Big Bang BS

The Big Bang Theory is one of my favourite shows, but the racist 'jokes' are getting a little tired. Poor Koothrappali has to utter fatuous lines like 'My parents are very wealthy, we have lots of servants....we don't believe our poor should have dreams' etc. No one even laughs at these bits, admittedly they are not funny, but if I have to start cringing BEFORE the Indian jokes finish, the writers are doing something off. As I recall, Raj has mentioned Untouchables, India's millions, poverty and Bollywood, too, ad nauseam. We must be really easy targets.

Having said that, the Jewish mother is just as big a stereotype - but at least she IS funny.

Free your mind, and John Galliano

There isn't a single individual I've spoken to who hasn't slammed Galliano for his recent rant, but if you stop and think (a lonely road, of course, but necessary), how many of us have lost our tempers and said the most vicious things without meaning a damn word? That would be all of us, I'm guessing, so let's take the lonely road for a minute.

Madonna once admitted courageously that when the world turned its back on MJ, she did, too, and regretted it. Obviously, no one has learned anything. I waited with bated breath for one voice to defend the man (not some sotto voce comments from the suddenly timid fashion crowd) whose genius has been lapped up for years, but just ended up going blue in the face. What a world. Governments can kill political/ideological opponents and get away with murder, literally, but you can't get drunk and freak out for a few minutes. No, because then they will call you anti-Jewish (in the first world, you can be anti-Muslim but not anti-Jewish) and the French (the French!) will slap a court case on you for being racist.

What is John supposed to plead now? That some of his best friends are Jews? Or, like that idiot Tracy Morgan, take classes and meet gay (substitute any word you want here) people to 'understand' them better? Morgan of course did this after an attempt to be funny by saying he would hate his son to talk in a 'gay voice'? (See? Not funny. But I dare one parent to come out and say they would like their child to be homosexual, knowing that child will then suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous youknowhat for the rest of his/her life.)

It's rumoured that Kate Moss will wear Galliano for her wedding today, and although she may do it remembering her own fall from grace a few years ago and how all the rats deserted her sinking ship then, my faith in humankind will be somewhat restored.

Still, what we suspected for years is now clear to all: In countries where freedom of speech is tom-tommed as if the Holy Grail has just been discovered, it is other people who will decide whether you have that freedom or not.

As for all those suits who made private jets and yachts and trophy blondes out of Galliano's work, meanwhile, and dropped him like he had the bubonic plague? They would do well to remember the old saying: Karma is a bitch.