Sharon Stone! Thank you for being a colossal moron in the face of overwhelming tragedy and giving us all a convenient target for our formless and amorphous rage. In a time when a horrible natural disaster rendered thousands of people dead, injured, homeless, grieving and worse, I’m so happy you could be counted on to get up in front of the world and openly declare that THEY HAD IT COMING!
But you know, it’s downright unfair of me to castigate her without letting her tell HER side of the story, so here it is, in her own spectacularly idiotic words:
“All these earthquakes and stuff happened and I thought, ‘Is that karma?’ When you are not nice, bad things happen to you. I’m not happy about how the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. They’re not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who’s a good friend of mine.”
Yes! YES! Finally, someone gets it! All those Chinese infants who are now orphans because of the earthquake are finally getting what they deserve for all those years of persecuting Tibetans! I remember when that baby giggled as he ran over students in a tank in Tiennamen Square! I watched in horror as that Chinese day care set those monks on fire before retiring to watch state-approved children’s programming with their juice boxes!
And the irony is that none of this ever actually happened. Sharon Stone’s criminally grotesque ignorance doesn’t do anyone any favors, especially not the legions of folks currently enduring hardships on a scale imaginable only by a few–like Hurricane Katrina victims or most of Myanmar.
Sharon, honey, pay attention–these people are currently going through hell on earth. The last thing they need is some over-the-hill former thriller movie starlet telling them they had it coming. But on a fun note, did you know she’s got at least four movies coming out over the course of the next two years? And there’s already some word that the biggest theatre chains in China will not be interested in carrying them.
See, Sharon…THAT’S karma.
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You’ll notice I used a picture of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake for this story. You know who else was moving into the city when that happened? IT IS A CONSPIRACY.
The funniest part to me is that they retaliated by banning Sharon Stone movies, as if she’s been in anything anyone would want to see in the last decade.
Also, didn’t Pat Robertson say something similar about 9/11? I never really though those two would have anything in common.
I actually meant the Chinatown community as opposed to the fellows Robertson was talking about.
And actually, according to Wikipedia, they didn’t do too badly with the quake.
“Furthermore, plans to move Chinatown and the poor away from the city center failed, as Chinatown was rebuilt in the newer, modern, Western form that exists today. In fact, the destruction of City Hall and the Hall of Records enabled thousands of Chinese immigrants to claim residency and citizenship, and bring in their relatives from China.”
I’m not being sarcastic when I say I really love this city.