Lost in Celebrity: Jon and Kate Detonate

It’s clear: Jon and Kate shouldn’t procreate. The “grocery-aisle-reading” public know Jon and Kate Gosselin from the tabloid tsunami over the reality TV couple’s impending divorce and apparent infidelity. For the rest of the fortuitous one percent who don’t know who I’m talking about — “Jon and Kate Plus 8” is a program in its fifth season on cable channel TLC.  he show was originally intended to chronicle two stressed-out, but steadfast, parents who attempt to raise a pair adorable twins and a set of sextuplets in the ‘burbs. ”It might be a crazy life,” mommy Kate says in the opening credits, “but it’s our life” adds daddy Jon. But lately, ‘crazy’ means Kate discovering Jon sleeping with babysitters, tabloid reporters and a bevy of bar room broads. Meantime, Jon calls the cops on Kate to throw her off the property during daddy’s visiting hours. Yep — it’s just good ol’ American family fun on TLC — “The Learning Channel.”

Thankfully, these gory details aren’t directly addressed on the program – at least, not yet. Instead, the show attempts to behave as if viewers are still interested in mommy’s camping trip, or her recipe for Moose Munch, or dad’s go-kart race. Hard to believe just a year ago, Jon and Kate were featured giving marital tips, writing a book about touching family moments — even renewing wedding vows in Hawaii. This was actually when everyone might have become suspicious — since when did renewing vows half way around the world become so important to a family of eight kids? Since Mom caught Dad bedding the chick from the biker bar down the street.  (more…)

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Tags: divorce, Gosselin, infidelity, Jon and Kate Plus 8, reality
Posted Aug 20th 2009 at 6:55 am in Culture, Entertainment | 20700264 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jmeath/2009/08/20/jon-and-kate-separate/Lost+in+Celebrity%3A+Jon+and+Kate+Detonate2009-08-20+13%3A55%3A36Jason+Killian+Meath

Reflections on Marriage

I suppose after 15 years of marriage I should stop wondering aloud how on earth I ended up with this woman. Least ways I should stop wondering aloud when my lovely wife is within earshot. Not that after so many years it matters much, but the truth is that I don’t know how we ended up together.

We had our first date 20 years ago and if anyone at the time had told me that the silly girl with the wild red hair would be the mother of my children and my life’s partner I would have laughed out loud. Bachelorhood was too much fun. Besides I had a very definite mental picture of what my wife would look like – what her personality would be – and frankly she just didn’t match it. The workings of the heart continue to amaze me. The brain plans and strategizes and works overtime attempting to get the loins and heart on the same page. The loins are always eager to cooperate; the heart, however, is not a team player. The heart is constantly going off on its own mucking up the works. Such was the case for me. In time I found myself longing for the silly redhead. All my intellectualizing failed to win my hearts cooperation. I realized I couldn’t live without her.

She of course tells a different story. According to her she knew after our first date that I was her one and only; that no other man would do. Honestly, who can blame her? (more…)

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Tags: "What's Love Got to Do With It", Bachelorhood, divorce, Langton Hughes, marriage
Posted Aug 3rd 2009 at 5:02 pm in Culture, Other | 19797047 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/08/03/reflections-on-marraige/Reflections+on+Marriage2009-08-04+00%3A02%3A11Joseph+C.+Phillips

Lonewolf Diaries: Marriage Is for Suckers and Ugly Folk

If you’ve been taking notes from such brilliant minds as Bill Maher, Cameron Diaz or ever taken a moment to observe Hollywood in the past few decades, you’d know that marriage is a dead institution. I mean, who gets married anymore (unless you’re gay)?! It’s like, “Hellooooooooooo”!

I happened to catch Cameron “My Career is Over Thanks to HD” Diaz discussing the intricacies of marriage on “Real Time with Bill Maher” this week. A lot of tinseltown jibber jabber ensued but you needn’t be bored with the self-indulgent details. Cameron basically proclaimed that she’s glad that she’d never gotten married because she “definitely would have been divorced (multiple times).”  She just needed to do what was right for her and that that was constantly changing. Maher, of course, agreed and praised Cameron in her wisdom for having learned to put herself first and foremost, before all others in her life. Marriage can’t work because you have to look out for “Numero Uno”… That’s the Hollywood way! (more…)

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Tags: "Family Values", Bill Maher, cameron diaz, divorce, marriage
Posted Jun 30th 2009 at 5:14 pm in Celebrity News, Lone Wolf Diaries | 17439816 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/06/30/lonewolf-diaries-marriage-is-for-suckers-and-ugly-folk/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Marriage+Is+for+Suckers+and+Ugly+Folk2009-07-01+00%3A14%3A03Steven+Crowder

Daily Gut: The Military, the Media, and the Martini

Now imagine you were somebody who only got your news from USA Today. What a weird worldview you’d have.

For one, you’d think colorful pie charts solve every problem, and you’d also think our military consists of nothing but troubled head cases. In the past year or so, USA Today has done little more than paint our military as rife with suicide, mental health problems, divorce, troubled kids and of course – alcohol and drug abuse.

Let’s look at the most recent USA Today piece on alcohol abuse. The paper reported that “Soldiers…with alcoholism or alcohol abuse, such as binge drinking, increased from 6.1 per 1,000 soldiers in 2003 to an estimated 11.4 as of March 31.”

That is disturbing, no doubt – and it’s all from military data. But what happens if you compare that figure to our general population? Well, according to the National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 15.5 percent of the general population report episodes of binge drinking in 2006 – and for males alone – the number jumps over 20 percent. (more…)

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Tags: alcohol, alcohol abuse, binge drinking, divorce, drug abuse
Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 6:40 am in Daily Gut, Media Criticism, Military, News | 171282One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/26/daily-gut-the-military-the-media-and-the-martini/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Military%2C+the+Media%2C+and+the+Martini2009-06-26+13%3A40%3A56Greg+Gutfeld

A Father’s Day Note to the President: Mind Your Own Business

I’m far from a perfect father. For example, just the other day, on my watch, my one-year old, Ben, who is now rumblin’, bumblin’ and stumblin’ all over the house, took a dive on the corner of our entertainment center and gave himself a nice shiner.  Within a few minutes, he’d forgotten about it and was wobbling around on two legs again, proud of his newly acquired mobility.  But I felt bad for not catching him. I suppose the President, who made it a point on Saturday to pontificate to us dads about what kind of fathers we should be just ahead of Father’s Day, has never missed either of his daughters just before they got an “ouchie.” If neither Sasha nor Malia have ever scraped a knee, had a black eye, or even fractured a bone, then I guess he can pretend to be the perfect daddy. But then, you could also argue that without said minor injuries, the First Kids probably haven’t lived much of a life.

President Obama’s righteousness about fatherhood comes from the recognition that his own dad was, indeed, a douchebag. He knocked up Obama’s mom and quickly fled the country, only meeting his son once, and bringing him a basketball. There are fathers like that out there, but they’re few and far between. And they deserve our scorn. And I understand the President’s desire to talk about his own experience as a fatherless child. I get it. It must have been terrible and I’d probably talk about it too if my dad Bruce Wilson hadn’t been the incredible dad he is to this day (see my movie “Michael Moore Hates America” for an interview with Pops). (more…)

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Tags: child support, children, custody, divorce, family courts
Posted Jun 21st 2009 at 10:28 am in News, Politics | 165782One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mwilson/2009/06/21/a-father%e2%80%99s-day-note-to-the-president-mind-your-own-business/A+Father%E2%80%99s+Day+Note+to+the+President%3A+Mind+Your+Own+Business2009-06-21+17%3A28%3A19Michael+Wilson

40 Nights of Great Sex

My first thought when I saw Dr. Stacy Spencer’s new book “Naked and Unashamed” was, “wait a minute. A Christian minister preaching about sex?” My second thought was, “why not?” Heathens aren’t the only ones that like to swing from the chandeliers; quiet as its kept Christians enjoy sex just like everyone else. Moreover, good sex is a natural and important part of a good marriage and good marriages are one of the foundations of Christian life.

The book grew out of a “40 Nights of Great Sex” bible study program begun by Spencer, Senior Pastor of the New Direction Christian Church in Memphis Tennessee, and his wife of 16 years, Rhonda. The couple looked into the Christian community and saw marriage – God’s first church – in trouble. The high divorce rate in our country is a well publicized statistic. What is less well known is that, depending on the poll, the divorce rate among practicing Christians is as high as that of non Christians. Christians are also seeing rising rates of adultery and indulgences in pornography. Spencer felt a calling to restore the sheen to Christian marriage and started the workshop as a way to begin healing relationships by providing couples a safe place to talk honestly about intimacy within the covenant of marriage. (more…)

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Tags: "Naked and Unashamed", Christianity, divorce, Dr. Stacy Spencer, marriage
Posted Apr 28th 2009 at 6:02 am in Entertainment, Politics | 118870No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/04/28/40-nights-of-great-sex/40+Nights+of+Great+Sex2009-04-28+13%3A02%3A40Joseph+C.+Phillips