Note: I think it would just be plain wrong to write about a trivial issue like this without mentioning the Haiti earthquake yet. So I’d like to recommend you donate to Catholic Relief Services.

Now, to the post:

“No matter how I look at this I am in the wrong. And I’ve looked at this thing, like, a hundred different ways. From my point of view, from their point of view … 98 others … and bottom line, I’m in the wrong. I’m the bad guy.”

-Michael Scott in “The Office”

I was watching “The Jay Leno Show” last night (by the way, it got strong ratings), and subsequently witnessed Kanye West bring down the mood by apparently apologizing for the third time.
No, not for his haircut.  He was apologizing because he took a microphone away from 19-year-old Taylor Swift so that he could say that Beyonce deserved to win the award for her video instead.
This kind of behavior isn’t unusual from West if you’ve seen the “Fishsticks” episode of South Park.  West also has a history of making people feel …

I know Tom Hanks is a left-leaning celebrity, much like most of the celebrities we hear about, but it’s actually kind of unusual to hear him chime in on these sorts of matters.
This time, they’re the matters of the homosexual sort, as Hanks recently used the phrase “un-American” in regards to some of the opponents of Proposition Gr8 in California.
Apparently conservatives aren’t the only ones to toss the Unpatriotic/UnAmerican labels around.  Here’s what Hanks had to say:
“The truth is this takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are …

Peter Coyote, the actor who played a high-powered lawyer in Erin Brockovich and the scientist after E.T., made this interesting suggestion the other day:
Actor Peter Coyote has suggested that stars who earn millions of dollars for their performances in movies ought to share the wealth with established character actors, who have seen their earnings rolled back as the stars’ skyrocket. Coyote, best known for his role as the scientist trying to track down E.T., suggests that the Screen Actors Guild ought to call upon leading actors to kick back “a …

Since 2000 I can remember going category-by-category and predicting who would win each Oscar, but I’ve never posted my predictions up on BipolarNation before the actual night.  Considering that the Oscars are this Sunday and I only have this one weekday to post before it happens, it’s the perfect time to do it.
Get pumped, baby!  It’s the Oscars!  Even in a relatively weak year like this (though not as bad as the 2006 awards; remember “Crash” beating out “Brokeback Mountain”?), this is always fun.  The beauty of picking the Oscars …

Last night, I made sure to watch both Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien as they returned to their shows without writers. As it turns out, sheer curiosity is quite the ratings booster. Even though Letterman and counterpart Craig Ferguson were armed with writers last night, NBC’s shows still topped them.
Leno still had a monologue – he wrote his own jokes (which is against the rules, isn’t it?) and you didn’t notice a dropoff at all. Ouch to the writers. Conan O’Brien was way more free-form, first …

Click on the picture for info on Lindsay Lohan’s DUI and cocaine possession charge.
Maybe it’s wrong that Lindsay Lohan reminds me how good it feels not to be a coke-addicted drunk who has to deal with embarrassment in front of the world. Then again, maybe it’s not.

I wish that were the headline on CNN today.  I don’t know if any of you watched Larry King’s interview with Paris Hilton last night, or Anderson Cooper’s “360″ coverage of the interview itself.  Yes, that means a two-hour block of time on the Cable News Network was dedicated exclusively to Paris Hilton.
(But I’m writing a blog post about it, so it’s a blog post about a news segment about an interview with an inconsequential person).
This isn’t just a knock on CNN – I turned the channel and Fox News …

Do not mess with the media.  They are evil.
Angeline Jolie learned that lesson the hard way this week.  After setting strict standards for who and what could appear to question her at the premier of “A Mighty Heart,” her new movie, the media went nuts.
She initially banned Fox News from the event – which, of course, was hyped on Fox News – and demanded that reporters limit their questions to non-relationship issues.
Even gay blogger Perez Hilton was with Fox News on this one.  The media has one thing going for …

Warning: Lots of swears in this video.
Believe it or not, the more I see of him, the more I think Ben Affleck is a left-winger I can actually respect. He’s willing to talk politics with “righties” (Bill O’Reilly) and doesn’t try to sound political while doing it.
Recently he was on Bill Maher talking about why everyone things the Democrats are “bleeping weak.”
Before I go to the video, here’s part of what he says:
These [bleeping] people…this is the problem with them. The Democrats live in fear…of being called …