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If so, you're giving ME shit?
I think there's a difference between taking a locker room jab at an amazing male basketball player who obviously hit Baskins Robbins a little too vigorously upon retirement and constantly ripping on a young woman who struggles against weight problems such as, I don't know, Kelly Osbourne or somebody. I think it's a little endearing when an athlete's build changes from panther to panda, and because Barkley's a guy I don't think I have to be as sensitive because men are not as objectified as women. Maybe it was a bit harsh--I sometimes forget my audience here--but I was ribbing, not attempting to be vitriolic.
Kettle to pot, over and out.
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Oh Katy. Bad way to start here.
Obviously you have been fortunate enough so far in your life to have not been touched by the horrors of drunk driving.
A drunk driver killed my father and very nearly killed my brother in the same accident. In a state that is regularly in the top ten for drunk driving offenses.
It's people like YOU, Katy, who take this issue so lightly, that aid its continued prominence in our culture. And also aid the ridiculously low sentences. Do you know, Katy, that the average drunk drier respopnsible for a fatality serves roughly 1 year in jail?
Maybe you thought this would pass as sarcasm, and maybe I didn't see the joke. But this passage is seriously offending me. Particularly when it is delivered on NYE, a night when so many drive drunk.
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I am certainly not trying to diminish your experience, at all. I've also been impacted by drink driving. I just wanted to point out that I viewed her statement differently.
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I'm too close to it to be an accurate barometer of drunk driving humor.
It's such a touchy subject. No one says, "hey, if I get myself good and hammered before I drive, maybe I can ruin someone's life today!" And many of us have awoken some morning and said to ourselves, "Fuck all, why did I drive myself home last night???"
But this sympathy leads to the mess we currently have with drunk driving, how it is policed, tried and sentenced.
Even a decade after the accident, this subject gets me all riled up. So I should probably refrain from commenting on it. Katy, I'm not really angry with YOU, I'm angry at the entire culture that aids and abets this very common crime and fails to adequately punish those who commit it. Sorry if I was way too strong in reacting.
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But if you drive under the influence, you are a being shitty driver. Period.
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Also, drunk driving is totally inexcusable. I'll drive you home if you're drunk, Charles Barkley.
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Bastard.
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It won't be too long before ignition interlocks are built into all new cars in the US. I give it 5-10 years.
All the major manufacturers are developing these systems. The trick is making them less "intrusive." Toyota's system takes a GSR/alcohol reading from your sweat vapor in the seat. Nissan and GM's systems track your pupil movement.
The insurance companies will force it... This I predict.
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Stupid spoiled rich celebrity people who just need to drive around LA especially after a night of drinking and drugging. Paris, Lindsay et al...I'm looking at you.
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GRRRR!
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