Sasha's Commentary for August 28, 2013: Some Stuffs

The summer is almost over...and I am the least happy about it! I need more time to achieve goals!

Miley Cyrus's strip show at the MTV Video Music Awards is still getting attention. And of course, it's the Parent's Television Council that is putting on the whole show. Irony? Billy Ray Cyrus is on the advisory board for the PTC, so I'm wondering if he's going to have to resign thanks to his daughter's shenanigans. Miley herself took the whole thing in stride, and thus I now have license to start comparing Miley to Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. And what is so great about Robin Thicke? Just seems like another Eminem in the making, sans the hard rap.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas have separated. I am actually not surprised. Their relationship recently has hit some rough patches and there's a twenty five year age gap between the two. All relationships in the public eye go through rough patches, it's the price of fame.

This one's brief: I hope that this little thing between Sheldon and Penny isn't the end of the Big Bang Theory as we know it. Amy Fowler is one of my favorite characters on the show, and Mayim Bialik is one of my favorite actresses. 

Albany is losing it's only international flights-to Toronto! Then again, I think only international airports that handle international flights should get the designation. How's this for a new name for Albany International Airport: Greater Capital Region Airport. Here's something I could see: Porter serving Toronto with a single daily flight. 

Tech boom adding new stores to the region? I would like to believe that Albany is suited to becoming the next Silicon Valley. Albany has the potential, the drive, the 

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which is the exact title of the march where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech and while web browsing, I encountered a speech that he gave back in late 1967, months before his death, entitled "The Domestic Impact of the War in America". It relates to comments made by Michael Reagan about the recent move The Butler. The quote is in reference to Ronald Reagan, who surprisingly came in third place for the 1968 Republican nomination for President. Contrary to what the Republicans would like to believe, King was not a Republican.

When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor can become a leading war hawk candidate for the Presidency, only the irrationalities induced by a war psychosis can explain such a melancholy turn of events.

 Michael Reagan's response to the movie?

"There you go again, Hollywood...you’ve taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies. You took the true story of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, and turned it into a clichéd 'message movie."

Nothing from his younger brother Ron though.

In other news, Bill de Blasio is in the lead for the Democratic nomination for mayor.