Makes the rounds on interview shows?

Seems unstable?

Does weird things?

Isn’t married despite lots of kids?

Frequently pretends to be someone else?

So, whaddya think? Based on her description, is Angelina Jolie celebrity material?

And Octomom has one big advantage over Jolie: She doesn't have "Laura Croft: Tomb Raider" on her resume.

Socking It To 'Em: Welcome To NewAge Hell!!!

Hat Tip: Respectful Insolence

NewAge: One Big Hurtful Adulterous Clusterfuck Of Destructive Ken Wilber-Inspired Cluelessness

"[They’re] talking about not only the woman I love, but one of the people on this planet who I have the greatest respect for. I think she’s as honorable as anyone I’ve ever met."

-- Brad Pitt, the "dreamy and wise" Ken Wilber-reading NewAge hypocrite (who left the NewAge Jennifer Aniston) defending the NewAge Angelina Jolie, and proving NewAgers don't have a clue what the words "love", "respect" and "honorable" mean - and stupidly assuming TMR doesn't either - like everyone is as stupid as they are, and works for The San Francisco Examiner.

Yes, that would be the same Ken Wilber the murderous "Doctor" Robert Wohlfahrt suggested to my ex-wife, Karine Anne Brunck - as she committed adultery with him - after they killed her mother, and before they went on to kill others. (Whew, that's a mouthful!) I swear:

I can't make this stuff up.

And I hope this post can explain why it's so difficult to get over my divorce: I'm surrounded by this lunacy in such a way that I can't help but be constantly reminded of the whole ugly thing - I can't even be allowed to read a stupid celebrity blurb! It'll only be when NewAge is "eliminated" (to use the word NewAgers have, when the little nazis describe what they want to do to non-believers) can I ever hope to be free of this nonsense.

It's the scourge of our time.

Honesty: Not So Hot After All

"Jennifer Aniston — who received backlash from ex-husband Brad Pitt for revealing never-told details about their split to Vogue magazine – defends her comments in a new interview with Oprah Winfrey.

'I basically just answered it as honestly as I could,' Aniston says on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' airing today, reports People."

-- wowOwow.com

And Brad Is Just the Pitts

"What Angelina did was very uncool."

-- Jennifer Aniston, on Angelina Jolie - who everyone has applauded as some kind of a saint since Jolie did the "uncool" thing of stealing Aniston's husband - in The Daily Mail.

TMR can't think of one - not one - NewAge "moral leader" who isn't a proven scum bag.