Bill Cosby: The Phantom Menace

Something odd happens to the human consciousness once it gets on in years. All that residual psychic goo gets crystallized. The brain cavity ossifies. One becomes a curmudgeon. Eccentricity, bitterness, and the art being nasty is your lot: welcome to old age, playboy, your hip will fracture forthwith. Everything was better in ye olden days, says the angry codger: Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. Didn't need no welfare state (Ed Note: My sister, Elizabeth and I, BTW, used to think that Archie Bunker was crooning on about something called a "wolf estate").

Anyhoo: It was no surprise to me that Bill Cosby, EdD he who famously snubbed Wanda Sykes at the Emmy's showcasing her deficiency in, uhm, the language arts to a mortified audeience of her peers.

Cosby's back ... yes he is and the old man is downright grumpy; it's like they took away his PicturePages (TM) and left him with an Easy Reader (TM). According to Rush and Molloy, old mudfoot hisself was on a tear at the NAACP Brown v. Board of Education gala (The Corsair covers his face for the tornado that he knows is coming up):

"NAACP representatives weren't laughing during Bill Cosby's remarks Monday night at a D.C. gala commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Cosby, who was honored for his massive donations to black colleges, had organizers gasping when he contrasted the '60s civil-rights pioneers with some of today's African-Americans.

"'These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around,' he declared. 'The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids - $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

"'I can't even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain't, Where you is' ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!'

Note to Bill Cosby, he of the busy sweaters: Why you aint remembering the time you did voiceoverwork for a character named mushmouth

"Turning to criminal justice, (Cosby) said, 'These are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, saying, 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?"

Hey, Bill, old man on a tear, what the fuck is up with referencing the pound cake? Are you hungry? The pudding pops didn't satisfy? Why the fuck is the pound cake of such cosmic import? Is Cosby morphing into Ike Turner? What?
"Cosby's blunt appraisal left Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume looking 'stone-faced,' The Washington Post reports."