So NBC did a poll about Arizona's immigration law.
Results: 61% support the law; 39% do not.
Yes, I'd like to know who responded or how many people they polled or where those people live. Still, I ask, do such results mean nothing? Someone on the federal level--maybe the president and his flunkies--ought to pay attention.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Betty White, and isn't it a shame
This post is similar to the one on Carol's Corner, but it's not identical. Why do I post it twice? Because I am really disappointed, at least times two.
In 1952 I was 11 and we lived in Santa Monica. Betty White had a local TV show, Life With Elizabeth, co-starring Jim Backus. I loved the show, and I loved her. From then on I have liked to see her in whatever role she has played; even the stupid skits on Johnny Carson were often funny, if sometimes shady. She's good, fun, smart.
Now she's old, 88, but she is not dead and neither is her career. I have liked her in her occasional appearances on TV, and I liked her in The Proposal. So it was logical that I watch as she hosted Saturday Night Live. Of course, I have seen the show, but it is generally vulgar and stupid, so I do not watch it. And I should have known because of the over-hype about it.
I did feel some apprehension, because I figured the writers would hardly change just because the host is someone I like. Right I was to be apprehensive. She even said the F word. Why? Just to prove she could? Disgusting and quite disappointing.
Vulgar? Yes, and beyond the merely suggestive. And, really, those are all old jokes, if you can call them jokes.
Stupid? Very. And no imagination exhibited by the writers. I mean there are other themes that could have emerged beyond that of her age. Aren't there?
Funny? Not in the least.
Disappointing? Well, yes, because I expected she might be a cut above the crap. But she isn't.
I couldn't watch the whole thing, and I felt it was not a good beginning to my sabbath.
In 1952 I was 11 and we lived in Santa Monica. Betty White had a local TV show, Life With Elizabeth, co-starring Jim Backus. I loved the show, and I loved her. From then on I have liked to see her in whatever role she has played; even the stupid skits on Johnny Carson were often funny, if sometimes shady. She's good, fun, smart.
Now she's old, 88, but she is not dead and neither is her career. I have liked her in her occasional appearances on TV, and I liked her in The Proposal. So it was logical that I watch as she hosted Saturday Night Live. Of course, I have seen the show, but it is generally vulgar and stupid, so I do not watch it. And I should have known because of the over-hype about it.
I did feel some apprehension, because I figured the writers would hardly change just because the host is someone I like. Right I was to be apprehensive. She even said the F word. Why? Just to prove she could? Disgusting and quite disappointing.
Vulgar? Yes, and beyond the merely suggestive. And, really, those are all old jokes, if you can call them jokes.
Stupid? Very. And no imagination exhibited by the writers. I mean there are other themes that could have emerged beyond that of her age. Aren't there?
Funny? Not in the least.
Disappointing? Well, yes, because I expected she might be a cut above the crap. But she isn't.
I couldn't watch the whole thing, and I felt it was not a good beginning to my sabbath.
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