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What the fuck happened to Britney? Last year she went insane. Her big comeback was supposed to be the VMAs, but that was a fucking flop. Apparently everyone thought she looked fat. To be honest, I think she looked pretty decent. Maybe people are right - the outfit she was wearing might have been a little too much. She still looked alright, though. What bothers me about the big "Britney VMA" buzz is that some 13-year-old girl (sweet, sweeeeet 13-year-old girl) is going to see people on TV calling Britney a whale and go "HOLY FUCK" and turn bulimic. Like, Jesus Christ, CNN. Is this superficial bullshit seriously what passes for news these days?

I feel bad for Britney, I really do. She went from being that sweet, innocent girl that everyone beat off to when they saw the Baby One More Time video back in middle school. Now she's insane white trash. I'm not going to defend her to any absurd extent, but it's seriously time to start taking bets on when she's going to show up in legit, professionally produced internet porn.

The big buzz right now is the UF student that got tasered. I have conflicting feelings about this. A little bit of that cognitive dissonance. On one hand, while I watched the video, I got fucking pissed. Yes, the force used was fuckingly excessive. On the other hand, I'm also compelled to agree with (fucking goddamnit) FOX News on this one, to an extent.

First and foremost, the kid was clearly being a drama queen about it. Like, if I met him, I'd probably think he was an asshole, but I probably wouldn't mace him or anything over it. The purpose of the forum was for people to ask questions - it looked more to me like he was trying to make a statement, trying to use the event as a means through which he could give his own personal little speech (which he has the right to - but I still think he was being obnoxious in this context). From a legal standpoint, he was quite obviously resisting arrest, and although he says that he will get up and walk away if they let go of him, it's obvious by that point that he's not going to be cooperative. From the point of view of the police, there's this militant college student in the same room as John Kerry who's ranting and raving and not cooperating with authority. If I was those cops, I'd probably be confused as fuck and just try to get him the fuck out of the room as soon as possible.

On the other hand, most of you already know that I have a fucking problem with authority. I have a fucking problem with people telling me my business, telling me what the fuck to do. No laws but the laws of nature and all that. If you have, what, four cops on top of you, you're not going anywhere. Why the fuck didn't they just handcuff him and haul him the fuck off? Why did they cut him off while he was talking, cut his fucking mic, fucking censor him? I mean, fuck, he's already caused the disruption, why wouldn't you just let him talk? Why the fuck is John Kerry sitting there with his thumb up his ass while this is going on?

Like I said, in this case, I'm probably going to have to concede that although I don't necessarily agree with the reasons he had to be hauled off, I can sympathize with the cops who were just trying to get him out of there. But a fucking taser? That's goddamned excessive force, no ifs/ands/buts about it. The guy in that FOX article I linked earlier, the one who said the police should be commended for their actions, can go fuck himself. You don't taser a kid for being obnoxious. It's fucking frightening. It makes me think of Nineteen-Eighty-Fucking-Four. It fucking freaks me out that you can get tasered and hauled off for trying to say something.

No, the incident wasn't exactly the "attack on free speech" that it's been hailed as, but it certainly demonstrates the possibility of one. I hope I never get fucking tasered for asking a Goddamned question. Fuck that shit so much.

Those cops probably get so much shit about it from their friends. Like, they can never call seatcheck again. "Dude, I called fives on that shit!" "Oh, well, why don't you taser me for it?" At which point the officer would frown awkwardly and sit on the floor. Where he belongs.

Additional reading: A little more piggies-with-stunguns fun. http://news.yahoo.com/s/wkmg/20070919/lo_wkmg/14147512
ps. 7/31 wasn't about a girl if you were wondering