Posted by admin on Feb 17, 2009 in
By Keysha Whitaker,
Thoughts and Things 
Travis the Chimp in 2003. (AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Kathleen O'Rourke)
So this lady had a chimp as a pet in Connecticut.
But as wild animals tend to do on rare occasions, he acted like one and badly mauled the lady’s friend who had arrived to help get the escaped chimp back in the house.
According to the article:
After the initial attack, Travis ran away and started roaming Herold’s property until police arrived, setting up security so medics could reach the critically injured woman, Conklin said.
But the chimpanzee returned and went after several of the officers, who retreated into their cars, Conklin said. An officer shot Travis several times after the animal opened the door to his cruiser and started to get in.
“The animal had cornered him,” Conklin said Tuesday. “He had no other recourse.”- Yahoo!
Now, I’m an animal lover like the next, however, I’m a little confused as to why the hell the chimp even got to open the car door.
I mean, they shoot black men for looking like they’re thinking about reaching for a wallet, but Mr. Monkey made it all the way to the driver’s seat before they decided to blast off.
I guess he wasn’t as great a threat.
I’m just saying.
Tags: chimp shot, chimp shot dead, chimp shot in connecticut, discrimination, police discrimination, racial profiling, sandra herold
Chris Brown and Rihanna. Photo from TheYBF.com
So, if you half pay attention to American pop culture, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Chris Brown/Rihanna fiasco that happened on the night of the Grammy’s. Reportedly, a woman - who sources have identified as Good Girl Gone Bad Rihanna - made a 911 call reporting an assault by her boyfriend, Chris Brown.
As soon as this story broke, people immediately took sides. Radio stations did call-ins, Chris Brown’s stepdad, who Chris publicly accused of abusing his mom, did Access Hollywood and radio interviews - claiming the opposite, and alleging that Brown in fact was the violent one.
Celebrities chimed in with their two cents; some, like rapper, T.I. and actor Terrence Howard who we’ll get to later, chimed in too soon and retracted their two cents shortly thereafter.
The truth of the matter is that noone knows what happened on that night except Chris and Rihanna. I’ve known men who were in abusive relationships at the hands of women - too ashamed to do anything about it. I’ve known women who cried wolf and gotten men arrested who’d never laid a hand on them.
So, I can’t, though I wish I could, travel back in time and be a stitch on the leather seat of that Lamborghini and see what the hell went down. Nor can I say that I haven’t been mad enough at a dude to contemplate going upside his head my damn self; and if I had a little less home-training, I might have.
But, on this, we all can agree, SOMETHING happened. The important question is: what happens now?
What happens now, after you realize you are in a dysfunctional relationship, or a functional one with dysfunctional tendencies? Do you stay or do you go? Do you love or do you leave? Read more…
Tags: abusive relationships, chris and rihanna, chris brown, rihanna, terrence howard
Posted by admin on Jan 15, 2009 in
By Keysha Whitaker,
Thoughts and Things 
Reuters photo from Yahoo news.
A plane crashed in the Hudson River in New York and everybody survived.
Which just goes to show, if it’s just not your time to go, it’s not your time to go. Even if the damn plane falls out the sky, so eat, drink and be merry!
Tags: final destination, flight 1549, hudson river crash, life, live life
Rejuvenate is Eartha Kitt's guide to staying fit. The late Kitt is an inspiration to single women. (Image from Simon & Schuster Inc.)
Single at age 81 looks damn good if you follow the life and times of multi-faceted performer Eartha Kitt.
Kitt, one of the original triple-threats, died on December 25 in Connecticut. Her career spanned six decades on stage, screen, and audio. Catwoman wasn’t Catwoman until Kitt purred her way into the role during the Batman television series in 1967. And nobody’s looked at Santa the same after she dropped the hit “Santa Baby” in 1954.
Her career accomplishments include winning two Emmys and scoring nominations for Tonys and Grammys. She found her niche in performing after auditioning for an international dance troupe as a teen, and she didn’t stop. Ever. Weeks before she died, she concluded taping for a PBS special that will air in February 2009. She penned three autobiographies and, in 2001, a guide to staying physically fit, Rejuvenate.
She stood up and spoke out for what she believed in: being blacklisted in the U.S. for speaking out against the Vietnam War and standing up for an end to racism by performing in South Africa.
Kitt, who was married for five years, remained single for most of her life, having high-profile relationships including renown writer Orson Welles, and Revlon founder Charles Revson. She was abused as a child in South Carolina, shipped off to live with an aunt in New York, then abused some more.
Her life should inspire single women. She triumphed over a troubled past. She had the relationships that she wanted, how she wanted. While it’s nice to think marriage is forever, the reality is that sometimes it doesn’t work out like that and it’s nicer when we are enlightened enough to accept that it doesn’t have to.
Your happiness and legacy should not depend on being Ms. Right.
Like Kitt’s, it should depend on doing what you love, standing up for what you believe in and speaking out for what’s right in your heart.
Tags: eartha kitt
Posted by admin on Nov 22, 2008 in
By Keysha Whitaker,
Thoughts and Things I was in Target (the new one in the Trumbull Mall) the other day and was blown away what I saw:
WHY IN THE HELL DO THEY NEED A WHOLE AISLE OF MOUTHWASH?!?!?
It was one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. It just goes to show that Big Business in America is a proponent of gluttony and excess. There are people STAARRRVING to death and we have an aisle of cinnamon, apple, fluoride, and mint mouthwash.
The joke is probably on us. It’s not our mouths that are being washed. It’s our brains.
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Tags: america, consumer greed, excess, gluttony, target
Posted by admin on Nov 19, 2008 in
Thoughts and Things Some Westchester County New York political officials are standing in a pile of doo-doo after forwarding a racially tinged email which pictured the caricature of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama saying “Eyez yo new prezident.”
According to an article published in the The Journal News, fire commissioner Bruce Bell sent the email to Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Reddy, who then forwarded it to others. Both officials used personal Yahoo! accounts with identifying info to forward the email.
Now, Bell isn’t talking, and Reddy is claiming that he didn’t mean to offend anyone; he thought the cartoon was a “political spoof”; and racist aliens hacked his email account and did the forwarding. (Okay the last one I made up, but it sounds more plausible than his real excuses.) Read more…
Tags: bruce bell, email forwarding, obama hate mail, ossining fire department, politics, prejudice, racial slurs, thomas reddy
Posted by admin on Nov 11, 2008 in
Thoughts and Things My little Lindsay.
Picture from Harpar's Bazaar. Access Hollywood.
Out of rehab and straight to the mag racks revealing more details about her relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson in the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
According to OMG’s report on the Harper’s article, American performer Lindsay Lohan “does not consider herself a lesbian, but as for whether she thinks of herself as bisexual, she told the magazine, “maybe.”
“I don’t want to classify myself,” she continued. “First of all, you never know what’s going to happen — tomorrow, in a month, a year from now, five years from now. I appreciate people, and it doesn’t matter who they are, and I feel blessed to be able to feel comfortable enough with myself that I can say that.”
She said that most of her family has been supportive. (Initially her dad gave Samantha a public verbal thrashing and her sister denied the whole thing altogether.)
Now I’ll be honest when the relationship first surfaced, I squinted one eye at the girl and I think I’m still squinting. Read more…
Tags: celebrity relationships, lindsey lohan, samantha ronson
Posted by admin on Nov 10, 2008 in
Thoughts and Things This first appeared on SingleWomenRule.com
A woman at my job came up to me today and said, “Don’t get married.”
I looked down at her left hand adorned with sparkly shiny that wouldn’t meet its banded compliment until nearly 18 months.
“You’re not even married yet,” I said incredulously.
She agreed then proceeded to lament her disdain for her fiance’s sister and family.
She didn’t want her future sister-in-law in the wedding. The woman was evading bridal fittings. The sister was hounding the betrotheds for not cleaning up the table, washing and putting away dishes when they visited for dinner. Read more…
Tags: marriage, relationships
This first appeared on SingleWomenRule.com
A recent Cosmopolitan article by Esther Crain, “How to Have the Talk”, gave us single gals tips for sitting your guy down and getting him to say “yay” or “nay” to exclusivity, moving in, or whatever random relationship issue that you feel is important.
Should you have the talk or take a walk?
To this I say – Hogwash and Fiddle-Fuddle!
My advice is if you have to have THE TALK, then YOU BETTER WALK!
I think, in my humble single opinion, if you have to sit a guy down to get a clue about what he’s feeling about you, to borrow a word from He’s Just Not That Into YOU . . . “He’s just not that into you!”
Why does it have to be that difficult? Call me an old-fashioned girl, but in some aspects I’m a traditionalist. I wish I grew up in the 1950’s when girls got to wear letter jackets and pins and guys still said, “Do you want to go steady?” Read more…
Tags: cosmopolitan, defining relationships, esther crain, relationships