Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Walking the walk A woman wrote to the editor of a Michigan newspaper claiming that Gov. Engler only pretended to make the five-mile Labor Day Walk across the Mackinac Bridge this year -- that he walked for 50 yards and then got into a van and was chauffered the rest of the way.  The Gov's office responded in the negative -- he walked across, as he does every year.  He is accompanied by a van, for various reasons including the fact that he has three young daughters who might not make it all the way.  Jennifer Granholm, it is noted, did bail out about halfway across, jumping into a car to go elsewhere "to press the flesh".  (Lansing State News) We recall that Dick Posthumus stayed away from the Bridge Walk altogether, leaving the spotlight to the Governor as he makes the walk for the last time as Governor, and wanting not to turn it into a political event.  8:27:13 AM     Pushin' it Jesse Jackson's criticism of "Barbershop" has elicited an abject apology from the film's producers for its jokes about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and, of course, JJ himself.  But he is not satisfied. The Rev now insists that the jokes be censored out of later cuts of the movie on video, DVD, cable, etc. (AP report, via YahooNews) The fact that the producers caved in immediately after becoming Jackson's target is a damned shame.  The scene shows one character commenting on each of the three -- saying nothing that was untrue, mind you -- and then the rest chiding him for "being disrespectful" to black heroes.  It was a rather authentic scene, in my eyes. 7:46:15 AM

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