Ms. Informed

Recently in the news is the story of a U.K. boy who fathered a child at 13 years old. Sure this is shocking and disturbing in so many ways, but the question in my head is “Why is all the attention focused on the father? Why is he the one posing with the baby on the cover of The Sun? Why not the baby’s mother, Chantalle? Why not both parents?” The answer: Because he is 13. It’s almost as if a 15-year-old mother has no shock value anymore for the media…we are used to 15 year old mothers. Don’t get me wrong, 13 is wayyyy young to be fathering anything, but when did 15 become acceptable?

That’s a sad commentary on not only the U.S., but in this case, the world.

Less than a week after he allegedly assaulted girlfriend Rihanna this weekend before their schedule appearances at the Grammy awards, Chris Brown’s Facebook status now lists the 19-year-old as “single.” He also spoke out via his Facebook account (under Christopher Maurice Brown) saying, “You’ll begin to see her true colors. Believe it!”

Well it’s on Facebook, then it must be true.

Brown’s cousin, Phylicia Thompson, defends her cousin, commenting that nobody knows what happens behind closed doors, but then continued to say “Of course, yes, he’s done something wrong because he puts his hands on her, but like I said, you don’t know what happened.”

If he put his hands on her…isn’t THAT what happened? What else needs to have happened for him to be wrong?

In a related post, Emily blogged about women and the criminal justice system, and I think it’s a post and a topic that deserves some attention.

So if you missed David Letterman’s Top Ten list of Michael Phelps excuses for his marijuana mishap — my favorite, #3. Chillax, Brosef.” — or haven’t watched a news broadcast on any station from CBS to Sports Center, you might not know about the swimming sensation’s most recent scandal.

A picture surfaced of Michael Phelps smoking a bong at a college party. While it’s true that Phelps has not lived up to his Olympian image and has surely let lots of people, friends, family and fans alike, down, is this being blown out of proportion? Eight-time Olympic gold medalist or not, he’s 23 years old. Not that that excuses his behavior, not that that means all 23 year olds behave in the same manor. But can’t this incident be chalked up to being young and immature?

But how many incidents can we chalk up to immaturity in Phelps’ case? He’s starting to grow quite the collection — bong-smoking in ‘08, a DUI in ‘04, and an anonymous source close to Ms. Informed revealed that when Phelps was making a commercial for this company’s line of personal and business use jets, “he also trashed one of our planes with his friends.”

Young and immature, or an all-around rotten apple? You decide.

President Obama imposed a $500,000 salary cap yesterday on senior executive pay for all companies who receive government bailouts. Now, I was hearing about this at the gym while watching The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. (Which, by the way, is the coolest name. Almost as cool as Dexter Freebish. Almost.)

Blitzer then had CNN colleague Jack Cafferty weigh in on the topic, who, while not exactly saying that he himself thought it was socialism, did more than “suggest” the notion, in an effort to get viewers to email him their opinions.

I was getting so heated. Maybe it was the elliptical. But maybe it was his words. Everyone at the gym must have thought I was crazy, because at this point I was talking to the TV screen in front of me. “How is that socialism???” How is the government saying what they want done with THEIR money, socialism? The government is not coming in and telling these companies what to do with their own hard-earned money. No, the companies f**ked (hey, it’s a PG blog) that one up a long time ago. They don’t HAVE hard-earned money. Unless you consider my hard-earned money that will be taken from me in the form of taxes and they will receive in a pretty package termed “bailout.”

No where but on Wall Street can an employee drive his company so far into the ground and still get his million dollar salary, his million dollar bonus, his mansions, his yachts, his vacations and his open-bar holiday parties. The rich just keep getting richer, and this time, at the expense of the middle class. If I were to screw my job up as bad as these people did theirs, a salary cap would be the least of my concerns. Termination would be the more realistic option.

Millions of Americans are losing their jobs, their houses, their kids can’t go to college, they can’t put food on the table or make ends meet…all thanks to these greedy, selfish execs who created this problem in the first place.

I realize I am ranting now, but I am pissed, and I am glad and grateful that President Obama is doing something to end this complete lunacy, because that’s exactly what it is.

Thanks to Emily for the clarification.
I didn’t see the commercials either, although I admittedly tappered off from the game after the first quarter.

Either Miller Light is incredibly dumb…or incredibly brilliant. The beer distributor bought 30 seconds of airtime for Sunday’s XLIII superbowl, but there’s a catch: They bought 30 one-second intervals of time. Tune in Sunday to see how these spots pan out.

Allegedly, Jessica Simp’s current beau Tony Romo not only cheated on the pop star (and I use that term loosely) — but in her own bed! While Simpson was out of town, Romo invited people back to her house and then disappeared upstairs with a “stunning brunette” for the rest of the evening.

This news broke days after Simpson was critcized for packing on some el bees when she was seen at a Chili cook-off last weekend. A line of celebs have come to Simpson’s defense since then, including her sister Ashlee, Heidi Klum and….Kim Kardashion….a stunning…brunette…

Coincidence? Probably, lol.

Now, if she’s fat, what does that mean for the rest of us women? Although, sporting those mom-jeans was definitely a fashion faux-pau if I ever saw one.

My favorite part is 1 minute and 58 seconds.