Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a little perterbed by Puff Daddys/P. Diddy’s, Diddy’s constant name changes?

Last week, the rapper/ producer/two stepper annonced that he will be dropping the “P” and will be soley known as– Diddy.

“I feel like the “P” is getting in the way of me and the public. From now on I will simply go by “Diddy,” he told papers.

Well Diddy, I feel like NOBODY CARES, and there are more imprtant things going on then the P, the Puff, or the Daddy in your P…athetic name.

I mean, did you really have to have a press release on the “issue?” Maybe it’s time you focus your energy on a new season of Making the Band.

This is Fler, one of many German rappers spreading neo-Nazi ideals.

Somehow, I don’t think this is what the pioneers of hip hop had in mind. An expressive artform that began as a means for blacks to speak out against oppression in America, is now being embraced by neo-Nazis in Germany.

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-zoneil maharaj

Right then, I’m only chucking this up here because I don’t wanna be the last person to write about it. Monday, actor Sean Penn starts reporting (again?) from inside Iran for the San Francisco Chronicle.

SFGATE: Sean Penn in Iran, Day One

Now, there’s two knee-jerk reactions that us “media types” are supposed to have to something like this:

1) This is a travesty of reporting. Sean Penn is not trained in the secret ninja arts of the journalist.
2) While most other actors are busy fornicatin’ and over-dosin’, Sean Penn has visited Iran and undertaken the grueling hardship of temporarily foregoing cell phone service. Truly, a giant amongst men.

Here’s my real reaction: Eh. Why the hell not? Sure, just ’cause Sean Penn makes slow-moving films about stuff that means stuff doesn’t make him qualified to offer unevenly written “deep thoughts” on anything. But a unique, non-journalist perspective on Iran can’t be a bad thing. Sean Penn can knock himself out.

Heck, if the nice lady down at the post office decided to visit Iran I’d read that too. Actually, if the Chronicle really wants to use celebrity to sell newspapers they oughta ship that Owen Wilson over to the Gaza Strip next week. I’m not sure if Owen knows Ariel Sharon from Ariel the Little Mermaid, but readership amongst 12-18 year-old girls and people named Giselle Velazquez would skyrocket.

Owen Wilson is HOT.
Send him somewhere dangerous too!

The AP headline says it all—“Virginia Laptop Sale Turns Into Stampede.” Man, do I love non-fatal mayhem. Especially the kind that blossoms when a school sale of 1,000 cut-rate used iBooks turns into a riot of epic proportions…

“This is total, total chaos,” said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal…

Right, I know it’s not technically funny. Somebody could have been seriously hurt. But…but…but…I just can’t stop giggling. And the reporter includes so many lovingly ludicrous details in her story, it’s hard to believe that she wasn’t trying smother her laughter over the woeful tale of a small town driven mad by $50 iBook fever.

Witnesses said…someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.

People, I know those iBooks are hot, but attempting to drive your car through a crowd full of cops and school teachers = BAD IDEA. I can relate to these folks—I can barely afford to keep myself in gasoline, let alone buy a pricy laptop I’ll only end up sitting on. I’d probably join the people who were lining up at 4 a.m. — but I’m not sure if I’d go as far as Mr. Jesse Sandler, who’s not a guy you want to cut in line:

“Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.

“I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, ‘Bam,’” the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook…

Bam indeed.

I’m probably dating myself, but does anyone else remember Tipper Gore’s morality juggernaut, the Parental Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.)?

You know the “Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics” stickers? Those are a result of the PMRC.

Well, it appears Hillary “Seize any and all opportunities for political advancement” Clinton is the new Tipper.

Clinton grabbed a hold of the censorship reigns recently by criticizing “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” for its portrayals of sex and violence. She’s calling for federal prosecution.

Hey, I think the game is ridiculous, myself, but I can’t help but think that playing the morality card is one of many more rungs Hillary’s planning to climb between now and the 2008 presidential election. Stay tuned, and
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