A Hero and an Asshole

"There is no rhyme or reason to an earthquake, and we should for once abandon our infantile delusion that we are the cause and maker of everything."

-Boris Johnson, Mayor of London

"There's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."

- Glenn Beck, American Conservative talk show host, and professional asshole

Asshole Spotlight: Mike Huckabee

"Apparently, she's going to have the child, and I think that is the right decision, a good decision, and I respect that and appreciate it. I hope it is not an encouragement to other 16-year-olds who think that is the best course of action. But at the same time I'm not going to condemn her. It's a tragedy when a 16-year-old who is not really prepared for all the responsibilities of adult life is going to be now faced with all the responsibilities of honest-to-goodness adult life."

"People see a Natalie Portman who boasts, 'We're not married but we're having these children and they're doing just fine.' I think it gives a distorted image. It's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of- wedlock children. Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care," he said. "And that's the story that we're not seeing."

-Mike Huckabee on Jamie Lynn Spears in 2007, and then on Natalie Portman in 2011

Asshole Spotlight: Cindy Jacobs

When I read this it took me a while to pick my jaw up out of my lap. I had to read it about three more times in order to make sure that I wasn't reading something out of The Onion. Honestly, I'm still not sure that this isn't a joke, because holy crap, the crazy just got dialled up to "11".

Asshole Spotlight: Lindsay Lohan

Baby punching and insane, racist and threatening rants would have been an obvious choice to put Mel Gibson in the Asshole Spotlight, but I chose Lindsay Lohan for my own little rant today. In doing so, this post is as much about her as it is about the sick cult of celebrity that exists in our world.

Asshole Spotlight: Janice Eberle

Illegally parking in a handicapped spot is something that society as a whole frowns upon. The reasons for this should be obvious. A person with a disability would have trouble getting from the far end of the parking lot to their destination while a person without a disability should have no trouble walking the distance. To illegally park in a handicapped spot takes a special kind of disregard for others, and even the most hardened asshole would never admit to doing it, nor would they protest being ticketed for the act, as it would bring attention to the fact that they illegally parked in a handicapped spot to begin with.

Janice Eberle, however, is different from other people, though probably not in the way she likes to imagine. Slapped with a $300 ticket for parking in a handicapped spot in a Danvers, Massachusetts BJ's, she has decided to sue the town of Danvers.

Asshole Spotlight: Gloria Allred

"There are many women who have been hurt by rich, powerful, famous celebrities, and often those women will come to me for protection and support in asserting whatever legal claims they may have." -Gloria Allred

That doesn't make you any less of an extortionist, Gloria.