Penetrating Mom Blogs

We all know that Views From My Basement is one of the hottest blogs online, and if you didn’t, well, now you do. But unfortunately, there is a certain group swaying my loyal followers.

Moms with their mom blogs.

Apparently, these types of blogs are the new thing — and there’s a whole litter of them. They gab about what’s usually on their minds: Sofa cushions, James Brolin, and the the ugly, single woman who lives up the block (it’s like she doesn’t even TRY to look pretty). So, they blog and other moms take a detour before they stop at The Basement.

Is Twitter Good or Bad for Public Figures?

Just in the last week alone, we’ve seen the impact Twitter has had on our culture. With Miley Cyrus closing her twitter account, and Shawn Ryan, the Executive Producer of Lie To Me, tweeting the cancellation of NBC’s Southland before anyone else knew, the site has been the number one topic of conversation.

What makes this micro-blogging, social media site better than any other is that it keeps you in the loop with your favourite celebrities, people of interest, and role models. But apparently, it’s more than the celebrities can take.

The latest who has shown interest in deleting their account is Meghan McCain. Just tonight, she tweeted:

“my ‘spontaneous’ night in is my Andy Warhol biography and takeout….I’m getting old”

She then followed it up with this twitpic:

I can't make out the name of the book... but I can make out something else.

What followed were some harsh comments by a few of McCain’s followers. Within minutes, she lashed back:

“so I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing but apparently anything other than a pantsuit I am a slut, this is

“why I have been considering deleting my twitter account, what once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment

Dick vs Idiot aka Schwab vs Stow

Anyone who knows me knows that I loathe the police. In 2005 I lost my driver’s license for failing to stop at a big red octagon around 2am on a Thursday morning.

I’ll say that again. I lost my license for doing a California rolling stop.

After four months and $500 in fines (the initial $180 fine, paying off the points that this fine put on my license, and renewing it), I managed to get it back. I have so much contempt for these human beings that I respectfully refused a friend, who was applying to become a RCMP officer, to be his reference.

So, when I found this video online, I was ready to bring up that rage that still lies deep inside of me to smear this cop as much as possible.

There’s a few things here that bother me and it’s for all the wrong reasons. People are calling this cop, Officer Shwab a “fucking dick” all over the place. But somehow, I feel differently.

I sat down with a friend Tim Ady, a licensed Security Officer and Site Supervisor, to get some answers. Now, he’s not a cop, but he’s trained in subduing troublemakers and hooligans with the same techniques that Schwab used on Zach Stow.

After the initial arrest, the first thing that threw me off was when Stow said, “You don’t have to fucking put me in pain, dude.”

Brian Turner: When put into the arm bar, will it initially hurt?

Tim Ady: No. They’ll feel discomfort but not pain. When people resist, that’s when the arm bar will hurt more.

So he’s not in pain, he’s feeling discomfort.