Lindsay Lohan Has Ruined a Perfectly Good Song

I love Lindsay Lohan's song "Rumors." At the time of its release, it was a rollicking retort to the media circus. Now, with her arrest for drunk driving and cocaine possession after chasing her assistant, who was fleeing from Lohan down the highway, it just seems like a cry for help.




Saturday, stepping into the club
The music makes me wanna tell the DJ, turn it up
I feel the energy all around
And my body can't stop moving to the sound

But I can tell that you're watching me
And you're probably gonna write what you didn't see
Well, I just need a little space to breathe
Can you please respect my privacy

Why can't you just let me do
The things I wanna do
I just wanna be me
I don't understand
Why would you wanna bring me down
I'm only having fun
I'm gonna live my life (but not the way you want me to) ...

I just need to free my mind (my mind)
Just wanna dance and have a good time (good time) ...

Senator Hatch Supports Adultery and Prostitution, but not Gay Americans.

Bullshit, Senator Hatch.

"'I've never judged a human being on those type of issues,' attested Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)" about Senator David Vitter's (R-Utah) recent announcement that his number was on the DC Madam's call list.

No, Senator Hatch, you won't judge a fellow rich white heterosexual male Republican if he cheats on his wife while championing typical BS "family values" from the Senate floor. You don't mind when heterosexuals form "Big Love" style families with two or ten moms ("I'm not here to justify polygamy. All I can say is, I know people in Hildale who are polygamists who are very fine people"). But you will judge and justify denying an entire population of people based on their sexual orientation. To you, gays are bad, indecent, and unclean. According to HRC's congressional scorecard, when your JOB is judging issues that affect human beings you have no problems judging based on sex; you vote 100% against gay and lesbian issues.

I have been thinking recently that there is this fundamental divide between progressives and Republicans. Progressives get SOOO mad at hypocrisy, as if hypocrisy itself is the issue. We consider hypocrisy itself enough evidence to show an argument to be wrong. The problem with that is, Republicans don't give a shit about hypocrisy. From the White House to your neighbor's house, it's part of normal operating procedure. Hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty (you know, when facts and reality get in the way of even the basic structure of your argument, you just ignore them), and outright lies are what fuels Republican talking points.

Forget about hypocrisy! Republicans don't care about it. The media doesn't care about it. As far as I'm concerned, Sen. Hatch wasn't being hypocritical, he was stating his support for Vitter's illegal, adulterous behavior.

Face it. Republican politicians know that "traditional family values" is a myth. It just happens to be a high-and-mighty myth that wins them xenophobic votes. When a party's fundamental tactic is deceit, is it any wonder all the perverts getting caught in office are Republicans?

Where is the Love?

I have been discovering meanings to songs I've been listening to for years. This one doesn't actually fit in that category because I am thinking about songs that are like 30 years old. But I DID discover the song a bit late (I tend to do that). A few years after this song came out I finally litened to all of the lyrics. It's amazing. Other than the spiritual tones, these are the thoughts that run through my mind sometimes. Where is the love?


What's wrong with the world, mama?
People living like they ain't got no mama
I think the whole world's addicted to the drama
Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma
Overseas yeah we tryin to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA the big CIA the Bloods and the Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate
Yeah madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
You gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all

People killing people dying
Children hurtin you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?

It just ain't the same all ways have changed
New days are strange. Is the world the insane?
If love and peace so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations dropping bombs
Chemical gases filling lungs of little ones
With ongoing suffering
As the youth die young
So ask yourself is the loving really gone?
So I can ask myself really what is going wrong
With this world that we living in
People keep on giving in
Makin wrong decisions
Only visions of them livin and
Not respecting each other
Denyin thy brother
The wars' going on but the reasons' undercover
The truth is kept secret
Swept under the rug
If you never know truth
Then you never know love
Where's the love y'all? (I don't know)
Where's the truth y'all? (I don't know)
Where's the love y'all?

People killing people dying
Children hurt and you hear them crying
Can practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father father father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older y'all people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin
Selfishness got us followin the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema
Whatever happened to the values of humanity?
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality?
Instead of spreading love, we're spreading anomosity
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down
It's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under
I gotta keep my faith alive, 'til love is found

Ask yourself... Where is the love?

Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?

One world. That's all we got. One world.
And something's wrong with it...