Love on the net

The ICANN board is again considering approving the dot.xxx domain name for adult websites. The last time, the idea was dropped because American conservative groups nixed it. Now, what should be done in addition to approving the porn domain is enabling parental control filtering by domain extensions, and adult websites should be required to move to the new domain.

Online sex and porn addiction is an epidemic that has not spared our kids. Currently, it is virtually impossible to filter all adult content. All we can do is block individual sites or use the voluntary ICRA rating system. The former is inefficient as there are literally millions of sites that can be found using your friendly neighborhood google or bing. The latter is strictly voluntary and very few sites adhere to it. There are the usual “Over 18″ warnings but those easy enough to fake.

An internet porn domain, along with the necessary reforms to restrict adult content to it, should be something conservatives should wholeheartedly support.

MJ & Accomplice

The physician who has been charged in Michael Jackson’s apparent murder, Dr. Conrad Murray has appointed a scary legal team consisting of some of the best attorneys one can find for criminal defense cases:

… lead lawyer, Ed Chernoff [is] a partner at criminal defense firm Stradley, Chernoff & Alford in Houston… His firm’s cases have run the gamut of criminal defense, including assault and domestic violence, sex offenses, drunken driving, drug charges, theft and property crimes. He is handling Murray’s defense along with his firm’s other partners, Matthew Alford and William Stradley. Chernoff is a 1987 graduate of the University of Houston Law Center.

In recent weeks, Murray has added two lawyers in California to his defense team: Michael Flanagan and Joseph Low.

Flanagan, a partner at Glendale, Calif.-based Flanagan, Unger, Grover & McCool, is no stranger to celebrity clients. He recently defended Britney Spears against criminal misdemeanor charges related to driving without a license and Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Ronald Belisario, who pleaded not guilty in August to misdemeanor drunken driving.

… Low, a solo practitioner in Long Beach, Calif., represented Nicole Alvarez, Murray’s girlfriend, when she testified before a grand jury in Los Angeles a few months ago. He confirmed to The National Law Journal that he now is on Murray’s legal team.

Low said that he tries a lot of cases, especially major crimes like drug possession and murder. Last year, Low represented Marine Sgt. Jermaine Nelson, who was charged by military prosecutors with murdering an unarmed Iraqi during battle in Fallujah. Nelson pleaded guilty in September to dereliction of duty; he received an honorable discharge and murder charges were dismissed. In 2007, Low represented another Marine, Cpl. Marshall Magincalda, who was acquitted of murdering an Iraqi civilian in Hamdaniya but convicted of larceny and housebreaking. Magincalda was sentenced to time served.

Low, a former Marine, holds a master’s degree in biochemistry and graduated in 1997 from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. His firm maintains additional California offices in Beverly Hills, San Diego, Torrance and Cardiff By The Sea.

Murray was and is certainly confident he will get off this rap with little or no punishment. That’s why he gave MJ those drugs that could be detected and helped him kill himself. This is the sorry state of the American legal system – commit any crime you want and you can get away with it with the right legal team on your side.

As an aside, he might have done the whole wide world a huge favor by ridding us of MJ. I say we should dismiss the case and actually reward Dr. Murray for a job well done.

James Cameron’s colossal hit, Avatar, has finally been kicked off the #1 spot on the box office by chick flick Dear John. Avatar has crossed $2 billion in revenue worldwide and is still raking in over $20 million in domestic receipts. In today’s Hollywood, it is hardly surprising that a movie with a clear liberal agenda and a shortage of script grosses more than any other movie in history.

Conan O’Brien, host of the Tonight Show, has stated that he will not do the Tonight Show if Jay Leno’s comedy half-hour precedes his show.

I say, good riddance of bad rubbish. O’Brien doesn’t hold a candle to Leno, the long-time king of late night.

Recently, I was forced to sit through a showing of He’s Just Not That Into You and then Sex and the City – the former on Blu-Ray (the horror!) and the later on HBO because there was not much else to see.

HJNTIY at least had some redeeming factors – good looking women and a slightly engaging story-line – but SATC doesn’t even have that. The minute Kristin Davis jumps up in the restaurant declaring SJP was marrying Mr. Big, I couldn’t take it anymore. The other option Hatchet, a direct-to-video horror movie, was infinitely better than this ridiculous saga.

Apparently, even fans of the original show were grossly disappointed – the show was bad enough as it is. The worst part? They are making a sequel.

It’s about time that Oprah went off the air … The ‘O’ has announced the end of her show after September 9, 2011. I Hate This! blog opines correctly.

Photograph: Kevin Mazur/AP

Even after death, MJJ couldn’t just pass on; he couldn’t just leave us alone.

His post-mortem results are now being sealed while an investigation into his death continues. The fervor with which law enforcement authorities are investigating MJJ’s death/suicide/murder is barely matched by the media obsession during the few days after the incident.

If a regular guy had died under similar circumstances, we would have expected a simple investigation and a closed file. There would have been no weeks of tests, no thousands of hours of investigation; none of this.

And it’s not as if the police in Los Angeles don’t have enough on their hands already. LA has some of the highest violent crime rates in the entire country. You know why. The cops are busy investigating celebrity cases.

According to CNN:

Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered a powerful drug that authorities believe killed the singer, a source close to the Jackson family and with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN on Monday. Murray was the doctor who was at Jackson’s home when the pop star died on June 25.

There are people in the world who don’t give a damn that he’s dead… some are glad he’s gone.

iReport, CNN’s so-called user generated clone, should be renamed iMichaelJackson…

Get Over It Already

There are more important stories to cover than MJJ’s funeral. But not for MJNN.

CNN around 7:30 p.m. PST:

Michael Jackson News Network

Michael Joseph Jackson set all the wrong examples. It is bad to speak ill of dead people, but MJJ was special.

MJJ c. 1984: Not Gross Yet

He was a black man, not proud of his race or color. Vitiligo is a natural illness, but MJJ made it worse by trying to become white. Why? If you’re sick, what’s the big deal? Accept it and your fans will respect you even more.

He was a man not proud of his gender. Hey, you could have dressed normally and not  turned yourself into a living joke.

He was man not willing to stand up to his values. He wasn’t a child abuser – I am not willing to believe that he was. But, he never really made an honorable effort to clear his name. Some people like being with children, clearly outside of sexual reasons, and MJJ could have shown himself to be one of those.

American culture has become so attuned to constant child sexual abuse that the first news of a man who likes children and everybody starts accusing him of pedophilia. It’s not always that way, idiots.

Instead,  MJJ resorted to drugs and only made it worse. As only he could. Read on »

Michael Jackson, that abomination, is dead. Good riddance of bad rubbish.

No More.