Essay 1119

A moving MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• A New York City Councilman is pissed off over an ad from Public Storage (depicted above), claiming the message is “offensive and insulting” to outer boroughs residents. “Implying, as your company does, that there is no reason, other than your storage facilities, to visit four of the five boroughs is simply wrong,” the councilman wrote to the storage company CEO. The incident demonstrates New Yorkers never need a good reason to bitch.

• California filed a lawsuit against the U.S. operations of General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, the Chrysler division of DaimlerChrysler AG, Toyota Motor Company, Honda Motor Company and Nissan Motor Company, alleging the automakers cause global warming. Sounds like an inconvenient lawsuit.

• A new energy drink has sparked controversy with its name — Cocaine Energy Drink. The president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University said, “Kids get hopped up on drinks called Cocaine and Xtazy and then what happens when someone offers them a line of real cocaine or an Ecstasy pill?” And what about kids who drink Nelly’s Pimp Juice and then are introduced to a real pimp?

• A new Internet game pits a tequila-packing Mel Gibson against rabbis and state troopers. The game features Gibson cruising in his silver Lexus with rabbis hurling Stars of David at the actor-director. So far, over 700,000 folks have played, making it the passion of the gamers.

• Bill Cosby now wants every American to contribute $8 to fund a national slavery museum to be built on former Civil War battlefields. “The incentive is that they would join in with the rest of the United States of America in saying yes … I gave $8 to help build something that tells the story,” said Cosby. The star then probably went on a tirade against the poor descendants of slaves.