Friday Morning Hangover

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This morning we look back on the week that was for Jan. 17-23, 2009:

On Sunday night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association staged their annual Golden Globes Awards, and nobody cared. To say that the Golden Globes are a bit of a joke is an understatement; just a few short years ago, actors openly attempted to buy Golden Globes, most famously documented when Sharon Stone bought all the members wrist watches and found herself nominated shortly thereafter. New rules have been put into place, but members of the Association still regularly dine with actors courting their favor. But hey, narcissistic, over-paid actors get to hand trophies to themselves in a nationally televised pageant of masturbatory self-indulgence, so it can't be all bad, right? Oh, and by the way, would someone tell Mariah Carey that when she received an invitation to participate in all that is the Golden Globes, they didn't mean it literally.

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In politics, former Cosmopolitan Magazine nude model, Scott Brown, won a seat in the U.S. Senate, taking the Massachusetts "Kennedy Seat" for the Republican Party for the first time since 1953. Head Republican Sarah Palin quickly called the truck-driving, anti-gay marriage conservative, congratulating him on his win, stating that his win was "a step for taking our country back." Oh good, we're so happy to hear that Sarah no longer thinks that posing nude is "porn", which is how she famously described almost son-in-law Levi Johnston's stint in Playgirl Magazine on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Hypocrisy and irony are completely lost on the Republicans, which is why we love them so dearly, they're like a gift that just won't stop giving!

No, This Story is More Important: It Has Nudity!

Maybe a more important story than the t.v. failures of Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno is the red-hot Massachusetts senate race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown.

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The race is a crucial one for the Democrats because a loss would mean the erasure of their 60 vote majority in the U.S. Senate, which is vital to the party's and the President's health care plans and other future legislation. Also, a Scott Brown victory would mean the "Kennedy seat" would be held by a Republican for the first time since Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. vacated the seat in 1953, pointing towards what some claim will be a GOP resurgence in 2010.
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But even this story has some tabloid aspects to it. (What story doesn't these days? In fact, if our modern news media can't wring some cheap, emotionally exploitive story line out of an event, is it even a real story? But we digress.)

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In 1982, as a 22 year-old law student, Scott Brown posed naked for Cosmopolitan Magazine. Hey, not bad, but how will this affect the Republican's stand on "family values" and their claim as the religious and moral arbiters of modern American society? We don't know, did Jesus pose nude? We'll check our back issues of "Hot Hunks of Nazareth" and let you know.