It is time for another
installment of “Bits and Pieces,” where I look at some stories that need to be
looked at, but in smaller doses than in a full Rant.
So without further ado, as Jackie Gleason used to say from Miami Beach …
“And away we go!”
Gabby Petito Case Drags On: I don’t think that this case is going to end as soon as some people would like, and there appears to have been some blunders made by the police to make this an odyssey rather than a short tale of madness.
Look, I know we are not talking about the New York City Police Department or some other big city police department, but the cops in that part of Florida or wherever they were first pulled over should have done more to find out what was ticking in fiancé Brian Laundrie’s head before leaving the dim-witted couple to their own means.
And if you need more proof to the pudding that this case has more of a Mayberry feel to it than an NYPD feel, the authorities can’t find Laundrie—this guy, whose mental capacity has to be questioned, has thus far eluded authorities.
And his family isn’t talking, via advice from their attorney. And they have no obligation to talk, other than a civic responsibility, but once they talk, once they open their mouths, they are open to police questioning and possible implication, so why bother … even if they do know something that no one else knows.
Doing the right thing as a human being has nothing to do with doing the right thing by our laws, so why should they tell authorities anything at this point in time? Heck, it is only their son and their sibling who is implicated in this mess … not a good enough reason, I guess.
And then we have another edge to this, where certain people and organizations are coming out of the woodwork stating that this case should not be getting the level of coverage it is getting, and it is getting it because the deceased is a white girl.
They say if she was a black girl, or even a black man, the case wouldn’t get a second look from authorities.
Of course, racism from certain quarters is permitted now, and rather than lambast these obvious racists for saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time, the media is almost giving these imbeciles credence to what they are saying, simply by posting their views and having them analyzed.
Bringing race into a non-racial story is always a slippery slope, and let me tell you, it is just so inappropriate here.
This story is getting the coverage it is getting mainly because it has strong ties to the New York Metropolitan Area, the largest news and media center perhaps in the world.
The story began on Long Island, and once the local New York news media picked up on it, it almost had to go national.
It is like in the old days, when a record got played on New York’s WABC Top 40 station—the most popular radio station in the country, one that you could easily listen to not just in New York, but as far away as Florida and into the Midwest—it almost certainly became a hit.
The same thing here, so stop with the race baiting, and with everything, no matter what the subject, having to do with race.
Enough already.
Elvira Comes Out as a Lesbian or as a Bisexual or as ???: Heck, I don’t even know what to say about this story that hasn’t already been said, but I am going to say a few words about it anyway.
In her recently released biography (yup, of course the timing is perfect to sell even more books), Cassandra Peterson, better known to all as Elvira, the sexy and fun goddess of whatever you want to call it, has come out as being gay, but I—and I think she—is confused at what level of gayness she is actually at in her life.
As she tells it, she was in a normal, heterosexual marriage with a man, had a kid with this guy, and then the marriage ended. OK, I have been there, done that myself, but here is where things get very weird.
The actress states that during the worst days of her breakup, she would go to the gym, and she started to admire this person from afar for “his” manly attributes, including his muscles and his stacked body.
OK …
She continued to admire this “guy,” and started to fall for “him” from afar.
Then, she worked up the guts to talk to him, and she found out that this guy, whose manly attributes she was very attracted to, was, in fact, a woman!
They worked up a friendly relationship, and then one night, this person came to her house, with no other place to go after her own relationship went sour.
The actress let her in as any friend would, and one thing led to another, and these two people, both in the midst of broken relationships, finally shared a bed with each other, and as they say, the rest is history, and for 19 years, this has been going on with few people knowing about it.
First off, yes, I was personally pretty surprised, but I continue to believe that Cassandra/Elvira is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, and this continues as she has turned 70 years of age.
But I have to say that it appears that she is still in some denial about her sexual proclivities, because she continues to state that she fell in love with this person’s manly attributes, almost saying that while the person is a woman, she was still taken by the “guy stuff” that the person possessed.
And also, although doctors have thrown out such a theory, this almost sounds like this is a lesbian relationship out of convenience, and that in a weird way, the actress is not a lesbian or bisexual at all, as the two began to share a bed because they were both down and out and fell into each others’ arms due to common need.
Look, it is what it is, it will certainly pick up sales of her autobiography, and the very reason she said she never revealed this to anyone—she had to “protect” her sexy alter ego Elvira and her appeal to men—is the very thing that in some eyes makes her even sexier now.
I don’t get the whole thing, to be very honest with you.
I Go For My MRI Today: Land sakes alive, the day has finally come, and I will get an MRI on my ailing left leg.
I have already been told that through a simple X-ray, doctors have found that I probably have a meniscus tear, but the MRI will give them a better image to work from.
Funny, since the first two of three days of experiencing this—where the pain was enormous and I could barely walk—I feel much better, and the pain has pretty much subsided to not a constant one, but one that tells me that it is there from time to time.
Now, we will find out if this is what they think it is, but let me tell you, if this is what it is, I can certainly learn to live with it.
I am not scheduled to run any 40-yard dashes in the coming weeks, nor marathons, and my days as a guy trying to be an athlete are over, so what, me worry?
That’s it for this installment of “Bits and Pieces.”
Speak to you again tomorrow.
So without further ado, as Jackie Gleason used to say from Miami Beach …
“And away we go!”
Gabby Petito Case Drags On: I don’t think that this case is going to end as soon as some people would like, and there appears to have been some blunders made by the police to make this an odyssey rather than a short tale of madness.
Look, I know we are not talking about the New York City Police Department or some other big city police department, but the cops in that part of Florida or wherever they were first pulled over should have done more to find out what was ticking in fiancé Brian Laundrie’s head before leaving the dim-witted couple to their own means.
And if you need more proof to the pudding that this case has more of a Mayberry feel to it than an NYPD feel, the authorities can’t find Laundrie—this guy, whose mental capacity has to be questioned, has thus far eluded authorities.
And his family isn’t talking, via advice from their attorney. And they have no obligation to talk, other than a civic responsibility, but once they talk, once they open their mouths, they are open to police questioning and possible implication, so why bother … even if they do know something that no one else knows.
Doing the right thing as a human being has nothing to do with doing the right thing by our laws, so why should they tell authorities anything at this point in time? Heck, it is only their son and their sibling who is implicated in this mess … not a good enough reason, I guess.
And then we have another edge to this, where certain people and organizations are coming out of the woodwork stating that this case should not be getting the level of coverage it is getting, and it is getting it because the deceased is a white girl.
They say if she was a black girl, or even a black man, the case wouldn’t get a second look from authorities.
Of course, racism from certain quarters is permitted now, and rather than lambast these obvious racists for saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time, the media is almost giving these imbeciles credence to what they are saying, simply by posting their views and having them analyzed.
Bringing race into a non-racial story is always a slippery slope, and let me tell you, it is just so inappropriate here.
This story is getting the coverage it is getting mainly because it has strong ties to the New York Metropolitan Area, the largest news and media center perhaps in the world.
The story began on Long Island, and once the local New York news media picked up on it, it almost had to go national.
It is like in the old days, when a record got played on New York’s WABC Top 40 station—the most popular radio station in the country, one that you could easily listen to not just in New York, but as far away as Florida and into the Midwest—it almost certainly became a hit.
The same thing here, so stop with the race baiting, and with everything, no matter what the subject, having to do with race.
Enough already.
Elvira Comes Out as a Lesbian or as a Bisexual or as ???: Heck, I don’t even know what to say about this story that hasn’t already been said, but I am going to say a few words about it anyway.
In her recently released biography (yup, of course the timing is perfect to sell even more books), Cassandra Peterson, better known to all as Elvira, the sexy and fun goddess of whatever you want to call it, has come out as being gay, but I—and I think she—is confused at what level of gayness she is actually at in her life.
As she tells it, she was in a normal, heterosexual marriage with a man, had a kid with this guy, and then the marriage ended. OK, I have been there, done that myself, but here is where things get very weird.
The actress states that during the worst days of her breakup, she would go to the gym, and she started to admire this person from afar for “his” manly attributes, including his muscles and his stacked body.
OK …
She continued to admire this “guy,” and started to fall for “him” from afar.
Then, she worked up the guts to talk to him, and she found out that this guy, whose manly attributes she was very attracted to, was, in fact, a woman!
They worked up a friendly relationship, and then one night, this person came to her house, with no other place to go after her own relationship went sour.
The actress let her in as any friend would, and one thing led to another, and these two people, both in the midst of broken relationships, finally shared a bed with each other, and as they say, the rest is history, and for 19 years, this has been going on with few people knowing about it.
First off, yes, I was personally pretty surprised, but I continue to believe that Cassandra/Elvira is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, and this continues as she has turned 70 years of age.
But I have to say that it appears that she is still in some denial about her sexual proclivities, because she continues to state that she fell in love with this person’s manly attributes, almost saying that while the person is a woman, she was still taken by the “guy stuff” that the person possessed.
And also, although doctors have thrown out such a theory, this almost sounds like this is a lesbian relationship out of convenience, and that in a weird way, the actress is not a lesbian or bisexual at all, as the two began to share a bed because they were both down and out and fell into each others’ arms due to common need.
Look, it is what it is, it will certainly pick up sales of her autobiography, and the very reason she said she never revealed this to anyone—she had to “protect” her sexy alter ego Elvira and her appeal to men—is the very thing that in some eyes makes her even sexier now.
I don’t get the whole thing, to be very honest with you.
I Go For My MRI Today: Land sakes alive, the day has finally come, and I will get an MRI on my ailing left leg.
I have already been told that through a simple X-ray, doctors have found that I probably have a meniscus tear, but the MRI will give them a better image to work from.
Funny, since the first two of three days of experiencing this—where the pain was enormous and I could barely walk—I feel much better, and the pain has pretty much subsided to not a constant one, but one that tells me that it is there from time to time.
Now, we will find out if this is what they think it is, but let me tell you, if this is what it is, I can certainly learn to live with it.
I am not scheduled to run any 40-yard dashes in the coming weeks, nor marathons, and my days as a guy trying to be an athlete are over, so what, me worry?
That’s it for this installment of “Bits and Pieces.”
Speak to you again tomorrow.
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