Kevin Smith (director of Zach and Miri Make a Porno and the new movie Cop Out with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan — more commonly known to me as Silent Bob, so that’s what I’m going to call him) went ballistic today on Twitter then on his own podcast and blog over an incident that happened on a flight.  Silent Bob got asked to leave a Southwest Airline flight because he was too fat (not in those words, of course).  Silent Bob usually purchases two seats on flights because, according to him, “its just more comfortable” and he “can afford it” so he doesn’t usually run into this problem.  However, this time he got bumped to a different flight and only got one seat.  After he was already seated the flight attendant asked him to deplane because, to her judgement, the armrests could not easily go down all the way, a no-no for Southwest Airlines.

Silent Bob was, of course, enraged.  He admitted to the flight attendant that yes, he is fat, but that he isn’t so fat that he couldn’t fit comfortably in his seat.  After his social media outcries Southwest apologized twice (once as a Twitter response to Silent Bob).  Additionally, Silent Bob was able to get on a later Southwest flight, where he Twitpic-ed himself seated with both armrests down, so clearly the flight attendant judged incorrectly.

This is getting a lot of media buzz because Canada just passed a law (of course) that says if a passenger must get a second seat because they are overweight then the second seat is free.  Oh liberal Canada, that doesn’t even make sense.  Its another seat and it costs money.  If you bring a kid on a plane and they take up an extra seat it costs extra.  If you bring your large self on the plane it should cost extra, too.

Passenger advocacy groups (which I had no idea existed and who must not be doing that great of a job because we all have to pay that new extra fee for checked luggage… I’m just saying) are saying that this just goes to show that the airlines need more concrete guidelines so that flight attendants are not making subjective judgments on the fatness at which you can’t ride a plane.  They also say that with the rise of obesity in the U.S., the airlines should install special “obese” rows reserved for passengers that might need that extra room.  My thoughts… 1.) Its interesting that Silent Bob is not even so overweight that he really couldn’t get down the armrests, but he’s about to be the face for every obese advocacy cause.  2.) Tweeting something off the wall and making yourself the wronged victim right when you have a movie coming out is great PR.  Silent Bob got tons of Twitter followers off of this.  3.) Don’t fly Southwest if you’re fat, those seats are tight even if you can get the armrests down.  4.) Only fly first class if you’re fat because its more comfortable, you get better food anyways and its probably cheaper than buying the two seats you know you need to purchase so that your thigh won’t be touching me for the next 6 hours.

I should avoid saying the obvious about the U.S. really having a problem when people get to talking about obese rows on planes… but it really needs to be said.

There is a billboard on I-35 in Minnesota that is leaving people with quite a few questions all because it ask one simple question about former president George Bush:

My resounding answer:  Ummmm, hell to the naw!

Nobody seems to know who paid for the billboard or why they would pay for it.  Is it satire, is it a joke, or is somebody really serious about this?  I mean, obviously, they can’t possibly be serious about it, but you never know where people’s heads are at these days.

The questions this billboard raises for me are: Why would you even ask?  Do you miss being lied to ?  Do you miss mispronounced words and slightly incoherent sentences?  Do you miss nobody paying attention while Wall Street runs wild?  Do you miss randomly made up reasons for wars?  Do you miss enough funding to occupy Iraq, but not enough funding to provide emergency aid or to run FEMA?  Where were they going with that?  etc.

I hope this billboard doesn’t start popping up in other places.

You think you’ve heard it all until you hear some extra WTF shit. Some overweight (350 lbs) woman accidently killed her boyfriend (126 lbs) by sitting on him. Homegirl got away with just probation. If you ask me, they shoulda made it mandatory for her to shed some pounds so no bullshit like that happens again. What a way to go.. SMH. RIP bro, damn.

Michael Eric Dyson gets a big “C’mon Son!” for this comment.  Once again, can President Obama run the country?  He can deal with every race thing under the sun when he is caking from all of his book deals and university graduation speeches after he is done being president.  All y’all need to calm down.  You too, Michael Eric Dyson.  Great way to make a point about dealing with race in a positive and constructive way by using de-constructive stereotypes.

Sometimes I wonder if there will ever be a time when this president will be able to just do his job.  I seems like every couple of months President Obama has to accept an apology from somebody for some race related comment or he gets disrespected in a way that no other president would have, and ,although its not explicit, race is usually the reason.  It seems like the man can’t win.  For godsakes he is trying to run the country.  If you were on an airplane, would you do things to undermine the pilot because the way he looks makes you uncomfortable?  No, you would hope that he gets the plane safely on the ground and if he needed your help you would pitch in if possible.  Yet, we are all in this country together and we have people who are so stubborn they would sacrifice the good of everybody just to undermine the leader.

Its unfortunate that Senator Harry Reid, who is right now in the process of trying to forge a health care reform bill that will actually have a chance of being adopted, made the comments he did that have now been published in the book, Game Change.  In a private conversation Senator Reid stated that he believed that presedential candidate (at the time) Obama would have a chance of winning because he is “light-skinned” and doesn’t speak with a “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to.”  Reid is definitely in the wrong and reckless for his word choice. However, I have to wonder if he was speaking about the viability of an African-American candidate because, in that context, his comments make sense although they are insensitive.  Reid should have been a lot more choosy about his words, but we can’t say that he lied.

Now the Republicans are all over Reid’s comments, made over two years ago, and some in his state are calling for him to step down.  Ummm, excuse me, but none of you have asked Republicans to step down for making racists comments, and there have been more than a few.  Its atrocious how they keep forcing controversies and contentions to distract people from the real issues and many times  race has been the main distraction.  Reid has apologized.  Obama has had to take time out of his busy job as Commander-in-Chief & head policy maker to publicly accept the apology.  Let Reid’s constituents decide if they’re unhappy with him and let President Obama do his job.

So there’s this KFC commercial that aired in Australia whose racial content is up for debate.

There’s a white guy in a crowd of black people. The distressed looking white guy says: “Need a tip when you’re in an awkward situation?” He then relieves the awkward situation by passing around a bucket of fried chicken to the black people.

Hmmm, by America’s standards, that commercial would flat out be deemed racist but KFC is saying that the history in Australia makes it anything but.

In the world of Cricket, the Australia team and the West Indian team are rivals. So instead of the commercial looking like a white guy surrounded by black people, KFC intended for it to look like an Australia fan surrounded by West Indian fans.

A rep for KFC said that they were aware of the cultural stereotype in the US and that’s why the commercial was never authorized to be released here.

I understand where KFC is coming from but some things are better left untouched.

Oh Lawd say it ain’t so. The lace front epidemic has corrupted the infants already.

Well if this isn’t some hoodrat shit right here I don’t know what is. Why in the world would someone do this right? Check what the mother of this po chile had to say:

“It’s never too early for my baby to start looking glamorous like Beyonce! wouldn’t be caught dead without my lacefront and my baby won’t either!”

I just can’t.

Shoutout to Prime Minis for the heads up!

Two watchdog groups have been in the process of suing the George W. Bush White House for faulty e-mail record keeping.  By Federal law White House administrations are suppossed to keep records of all communications that are done for official business, including e-mails.  The Bush White House claimed that they had kept records of all e-mail communications during the 8 years of the Bush presidency, but ummm, that must not be the case because computer technicians have uncovered 22 million “lost” e-mails most of which were simply miscategorized.

DAMN! This is the federal government!  It makes me feel a little uncomfortable that they didn’t do something as simple as set up e-mail rules for categorizing and archiving messages and didn’t buy some really big hard drives.  I mean, I’m no computer technician or anything, but I just feel like this a problem that can be fixed once its discovered.  In 2003 the White House actually tried to bring in Microsoft to find some of the lost e-mails.  However, the issues weren’t brought up publicly until the 2006 investigation over the outing of a CIA operative.  So I guess in the meantime they just sorta kept losing e-mails?  Anyways, the found e-mails will undergo an archiving process and the ones deemed okay for the public will be made public by 2014.

Aware of the issues, the Obama administration is making great strides to address saving e-mail communication.  President Obama, please setup your auto-archive up so that you don’t find yourself dealing with this ish a full year after you’re out of office.

An Ohio bank robber straight gobbles up a paper police pull from his pocket and place on the hood of their cruiser.  Allegedly the paper was the note the robber had given to the bank teller to get the money.  For some reason this has me dying laughing.  I of course don’t admire his robbing a bank, but I can’t help admiring his quick thinking!

In Miley Cyrus news, Miley has never heard a Jay-Z song. Other than saying #cmonson to this foolishness, I’d like to ask her if she has ever been to a party in the USA? In case you haven’t heard her #1 single “Party in the USA” here it is, notice when she mentions Jay-Z:

Okay, cool. So she likes to party to Jay-Z. Well Miley, in the words of Jay “We don’t believe you, you need more people”. Apparently, she can’t even mention a Jay-Z song since she has never heard one (Cut to about 2:50):

Wow… you have never heard a Jay-Z song because you “don’t listen to Pop music”. She can’t be serious…F

Not really, but the Philadelphia Inquirer accidently ran a Macy’s ad congratulating the Phillies on their World Series win on Monday morning.  Um, wishful thinking?  And the Philadelphia Inquirer writers must have World Series on the brain because in a headline on the same page they were trying to write “Axelrod” and wrote “Alexrod.”

Rwwrraaaaahhhhh…

Better yet:  Na tempen yahhh, baba heat tema bahhh, sit tom penna yo, tema bomba hemmy nah tem byah, temneh namya hemnah te byah

Okay but seriously cheetah bangs should be left to zoophiles. (Jay voice) EWWWWW

The October Issue of French Vogue features an entire shoot of a pale-skinned, blond haired model… not unusual for any fashion magazine, right?  The unusual (at least for 2009) part is that the model is painted brown.  I'm not talking had-a-bad-fake-bake brown.  I'm talking I-was-born-in-Nigeria-to-Nigerian-parents brown.  

At first glance I would just assume this girl was black.  Which leads me to say… why isn't she black?  Why get a white model just to make her look black?  I understand that this is fashion and art and blah blah blah, but there is no getting around the fact that French Vogue was trying to make the model look black, much like the offensive practice of blackface.  I understand they aren't using the pictures to make fun of black people, but I can't help thinking about a white guy painting himself black and singing spirituals in a southern drawl… ridiculous.  

Maybe they were being artistic, like these couture pieces are so epic (they don't look so epic to me) that putting on a whole new skin matches their magnitude.  Maybe they didn't see how this could be be offensive.  Maybe the point is that representing another race shouldn't be taken as racist in this day-and-age and that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  Maybe the point is that dark skin is beautiful.  If the aim is to actually represent black as beautiful, though, I would like to have seen a black model get credit for being ALREADY black and beautiful… without the paint.  I can honestly say I'm not completely offended when I just try and enjoy it for the art, but I am confused. Maybe I don't understand art like I thought I did.  However, I do understand a publicity stunt.  Anna Wintour would know better than to pull something like this.  I never liked the looks of that Carine Roitfeld (Editor-in-Chief of French Vogue) and here she is just trying to kick up some controversy to sale her probably ailing publication – from now on I will refer to her as the Devil wears Dior.  SMH

S Dot Tell'Em

"Who you textin? Jesus?" Ha!

A Snuggie Runway Show- I really can't believe that they actually did this, but they did. I mean when PoprotziDL and I bought ourselves bright blue Snuggies at the local Bed, Bath and Beyond we naturally had that same reaction, but we kept the idea to FB (and one post on GFD). They even had the dog modeling his Snuggie. The people at Snuggie are pulling a Nick Cannon by having a got damn fashion show:

Check Time.com for the slideshow. I'm not gonna front like I ain't get excited to see the one with pockets though…thats hot.

CIA

GQ Magazine recently released its list of the top 25 "Douchiest" Colleges.  I doubt this is a very objective list, but the people at GQ aren't known for having weak opinions on anything and they're probably pretty accurate although I know some of you are going to seriously disagree. I don't want to be mean, but if your college is on the list and you don't think that your school is douchey, there's a good chance that your one of the douches that got it on the douchey list… sorry to break the news to you.  I have to say I'm surprised that my alma mater, UPenn, didn't make it on this list at all, but I'm pleasantly surprised.  Maybe that year we fell in the U.S. News ranking decreased our douchiness enough to get us off this list – a fair trade?  

Here are the top 10:

10. U of Colorado

9. Charter College, Wasilla (where Palin is from)

8. Rollins College

7. Amherst College

6. Bob Jones

5. Deep Springs

4. Harvard

3. Princeton

2. Duke

1. Brown – but Brown can't be douchey… that little girl from Harry Potter goes there.  You know, Hermione (Emma Watson)?

I'm a little surprised about the top 2 and 5 – 8 seem really random.  Visit Men.Style.com to see the rest of list and get explanations.  They're as sarcastic as we've come to expect from GQ.

S Dot Tell'Em

I have a lot of guy friends and when one of them takes the plunge and decides to wife shorty, he inadvertently puts his facebook wall on death-row.

Confused? I don't know why because this shit happens all too frequently. But nonetheless, I will break this down for you.

Man wifes girl.
Man and girl are happy go lucky.
Female writes ambiguous message on man's facebook wall.
Girl reads said message.
Girl throws shots at Man and accuses him of cheating.
Man convinces girl that nothing is going on.
Girl reluctantly believes Man and the two move on.
Man's facebook wall gets deactivated.
RIP Facebook wall.

Now I know you've either experienced this directly or you have a close friend who has. Facebook walls are havens for potential relationship demise and there's usually one general reason for this….BITCHES ARE GRIMEY!

Now I'm not gonna say that every female that writes something like "hey babe, I miss you" on an unavailable man's facebook wall is looking to ruin a relationship because I myself have made this mistake before.

Like I said before, I have alot of guy friends and sometimes I have to actively remind myself to stir clear of post 10pm calls or wall posts whose motives can easily be misunderstood by girlfriends.

That's me though. Grimey bitches will intentionally write slick shit to try to throw and a monkey wrench in a perfectly good relationship. These are the bitches writing ish like "hey boo, i had fun last night -Veronica" Bitch where, you going with that smiley face?? Knowing damn well that she just so happened to be at the same barbeque as the dude, she gotta try and blow it up.

Unfortunately, this shit works because it'll have wifey confronting her man about this Veronica slut and an argument will undoubtedly occur. This is why guys are taking their facebook walls down to avoid this shit all together. But when he does that, NOW it's because he has something to hide. It's a lose-lose situation brother, I'm sorry to have to tell you that. The best thing you can do is send out a mass message to all your female friends and ask that their little hot asses behave themselves.

And to all you knee grows who AREN'T living right and your reckless female wall posts are there because YOUR ASS is out there doing dirt –fuck you, you deserve the trouble haha.

PopRotzi DL

Remember when your mom would make you wash your hands after touching money?  She would look at you with that I-am-in-on-an-adult-secret-you-couldn't-even-fathom look and say, "you don't know where that money has been."  I always thought my mom was overreacting so one day I asked, "really? where? (I was such a smart-ass brat)."  The disturbing answer was crack whores.  

After I found out I decided to not take my chances with this just being an urban myth.  I never touched money without washing my hands, always watched fast food workers like a hawk to make sure that they didn't touch money and then touch my food.  However, over the past couple years I've gotten pretty lax.  No more!  Scientists did a study on money from 30 cities across the world, including cities in China and Japan and, Its been proven! 90% of U.S. money has traces of cocaine on it.  Which means it probably has traces of other things they didn't test for on it, which leads us back to feeling like our moms' could've been right about that whole crack whore thing, which means its time to get paranoid about handling money again. Gross!  

P.S. Canada is comparable to the U.S., but only 15% to 20% of Chinese and Japanese currency has traces of cocaine.

S Dot Tell'Em

Remember when your mom would make you wash your hands after touching money?  She would look at you with that I-am-in-on-an-adult-secret-you-couldn't-even-fathom look and say, "you don't know where that money has been."  I always thought my mom was overreacting so one day I asked, "really? where? (I was such a smart-ass brat)."  The disturbing answer was crack whores.  

After I found out I decided to not take my chances with this just being an urban myth.  I never touched money without washing my hands, always watched fast food workers like a hawk to make sure that they didn't touch money and then touch my food.  However, over the past couple years I've gotten pretty lax.  No more!  Scientists did a study on money from 30 cities across the world, including cities in China and Japan and, Its been proven! 90% of U.S. money has traces of cocaine on it.  Which means it probably has traces of other things they didn't test for on it, which leads us back to feeling like our moms' could've been right about that whole crack whore thing, which means its time to get paranoid about handling money again. Gross!  

P.S. Canada is comparable to the U.S., but only 15% to 20% of Chinese and Japanese currency has traces of cocaine.

S Dot Tell'Em

Well got damn. Sara Stokes from Diddy's Da Band got arrested earlier this month for stabbing her husband/manager, Tony. Here's what TMZ is reporting…

 Sara stormed out of the house after arguing with husband Tony — she tripped, fell down and accused him of doing it. She hurt her head in the fall — grabbed a knife and stabbed Tony in the arm — while their 3 kids watched.

What in the tom fuckery? That doesn't even make sense. But here's what Sara's lawyer had to say…

“Sara and Tony have a very passionate and loving relationship that on August 2, while having an evening of fun, she slipped and fell, hitting her head heavily on the ground and somehow in the process of helping her Tony got injured.”

Riiight. Lemme tell you what really happened. Noone slipped. Noone accidently fell and blamed someone else. Those two were Ike&Tina-ing it up and Tony socked it to her face and Sara said f alla that and stabbed homeboy. I'll put money on that.

Heaven help these washed up stars.

PopRotzi DL