Category: The Current Situation

“In your heart?” More like up your ass.

In light of the increased violence against Asians, expect to see this sort of crisis-management mea culpa-ing over the next few weeks.

From Variety:

“At the time I did those jokes, I genuinely thought them to be harmless,” Leno said in a joint press release with MANAA leader Guy Aoki. “I was making fun of our enemy North Korea, and like most jokes, there was a ring of truth to them.”

Leno continued, “At the time, there was a prevailing attitude that some group is always complaining about something, so don’t worry about it. Whenever we received a complaint, there would be two sides to the discussion: Either ‘We need to deal with this’ or ‘Screw ‘em if they can’t take a joke.’ Too many times I sided with the latter even when in my heart I knew it was wrong.”

Word to the wise, Jay: Just say “sorry”, do better from now on, and spare us the “Deep down, I’m a good person” schtick. There is no “deep down” — it’s what you do that makes you good or bad.

Talk about burying the lede! Had environmental scientists opened with a warning like “Human penises are shrinking because of pollution”, we would’ve been a zero-emissions, zero-waste, well-endowed world decades ago.

…and is tradition on this blog, that means it’s time to post a favorite tune of mine from the nineties, from the alternate universe known as Canadian music. Here’s First Day of Spring, by The Gandharvas:

It’s a bit of gloomy day in Tampa Bay today, but we could use the rain, so I’m not going to complain. The self-portrait I’ll use to mark spring will be this rather green one from a couple of days ago — St. Patrick’s Day: