Category Archives: Popular Culture

Political Advice

…from Captain Kirk:

Don’t compare President Barack Obama to Captain James T. Kirk.

That’s what William Shatner told CNN’s Ali Velshi when asked to respond to suggestions that Obama should act less like “Spock” and more like “Captain Kirk”.

Shatner said the comparisons are “unfair” because “Mr. Obama has the onerous burden of obeying the constitution [and] Captain Kirk was captain of everybody’s fate. He was a dictator”.

Funny, I hadn’t noticed that he was all that concerned about that pesky document, myself.

Michael Jackson’s Death

No, I can safely say, with conscience clear, that I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I never asked him to make a concert tour, I never bought any of his music, I never encouraged him to do anything he ever did in any way whatsoever. My hands are completely clean. I just wish we could stop hearing about him.

[Update a while later]

You know the bit about how he claimed that he never had a childhood? It appeared to me that he had a childhood that lasted for five decades.