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One of the best shows on television used to be Big Love, a quirky show on HBO about a fundamentalist Mormon family (read polygamy) trying to navigate the breach between compound life and the real world.

The characters were real. Interesting. Likable.

This year, it’s a different show. Just a few of the mashed together story-lines and themes after only three episodes:

* Gay sex everywhere. The leader of the compound is gay. So is a receiver. Anal sex in the family.
* Incestuous desires in the family.
* Gambling and running a casino.
* Drinking alcohol.
* LDS Church bashing.
* Guns.
* Digging up dead bodies to cover-up a murder.
* Intentional lies to the real Mormon Church.
* A polygamist running for public office so he can expose his family’s criminal lifestyle.
* The family creating their own church.
* Extortion … and crazies everywhere.

An out of control mass of ridiculous story-lines that is beyond silly. Just plain stupid.

Why the change in tone?

Last year the Mormon Church had an issue with one of the episodes. A complaint I felt was premature and ultimately wrong. There is also the current highly publicized political debate in California and warfare between the Church and the gay community.

Big Love is created by two openly gay guys from Hollywood. Looks to me like they’re now trying to hurt the Church. Ultimately, they’re just hurting the show.

It just keeps getting uglier and uglier for Tiger Woods.

Seems like we’ve lost count of the number of bimbos he’s been with.

Now there are reports of x-rated photos.

There is an absurd question being floated of whether Tiger will play golf again. (Yes, he will.)

The first sponsor has dropped him – with more to follow.

All we’re missing at this point is Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton. I can’t believe they would miss a publicity angle in this high-profile spectacle.

It wasn’t that long ago American Idol hit ratings gold with Adam Lambert – a cool and edgy performer taking different, unique, fun, interesting, and entertaining new perspectives on songs.

Ring of Fire – Wow
Mad World – Wow Wow

Like them or not, there was no denying Lambert’s talent.

Suddenly, Adam Lambert was hot.

Was he gay? Probably. But he refused to talk about it because it had nothing to do with his performances and the personality he was trying to express.

Then American Idol ended. There was the tour where all the Idols, except Adam Lambert, would spend time signing autographs for fans waiting hours after the concert. Adam Lambert was straight to the bus.

Now, with a few songs out and a first album one wouldn’t know this was the same person.

Cool perspectives on songs? Nope. Very, very boring – anyone could be singing – songs. Heard them on the radio? Nope. If a song is lucky enough to crack the Top 100 for one week it immediately dies and disappears.

Now, of course, the only thing anyone, including Adam Lambert, wants to talk about is being gay. It’s no longer about the music.

His flaming album cover didn’t help either. While Adam Lambert surely racks up a couple hundred thousand album sales – that is from pre-orders BEFORE anyone heard any songs, before anyone saw the album cover, before the sex stunts at the awards show, before Lambert decided that being gay was more important than being a musical talent.

Fame is fleeting. Lambert is talented and certainly deserves a second shot, a second album to redeem his American Idol aura which led to his initial fame. Otherwise, it will soon be back to backup theatre roles – or maybe he can cash in as a gay porn star.

Sadly, though, do you think Lambert realizes what is happening?

Update: 12/10/9 – Once again, Adam Lambert’s latest song touched into the Top 100 last week and is gone this week. Now that the pre-order numbers are done, album sales are tanking. Given all the incredible hype and free media publicity (that even the Idol winner Kris Allen has not received) – this is really embarrassing.

This week various representatives of the United Nations have stated:

1. Free condoms are needed for population control to reduce global warming, and now today -

2. Global warming is forcing women into prostitution.

On actual ‘global warming’ news, scientists (even the biggest proponents of global warming) are apparently now agreed that there has been no global warming the last 10 years – and they can’t figure out why.

Is global warming a concern or not? I don’t know.

But I do know that hysterical pronouncements that have no factual support and which are simply absurd on the face, hurt the credibility of those who say we should be concerned.

Does the UN do anything useful?

By the way, if you don’t like this post – blame global warming and not me

Yahoo, a San Francisco area company, likes to run every pro-Gay article and story it can find on its headlines. But this week with Maine citizens voting against gay marriage – not a peep about it on the front of Yahoo.

Hey Yahoo – it’s 31-0. Meaning: there have been 31 states where gay marriage has been put up for a decision by the people, and 31 states have said no.

The only places where this is even an issue is where a some judge has decided he knows better than everyone else, or a legislature has decided it does not need to represent the will of the people it purports to represent.

31 – 0. That means something.