When it comes to Independent Sources, it is clear that you expect more of this:

However periodically we need to get other types of things off our chest. Here’s what’s on my mind. What’s on yours?

1. Battle of Stars.

Does anyone other than us just find this funny? North Beverly Park residents are being sued by the South Beverly Park residents over access rights. This is not your typical home owners association brawl as the South Beverly Park plaintiffs include Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and movie producer Richard Zanuck and his wife, Lili while the North Beverly Park defendants include Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Reba McEntire, Sylvester Stallone, Barry Bonds and media moguls Haim Saban and Sumner Redstone. Anyone want to guess the legal fees of this egofest?

2. eHarmony forced to offer same sex service

No matter how you feel about Prop 8 in California, forcing a dating site to market to a group (any group) is simply wrong. It is not discrimination if you choose to market your products to a particular demographic–it’s called capitalism. If you type “gay dating” into Google it is clear that there are no shortage of sites servicing marketing to gays. Does JDate need to open up to Palestinians or ArabLounge.com to…? Anyway, you get the idea. The pity is that no judge had the balls to toss this out where it belonged and let the free market do its job.

3. Jerry Yang Stepping Down at Yahoo CEO

Good riddance. Besides the billions of shareholder equity lost during his misguided reign think of the hundreds and hundreds of millions (billions?) of lost stock options lost by his employees. Please tell me what was so bad about the Microsoft offer anyway, Jerry? Was it that employees would lose job? Wait, they did anyway the only difference is that you fired the–not Microsoft. Oh yeah, one other difference. If Microsoft had laid them off they’d be cashing in options worth $31 or more versus them leaving now with zippo since how many employees have grants dating back to the days of below zero (and even if they did who feels good about $20/share disappearing?).

4. India Navy Foils Pirates

At least India has some balls. We’ve got the biggest navy in the world and yet we can’t even sink a few Somalian pirate boats. Give me a break. India showed what you do when you come across these lawless losers. I know why we are pussies with Iran and North Korea. They have nukes. Last I saw the pirates in Somalia don’t. So what’s stopping us? We’re pussies, that’s what.

That’s it. Back to hotties.

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