Of Snooki, Rape, and Human Rights

Of Snooki, Rape, and Human Rights

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, that nothing can surprise you anymore, that any news the world throws at you can handle, a reality check: You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!

RUTGERS AND SNOOKI: First, from the “entertainment” front, taxpayers are footing a $32,000 bill in order that students at the State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, to hear the words of wisdom of Nicole Polizzi, aka Snooki, on MTV’s contribution to the enhancement of television, Jersey Shore.

Rutgers, which “is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities,” apparently makes exceptions to those lofty goals.

Snooki was paid two grand more than Rutgers’ May commencement speaker, poetess Toni Morrison, which in itself is an absurdity, to talk on such momentous topics as her hair, (“The pouf is its own living form”), the reality of Jersey Shore, (“You can’t make this sh– up”), and her biggest inspiration, (“being tan”). (http://bit.ly/hDHHJh)

Whatever “solutions” Rutgers derived from Snooki should come out in the wash.

RACISM AND SEXISM: Next is a media revelation: America’s, if not the world’s, so-called “Paper of Record,” “The Gray Lady,” the revered, liberal, overrated and soon-to-be-defunct New York Times can be a misogynistic, sexist, racist rag. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4054)