I gotta tell you, there are some goings-on in the world that truly leave me “confuzzled”. I think I’m done giving them an ounce of my brain cells but for a moment, they do make me wonder,”WIDH?!” (translation: what-in-da-hell) Lemme lay them out and then you tell me.

1. Star Jones is still “losing weight”. Yesterday, she announced that she filed for divorce back in March. Not that it matters, but many people were expecting it…based on conjecture. Why does this situation have me confuzzled? In her statement, Jones says, “Three years ago I made a huge error in judgment by inviting the media into one of the most intimate areas of my life…”Really? THAT was your biggest error in judgment? What? I’m just saying.

2. Prophetess Juanita Bynum is appearing on “Divorce Court” with Judge Lynn Toler. Why? Seriously. If every there was a call for the church mother to say, “Baby…Sistah…Saint, you need to sit cho’ be-hind d-o-w-n quick, fast & in a hurry!”, it’s now. Bynum is going to share with the audience the fact that her marriage is over. Um. Ok. Cause we were really waiting to hear that. Again. I know Bynum said she was going to be the “new face of domestic violence” but something about THIS appearance and other recent appearances feel more like she’s trying to be “the face” period.

When asked, Bynum had this to say about thoughts of suicide: “Suicide crossed my mind…You know, I felt hopeless. I didn’t because the name Bynum represents a legacy of people that have gone before me and had I done that I would have given too much power to an individual to not just wipe me out but to wipe out the integrity of the legacy I was born in.”

I’m thankful that she pulled herself back from the edge of those thoughts. I truly am. And I continue to lift her up in prayer. And I pray that she slows down long enough to truly take a look at what’s happened – lift it up, look underneath it – because her words about “given too much power to an individual” says that she still hasn’t owned her part in her own pain. Own your pain Sistah…fuel your purpose.

3. What was the deal with actor Orlando Brown? (You know, Raven’s sidekick “Eddie” from the “That’s So Raven” show) Yesterday we get word that he’s been missing for a couple of days, that he just disappeared despite having appointments and whatnot schedule. That he apparently left his manager’s house to swing by the 7-11 before some meeting and he disappeared. Not long after that story broke, we get word that he’s been “found”. He says he had a rough few days and just needed some time to regroup. Ok. Understood. But next time, could you just TELL somebody that in THOSE words?!

4. What the heck is up with Bill Clinton? That man has come completely undone as of late. I’m surprised – given who he is and the battles he’s had on his hands during his political career. That whole interview where he accused the Obama campaign of trying to “play the race card” with him? Maaaan! It’s in reference to the comments Clinton made after Obama won South Carolina, how he basically said “So what? Jesse Jackson won South Carolina back in the day too. And?”

What really got me about the interview is Clinton saying, “you really have to go some to play the race card with me.” His reasons include the fact that his office is in Harlem, Harlem voted for his wife and that he’s brought drugs for AIDS to over 1.4 million people – mostly people of color.

Hmmm…is this were we’re supposed to convene the next “All-Black-People meeting” and sing songs of praise to him? “Thank ya mighty kindly Suh. We’s mighty beholden to you Suh.” Ugh. Just…U-G-H. Nothing makes my teeth itch like folks who do things supposedly “for” other people and then turn around and say “After all I’ve done for you” when in actuality it was all about them from the giddy-up.

Bill, Bill, Bill. That artificial “blackness” that some folk heaped upon you is starting to wear thin. And after the way you’ve attacked Obama, you best believe ain’t nary a person willing to stand up and freshen that for you.

If I were a DJ, I’d remix Clinton’s diatribe with snippets of the Dr. Ian/Tocarra meltdown where Dr. is “encouraging” her to show some class. I’d even include the part where, clearly believing himself to be off-air, Clinton said, “I don’t think I should have to take any &^% off anybody about that, do you?”

5. Kwame Kilpatrick. Kwame, Kwame, Kwame. *sigh* Brother. *smh*
Kilpatrick told a recent gathering that he was “being punished by his God”. God is probably sitting on His throne, scratching His head, saying, “Huh? Oh now since you busted beyond repair, NOW you wanna bring me into it? Playa Please!”

6. Alicia Keys and Fiddy Cent. Riddle me this Batman: let’s say for sake of argument that Alicia Keys really DID say what Blender magazine printed, you know – the whole gangsta rap being created by the government as a way for our people to kill each other. Let’s say she did say it (I’m really curious as to what she *thinks* she said and how it got so twisted. Seriously.). Why is Fiddy Cent ticked with her, talking about how he doesn’t like her anymore? If that’s what she believes, why does it matter to him one way or the other? Allegedly, she says gangsta rap didn’t exist. Ok. At some point, it didn’t. At some point, NOTHING that we know of in the world existed. And? Me no get it. But it’s cool: me don’t need to. LOL

7. Actor Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for his reportedly tax-evading behavior. Is anybody really surprised? What puzzles me is him bringing the court letters regarding his character from his celebrity friends. Um…huh? Why? What’s the point of that? Your friends know what you show them about you. Heck, we have folks who live together and then get blindsided by each other’s behaviors so why would your friends’ thoughts necessary hold water? You know if that had worked, Ron “Mr. Big” Isley would’ve been up in his cell cussing up a storm!