Is it my imagination -- and it may well be only that -- or is Whoopi a little lop-sided today on The View?
She looks as if she has been bobbing for banger (and I don't mean sausage)...chugging down some bong juice...sniffing in the skunk weed. Maybe it's a one-hitter quitter, a kind of dual send off to tobacco and those abba-zabba highs.
Who am I to judge? I can't remember a day in grade ten when I didn't trot off to high school without a doobie in my bag...a thankful reminder that there was something, if not someone, to help get me through my days. Even now, if I hadn't developed that heightened paranoia, I wonder if I would not still, on occasion, be packing a bit of a roach reminder in my knapsack.
Still, I can't imagine the American public being too tolerant (and tolerant would be their word) of its daytime moderator vegging out on TV time. I mean, if they weren't easy enough to vote for Adam Lambert, then what will they think of Miss Walter's uber hostess coming into work a little wonky? (I have wondered before about the mood on their set, but today I'm thinking that I ought to be doing a little more than wondering. Jo Behar is looking awfully anxious.)
Either way, it really doesn't matter. It isn't as if Whoopi's kept her habit a secret. And I can't imagine she wouldn't find a dozen ways to defend herself should the subject ever come up. Even now, I can only imagine the number of hits I'll find if I search the subject under Google.
I only hope that if she comes under fire, people will remember that we all of us have our days. I drank so much white wine at work one night it's a wonder I wasn't fired by the bar manager. As it was, I needed help from two friendly customers to bolster me home. Come to think of it, that turned out to be my first date with Don, who sat up half the night with me and held my hair.
Life is hard. Life is complicated. And as long as I live in this glass house of mine, I won't be tossing any stones in that direction. Between a rock and a hard place is a familiar location, and between a rock and a hard place is a hard place to be.
