Open Thread

Homeland Security are glorified “rent-a-cops.”

“showing your conspicuous consumption of material goods, and bad taste in clothing, home furnishing and design and sleeping partners is a phenomenon I just don’t get.”

[DIBS leaves the thread for a few hours under cover]

More importantly, who the hell names their child “Mahogany”?

Someone with a Diana Ross fixation?

Well, cobble, I agree with you. What have we come to when people will do anything just to get on a reality show. One of my other tenants gets a free subscription to US magazine, and leafing through it, it’s mostly the sightings and posings of people who were on reality shows. They are now “famous”.

It’s ridiculous. It’s one thing to be famous for being Serena or Tiger or Derek Jeter, they worked hard to get where they are. This instant fame because you lucked out and were a first class bitch or a-hole on some stupid show showing your conspicuous consumption of material goods, and bad taste in clothing, home furnishing and design and sleeping partners is a phenomenon I just don’t get. You’re going to risk federal prosecution, possible jail time, and the ruination of your life as a private citizen just to get on a reality show????

On the other hand, it’s a wake up call to the Secret Service which seems to have fallen asleep ever since Obama was elected. This man has gotten more death threats from all kinds of nutballs, and they allow armed demonstrators at town hall meetings (“it’s a right to be armed in this country”) and can’t face down some officious wannabees, or impatient staff members at a state dinner? There needs to be shakeups in the Secret Service.