This will probably seem like a hodge podge ...

... but I am going to do my best to tie it all in together.

Jerry Lewis has found himself in an unusual predicament after he used the f- word during his annual Labor Day telethon.

He attempted to make a joke about the camera man saying, "you remember your son ... the illiterate fag."

You'd think that since Lewis is working in the "post-Grey's Anatomy" Hollywood would make some folks think harder before they actually spoke.

Now he's issued a statement saying, "I hold no prejudices in that regard." Well in what regard do you have prejudices? Maybe it's just me but I think Jerry is going a little cuckoo in his old age and next year's telethon should be for washed up, senile entertainers who don't think through their jokes.

And the next time he makes a reference to an illiterate fag, he should be talking about Sen. Larry Craig.

Speaking of that perv, now the word is he may not give up his seat in the Senate. Apparently, he is going to wait until the ethics investigation is over.

Maybe it's just me for the fact that he is being investigated for an ethics violation is enough to leave your job. Hopefully, he was voted into office because his constituents trusted him to be honest and to do what he was supposed to do.

We can't even trust this dude to tell the truth about picking up toilet paper in an airport bathroom, how can you trust him to be the legislator he is supposed to be?

Now I'm not saying he is gay, but nobody gets followed by the same rumor for 25 years. And to add injury to insult, this fool is saying that he pleaded guilty without consulting an attorney. Aren't the majority of his colleagues lawyers?

I say he needs to be thrown out of office because he can't even be honest with himself or his poor wife. If she has any sense, she'll file for divorce.
Speaking of divorce, Shaq has filed for divorce from his wife of almost five years, Shaunie.

According to the story in the local paper, Shaq wants to see a "correct accounting of all money, funds, stocks, bonds, and other securities" that she had access to while they were married.

Is it just me or is he accusing his wife and the mother of four of his children of being a gold digger?

I don't know what is going on between the two of them, but for her sake, i hope my girl has kept a record of all the money she's spent, including groceries to feed him and those kids.

It is mighty funny to me that this is coming up right now. A couple of years back, Wendy Williams "outed" Shaq for having a mistress down in Texas that he was keeping up. I have heard anything else about it since, but I don't think it would be totally out of the question.

Either way, I hope she's got all her ducks in a row because since he is the one who filed for divorce, he will be the one who has to pay for it - literally. Imagine how much child support he will have to pay for those children and the amount of alimony that will have to be paid.

In the words of the late, great Gerald Levert, "She's taking everything, she's taking everything ..."

Can we have a moment of silence ...

... in memory of the Hi-Five frontman Tony Thompson.
He was found dead last Friday outside his apartment complex from an apparent drug overdose. he was 31. That is just sad.
I won't use this post as a diatribe to tell how all of our young black men are dying for no reason, because you already know that. I will use this to say that this mess needs to stop. That's the end of that because I am not trying to get up on a soapbox about this.
Since I never admit that I'm wrong, about anything, let me be the first to tell you that maybe I wasn't completely right about TV completely sucking now.
In case you haven't seen the previews, ABC gave Shaq, that's Shaquille O'Neal, a reality show about helping to combat childhood obesity. I know this shouldn't be funny, but it is really hard NOT to laugh in this situation.
I am not laughing at ABC calling in reinforcements to help combat childhood obesity, but they got Shaq! They didn't get some health guru, a reputable physican or athletic trainer, they got Shaq. Big ole', 7-foot tall, Incredible Hulk dipped in chocolate, cockeyed Shaq.
Now don't get me wrong, I like Shaq. He's sexy, in his own way, but athletic trainer he ain't. This man was about 70 pounds overweight until he went to Miami. What can he do, besides play with these kids, that is going to encourage them to lose weight?
Speaking as a big girl myself, I just don't see how prodding from an oversized human is going to encourage folks to lose weight.
And last but certainly not least, anyone who has been watching CNN has no doubt seen the story of the married couple with three children in Tennessee who has been deployed to Iraq. This is by far the LAST straw.
How can these politicians rest at night knowing that they have sent both parents of three children ranging in ages from 9 to 12 off to fight a pointless war?If they're parents don't make it back, who is going to raise these children? Who is going to support these children?
I'll tell you who it won't be, it won't be Bush or any of his cronies. Why in the hell hasn't anyone called for Bush's impeachment?
Oh that's right, he hasn't had an affair.