11-19-10

It's a wedding! AND A ROYAL WEDDING TOO! Yes ladies and gentlemen, it was announced this week that the United Kingdom's heir to the throne, Prince William, is engaged to commoner, (although also heiress to multi-million dollar fortune... oops, or should I say multi-milion pound or euro fortune) Kate Middleton. This also comes with the news that for this engagement there was no trip to Cartier for Kate, but rather Prince William decided it would be much more meaningful to give her, his mother's, the late Princess Diana's, engagement ring from her engagement to William's father, Prince Charles. The ring consists of fourteen diamonds surrounding a large sapphire stone and when was purchased back in 1981 was bought for £30,000. Furthermore, while many entertainment commentators have said that this may be a "bad-luck" charm, I'm choosing to say the opposite in this case and am saying the ring will represent Princess Di's immense poplarity rather than her nasty divorce and young death. So really I guess even though she didn't get the Cartier road-trip... bitch still cleaned house pretty well.
The Palins: Love 'em or hate 'em (I sincerely hope you have the sense for the latter) you can't escape from them! This was further cemented this week with the premiere of TLC's new series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," following the life of the ex-governor in her quest to... rock climb? I'm not exactly sure what is so interesting about following the camping adventures of the family to people, but apparently the "Palin Posse," as I so call them (you know- the same people who week after week have kept the train wreck that is Bristol Palin on Dancing With The Stars) disagree with me as the show garnered TLC with it's highest series premiere ratings in it's history. In this triumph for the Palin family, however, of course cannot be satisfied by simply giving themselves a pat on the back. Nope, once again they had to get political. (Which of course the entire show in reality is, since it is her desperate attempt to gain enough attention for a presidential political campaign for 2012.) During the premiere of the show, one of the classmates (apparently named Tre) of sixteen-year-old Palin daughter, Willow, posted on Facebook, "Sarah Palin's Alaska, is failing so hard right now." Seeing this on her Newsfeed, Willow responded by answering back, "Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I've seen pictures of, your disgusting ... My sister had a kid and is still hot." Later she added, "Tre stfu. Your such a f**got." This was all followed by a Facebook Wall War in which any people "ganged up," (and most likely quite rightly) on Willow to which she dug her hole even deeper adding, "Sorry that you guys are all jealous of my families success and you guys aren't goin to go anywhere with your lives."  First of all, let me point out the grammatical correction that is driving me insane, *"...my FAMILY'S success and you guys..." Second of all, aside from the fact that all of these comments made by Willow are childish, let me add that she uses homophobic slurs. And to this how does the Sarah Palin camp respond. They say that she was simply a "baby bear defending Mama Grizzly." This has caused me to institute a new segment here on J.C. White Is The New Black entitled "WTF? Moments." However, I'm still not quite sure what I should be most surprised about: A) We get to see yet again just what kind of people the entire Palin family is B) Someone would be stupid enough to post homophobic slurs on Facebook or C) They have modern conveniences such as indoor plumbing, electricity, and the internet in Alaska.