.So here I sit. I’ve been catching up on my reading.
.But wait! I’m looking out my window and I see two deer out on my patio. Very cool. I took some pics.
.Back to my reading:
1. HORNY IRVINE COPS. What’s with the cops in this town, anyway? About a year ago, DtB followed the story of IVC’s “sexy yet corrupt” police chief. (He was let go amid rumors of conduct most foul, and, no, I'm not talkin' about his love life. See IVC’s top cops.) That story led us to an old story about the Irvine PD and its stunning sex-related scandals of yore. (As far as I know, presently, the IPD is squeaky clean. But since I know a bit about inductive logic, I’ve gotta say: it ain't likely.)
.On Thursday, the OC Reg reported that
.A jury awarded more than $1 million in damages Wednesday to a [LAPD] police detective who claimed she was wrongly demoted for complaining about alleged sexual misconduct by her boss…The jury deliberated for several hours before finding that the Police Department retaliated against Ya-May Christle for complaining about former Deputy Chief Michael Berkow....
.OK, this is confusing. Why is this story in the OC Reg? Luckily, a June Reg article clears things up:
.Berkow was brought to the LAPD in 2003 to reform its disciplinary system. The former Rochester, N.Y., officer and Irvine, Calif., police chief initiated investigations that led to dozens of officers being fired for misconduct…He became police chief in Savannah in November.
.So it’s like this: years ago, former New York cop Berkow became Irvine’s Police Chief. Then he went off to the LAPD to head that department’s Professional Standards Bureau. Whilst firing LAPD cops for their professional misconduct, Berkow had “a three-year affair with a female sergeant under his supervision.”
.But of course he did!
.Then he left to become the top cop in Savannah.
.Did you ever get the notion that cop culture is flat rotten?
2. THAT OTHER FUBAR SOUTH COUNTY DISTRICT. The OC Weekly has a fine article about the Wild CAPO school district saga. In some ways, the excesses and vices of CUSD officials parallel those of the SOCCCD. Check it out.
3. THE GAY BOMB? Yesterday, Inside Higher Ed reported that
• ["F*CK BUSH"] J. David McSwane, who wrote the now notorious editorial about President Bush for The Rocky Mountain Collegian, will keep his job. The editorial contained two words, one of them starting with an F, and set off many calls for McSwane to lose his position as the top editor at the student paper at Colorado State University.…[The] board declined to fire McSwane.4. A NEW BUST OF ST. RONALD. Finally, the OC Reg reports that
• [CHEMICALLY INDUCED GAYNESS] Nobel Prizes will be announced next week, so that means it’s time for the annual Ig Nobel Prizes, which were awarded Thursday night. This year’s winners were honored for research on the side effects of sword swallowing…, how sheets get wrinkled…, bed bugs…, extracting vanilla fragrance from cow dung…, rats’ inability to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards or Dutch forwards…, the “gay bomb” that may be used some day to make enemy soldiers find each other irresistible to each other…, problems in alphabetization created by the word “the”…, and the impact on appetite of a self-refilling bowl of soup….• [SPILLED MOLASSES AT CAL] About 40 protesters at the University of California at Berkeley assembled an eight-foot high Trojan Horse and spilled molasses on the sidewalk to protest the university’s new research collaboration with the energy giant BP….
"Dutch" is getting a new home in Orange...A bronze bust of President Ronald Reagan will be unveiled Oct. 10 on the Chapman University campus…The Reagan bust was chosen by donor Libby Pankey to commemorate the new Edgar and Elizabeth Pankey Chair in Media Arts.I like that. The “Pankey Chair.” Didn't Buckwheat call Spanky "Pankey"? Indeed he did.
Evidently, the list of busts at Chapman includes the following “renowned figures”:
• Martin Luther King Jr. [OK, but obvious]
• Cecil B. DeMille [an infamous rat bastard who made big, dumb movies]
• Ella Fitzgerald [OK, she was good]
• Milton Friedman [greed is good, too, evidently]
• Abraham Lincoln [freed the slaves and all]
• Mozart [OK, but they must be using a randomizer]
• George Washington [snooze]
Still waiting for that call. In my family, kids and pups and kittens are called "schlenkies."
Wow. Two more schlenks.
P.S.: why I admire John Ford but not Cecil B. DeMille (movies aside)
[Director John] Ford's attitude to McCarthyism in Hollywood is expressed by a story told by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A faction of the Directors Guild of America led by Cecil B. DeMille had tried to make it mandatory for every member to sign a loyalty oath. A whispering campaign was being conducted against Mankiewicz, then President of the Guild, alleging he had communist sympathies.—From Wikipedia entry for John Ford
At a crucial meeting of the Guild, DeMille's faction spoke for four hours until Ford spoke against DeMille and proposed a vote of confidence in Mankiewicz.... According to Mankiewicz, Ford's words were:
"My name's John Ford. I make Westerns. I don't think there's anyone in this room who knows more about what the American public wants than Cecil B. DeMille—and he certainly knows how to give it to them.
But I don't like you, C.B., and I don't like what you've been saying here tonight.”
I love that story. Peter Bogdanovich tells it best.
Oh, and Ford's motion? It passed.
UPDATE:
The Schlenkies have arrived! Two healthy girls, and no C-section! All is well, I'm told. I'm outa here. —Chunk
20 comments:
Roy, why do you hate your country?
It was Porky who called Spanky "Panky." Right?
Get it right.
You're all dismayed over sex among police employees, but Ford had a years-long affair with Hepburn. When people have sex, they often do so with co-workers. Would that sex were the problem in the SOCCCD. People having sex is so much more--shall we say--surmountable that greed, hatred, hubris, that kind of neutered drive for power that is Raghu and the board.
Gimme a break. Nobody's dismayed over sex among cops. But taking on the job of enforcing "professional conduct" as one violates those standards—well, that won't do at all, will it?
How come we see so much of that in the world of cops?
I say we insist that at least half of our force be women so we can break the back of that absurd retro macho culture of cops.
Congratulations on the birth of the babies :)
Hey 12:03...where does he say that he hates his country? I don't see it.
Congratulations for your new nieces!
Congrats Uncle Chunk!
Nothing wrong with being horny - Slick Willie set a new standard for that even when married to the "woody" killing bitch, hillery.
We'd all take Clinton back any time, a man with a libido and a brain. Those were the days, before we became the laughing stock of the world for (sort of electing) a chimp.
You're pathetic, 2:08, if you're willing to settle for that lying sack of shit, Clinton. Besides, W could kick "Slick Willie's" ass anytime but I'd put my money on fat ass Hillery if she entered the fight. She be bad!
Hey 5:46, get a clue. W's lies have killed tens of thousands, plunged this country into astronomical debt, and created the BIGGEST federal government in US history. Clinton's lie? Haha! Maybe if W got a BJ from a gay intern we could impeach him!
Men who own cats are Flaaaaming homos. A cat is like a dog, but gay -- it grooms itself constantly but never scratches itself, has a delicate touch except when it uses its nails, and whines to be fed. And just think about how you call a dog... 'Killer, come here! I said get your ass over here, Killer!' Now think about how you call a cat...'Bun-bun, come to daddy, snookums!' Jeeezus, you're fit to be framed, you're so gay.
Well, 7:00, you seem all interested in this gay stuff. As it's really on your mind, we're betting you'd like to be taking a high and hard one up the old sphincter, correct?
Not that there's anything wrong with it.
I'm not a "flaming homo," but what if I were thus flaming?
Your point is what exactly?
What are we to make of people who respond to something the don't like by pointing at the writer and saying, "hey everybody. He's a flaming homo."
--CW
Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!
Once again, I feel that I must go out and recruit some decent opponents, cuz they ones I've got now are just an embarrassment.
Smoldering, perhaps. Whispy bits of smoke, maybe. But flaming?
The twins (fraternal) are doing very well (about 7 lbs. each!) and so is mom, who is home and recovering nicely.
Catherine and Natalie are way cute. They seem to have intelligence and personalities already. But whaddoo I know.
--CW
I'll live with Clinton's lie any day over GWB's lie.
Clinton's cost the taxpayer around $40million, (and only because of an over zealous Mr. Starr and friends), plus, a dry cleaning bill. GWB's on the otherhand costs thousands of lives and billions of dollars of debt for the next few generations and, it painted a HUGE target on our collective backs for decades to come.
What a callous vicious unnecesarry policy and, for what? Oil.
Makes it be even that much more callous.
What a lovely coincidence is your use of FUBAR! I've just been having a debate with someone about it. Does anyone know for sure: Is it "Beyond All Recognition" or "Beyond All Repair"?
11:28--
I believe the FUBAR is a World War II term, like SNAFU. I've always known it to be an abbreviation for "FU beyond all recognition." At any rate, that's funnier than "beyond all repair," so if that's not right, it oughta be.
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