They are all our losers of the week.
Counting from the biggest loser on down...
1. Lisa Rinna is an actress most famous for "Days of Our Lives" and collagen injections. She became a reality show staple, first with "Dancing with the Stars" and then "Harry Loves Lisa".
Rinna then established a career as an adequate red-carpet host. But that was until she totally "jumped the shark" this week with a truly embarassing performance on the "Celebrity Apprentice". But the fun didn't stop even after Donald Trump delivered those famous two words: "You're fired."
Rinna extended her own humilaition in the fake board room, by sending "harassing" emails and insulting tweets about rival Star Jones. Rinna says the emails were harmless, but Jones directed them all to NBC's corporate lawyers and discussed getting an order of protection.
Man, this is the most heated "Apprentice" feud since.....last week when Richard Hatch pushed around David Cassidy.
2. The Transportation Security Administration is spin-doctoring upon word that X-ray body scanners used at airports are emitting up to "10 times higher than expected" levels of radiation.
TSA Head John Pirrone swears the radiation zappers are safe, but would he tell us if they weren't it ? His job is to get voluntary compliance from the public and keep those airport lines moving.
Couch Potato Cop recommends that if you are subject to the "random" security search, choose the pat down over the scanner. It's better to get groped than zapped. Sure it's unpleasant, but it will be over in a minute and there's a 100% guarantee that there will be no harmful after-affects.
3. To say that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino bombed at the Donald Trump Celebrity Roast is like saying Napoleon had an offnight at Waterloo. The Situation heard nothing but stunned silence with a smattering of crickets at the Hammerstein Ballroom. That is, until the booing kicked in. Priceless was the look of stunned silence from Ice Tea who was in the audience. As the audience was turning on him, Sorrentino said: "Maybe comedy ain't my game right now." No truer words were ever spoken.
4. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's approval ratings hit an 8-year low. Not surprising since hizzoner's 3rd term has been marked by a low-energy, care-taker attitude as he prepares to run for president. The only people loving Bloomberg right now are the Bike Lane Nazis.
5. The cash-strapped New York Mets finally cut loose under-achieving second baseman Luis Castillo, eating the remainder of his contract. Don't feel bad for Castillo: he will be paid $6 million to not play for the Mets this season.
Castillo was one of the most hated players in New York in recent memory. He got off on the wrong foot in 2008: more than just having a poor year--as any player could have-- Castillo flat-out didn't hustle. He wouldn't run out ground balls and his fielding was abysmal. He started to turn it around the next season, and indeed batted over .300. But the entire season was marred by Castillo muffing an easy pop-up on the last play of the game, turning a Met win against the hated Yankees into a spirit-crushing defeat. That play has defined Castillo's tenure with the Mets. Had he dropped that same ball and lost a game against, say, the Washington Senators, fans would have been irate for sure, but they would have moved on.
6. Most people hadn't heard the name Cappie Pondexter until this week. She is one of the best players in the WNBA, a fringe-league plagued by meager attendance and impossibly-low television ratings. To supplement her WNBA income, Pondexter is currently playing basketball in Europe.
Yet, through the power of Twitter, Pondexter made a global ass of herself. In multiple angry tweets, Pondexter said that the victims of Japan's earthquake and tsunami got what they deserved and that God "makes no mistakes".
In her nonsensical ramblings, Pondexter apparently confused Japan with China when she wrote "What if God was tired of the way they treat their own people in their own country. He makes no mistakes." Pondexter was apparently referring to civil rights violations in China, not realizing it's a separate nation.
She also referenced Pearl Harbor and addressed a fellow tweeter as a "Jap".
Making the situation worse was Pondexter's lame apology: sorry that her words were interpreted the wrong way.
The people of Japan have much bigger things to worry about than a young athlete's ignorant tweets. Still, the WNBA and NY Liberty should have done a better job condemning the original comments and making it clear that they were unacceptable. The problem is the bottom line: Japanese Americans don't make up a big market share of the NY Liberty's attendance.
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