Things That Make You Go "WTF"?!?!?!!

Now I understand that I am supposed to be making every effort to amble along the proverbial "sunnier side of the street" (now that it finally is sunny - yay!! 75 degree weather!!) in keeping with making at least a good faith effort at embracing greater mental health (read: be less snarky and cynical and jaded). But old habits die hard, and some things just have to be brought to the forefront. It would be a crime against humanity not to make a note of them and their utter ludicrousness/offensiveness.

For starters, Tom Cruise. Yes, T.C. has taken time out of his very busy "I Am Heterosexual, Hear Me Roar 2005" Tour, to continue spreading the Gospel That Began as a Drunken Joke Scrawled Out On a Cocktail Napkin (L. Ron Hubbard's Buddy: Do you think if you just add "-ology" to the end of the name for it people will actually buy this shit? L. Ron Hubbard: *Deep inhale* Oh yeah, Dude! "Moronology" will like, totally sweep the nation. Heh. *Slow, smoky exhale* Bartender, can I get another shot of Patron over here?!). TC has decided that in order to top his former heights of generosity - because apparently buying sideshow freak tents for the Gospel to assimilate, err, I mean, teach his co-workers about the Gospel, are just not enough - he must call out a lovely, beautiful, unquestionably heterosexual woman who went through some real issues and made the best of them. TC has decided he must deride Brooke Shield's choice to have taken Paxil in order to recover from her post partum depression. His hypothesis? She did herself a great disservice because she could have just gotten over it with vitamins. And I quote:

"When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that. You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things."

His motivations? In the world's most backhanded display of compliment masquerading as thinly-veiled sham (lots of that going around for old TC these days, huh?) for unfettered narcissism, he says he is concerned about her career:

"Here is a woman, and I care about Brooke Shields because I think she is an incredibly talented woman. You look at, where has her career gone?"

Does he know her? Since when is headlining the London production of Chicago slumming it? Really, where did this come from? Other than the fact that it is just incredibly offensive on a visceral level that anyone without a uterus or a medical degree makes comments of any type about post partum depression. Given the whole new level of creepiness Mr. Mapother has taken on as of late, it is even more offensive that he in particular is commenting on anyone's mental health. If he is the result of a strict regimen of Flintstone vitamins and trashy, poorly edited science fiction novels, then I think he needs to take another look in the mirror. (Then again, there is the undeniable truth of what Flintstone vitamins did for Sammy Sosa... ahem.)

Clearly, he's just jealous. She's tall. And she had some saucy scenes with a blonde in Blue Lagoon.
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* This picture of Nikki Hilton and Nicole Ritchie merits a "WTF?!?!" because never in my life would I have imagined that you could ever describe Nikki Hilton as a "big" girl, and yet in this picture she looks huge. Not because she is, but because Ms. Ritchie's wretching apparently has turned her into an emaciated-hobbit in couture. To be a little less snarky for a moment, really this is worrisome. Hypocritical/ironic/lighting-about-to-strike-me as I type this, it must be said. Ms. R and L. Lo need help. Calista Flockhart, in her day, at least had the excuse that she was always a small bird-like thing. These two are taking on a look of freeze-dried images of their former selves.

* On baseball: He that is suffering from the Curse of Milano, otherwise known as Barry Zito, is in fact the unluckiest man in baseball. The COM is obviously more insidious than first thought, as it has now been revealed that BZ owns a 1 and 5 record, but that in his 5 losses, his team, the woeful Oakland Athletics have scored a "WTF?!?!?"-meriting grand total of THREE RUNS! THREE RUNS. IN FIVE GAMES! Offensive. Appalling. Inexcusable. WTF. My inner-baseball fan weeps.