Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Overshadowing the War in The Middle East is the fact that people who are paid to pretend are getting into real life trouble at work and after work.

First, you have Lindsey Lohan. My son confirms that not only is she an actress, but she is also hot. Being an actress and hot are not a given. Case is point: Bea Arthur, who, bless her heart, was born as a sixty four year old man.

Lindsey is also young and rich. It is a bad combination to combine youth, money, and hotness because that usually means one thing: old, broke, and pathetic in ten years.

Lindsey likes to party because she is young, hot, and rich and this is causing her to be late to her well paying job of pretending at movie studio.

Well, her bosses did what all bosses do: they wrote her up.

You are not an adult unless you get written up once in your life. I was written up once because my wife had a baby. That is the truth.

Basically they said, Look we know you are hot, but come on, quit partying and get to work so you can show the world whatever talent you have.

Lindsey, has issued, like, an apology, but basically it came out as "whatever" with her eyes rolling up to the ceiling.

Another person paid for pretending that got in trouble this weekend was Brother Mel Gibson.

The last time I read anything about Mel was a critical comment he made about President Bush. I don't think it is news if a Hollywood star criticizes President Bush. Call me if someone acknowledges that he might be right about something. I figured Mel was just trying to get back in everyone good graces because of his last movie, The Passion Of The Christ.

In case you have forgotten about it, The Passion Of The Christ was about the crucifixtion of Jesus and was supposed to make us clodhoppin' Southern Baptist go out a russle us up some Jews to beat up because of what they did to Jesus.

I thought it was a very moving, if not bloody, movie and it moved me to appreciate what Jesus did at the cross.

There were reports about Mel's father being a Nazi, but I didn't hold that against him. I mean, my Dad was a Democrat but that did not make me a John Kerry voter.

Well, it looks like that in this instance, the apple did not fall far from the tree.

Mel was pulled over for a DUI in Hollywood, which would get him kicked off the deacon board in most Baptist churches. Then, for some reason, he began asking, in very UnChristian terms, the religious affiliations of the police officers. Believe it or not, it went down hill from there.

He made some nasty comments about Jews. Blaming the Jews for everything. You know the drill: war, gas prices, reality TV, the works.

He has issued an apology. He basically said that it was the whiskey talking and that he did not mean all of the mean things he said about Jews.

After the apology, some people said it wasn't enough. Mel then issued another apology in which he basically said that you could come over to his house and spit on him. Even with this, some people were not satisfied.

Lost in all of this was the fact that Gibson was driving while drunk. I guess being an Anti Semitic
lout is worse than being a drunk driver.