Since I have very good friends of senior citizen status who read this blog, I had to go round and round and round about how to title this post. I figure that since I don’t refer to them as finger-wagging, proselytizing grandmas, as are these next three dumbasses at which I’m encouraging folks to point and laugh, I’m probably safe, and understood then.

With that out of the way then…We betow some Ho-Sit-Down moments to:

Natalie Cole-Ms. Cole was the Whitney Houston of her day. Her first two albums sold millions, were considered R&B classics at the time, and she received her first Grammy award, at the age of 25, for that song that is now soundtracking the e-Harmony.com commercials. I remember her first Grammy speech, thanking God profusely for all the blessings he bestowed upon her, throwing her Christian self around like a beanbag - only to be discovered later as a massive cokehead.

So, for her to call out Amy Winehouse as “setting a bad example”, saying “she didn’t deserve her Grammies” because the Recording Academy was “rewarding bad behavior”, and that she “just isn’t ready” is quite laughable indeed. Not JUST for the blatant hypocrisy that these quotes expose, but for revealing a lack of recognition for her own youthful achievements. I mean, just because YOU won a Grammy at a rather young age doesn’t mean noone else can. On top of that, this was Ms. Winehouse’s 2nd CD. And I think she just celebrated HER 25th birthday, as well. You mean to tell me that, in spite of her apparent self-destructive bent, she didn’t work just as you did, to get the kudos she received?

I will always have pleasant memories of grade school and “Sophisticated Ladies”, “Inseparable”, “My Love”, et. al. But for conveniently forgetting her past to damn the present, Ms. Cole needs to sit the hell down, and STFU.

Yoko Ono-Jeez, where do I start with this opportunistic hag?

For the last time, Ms. Thang, just because someone shares a name similar to your late husband’s doesn’t automatically make them a wallet, dammit! At least Julian has some sense.

Aretha Franklin-Talk about touchy! I don’t want to get too mean here, because I’ve been an an Aretha fan ever since my big bro pumped “Think” in his MG’s AM radio back when I was 4-ish. But, you have to wonder, at the age of 65, shouldn’t she have been OVER this Queen of Soul business a long time ago? Talk about lack of personal dignity. Puleeeeeeeeeeeeze….