MEL GIBSON

The latest ugly remarks that this gifted actor- director has made are shocking. Mel Gibson's recent behavior makes it difficult to support him in any way.

Why is Gibson continuing to ruin his reputation, raving and ranting, uninhibitedly, blatantly attacking Oksana Grigorieva, who gave birth to their daughter five months ago?

"They just drifted apart," a friend told the "Daily News." The friend said they're still friends and they'll both raise Lucia together.

While Gibson is in Mexico filming "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," Oksana is said to be busy working on her music career.

Though the couple said they didn't plan to get married, Oksana, 39, told the U.K. edition of Glamour that she wouldn't mind becoming Mrs. Gibson. "But right now we're just so happy to be having this child together," she said in November.

Gibson, 54, is also the father of seven children with his former wife Robyn, whom he divorced last year after 30 years of marriage. Grigorieva has a son, Alexander, with her former boyfriend, actor Timothy Dalton.

REBELS

This is on T shirts that some of the REBELS wear.

REBELS SAY: Overthrow/ impeach Obama --he's "illegally the president," "he isn't American born," "he's a socialist, he 's Nazi, he's a communist."

(I want to put my head in a teacup -- it sounds like jabberwocky from "Alice in Wonderland.")

REBELS: Cut taxes! Don't pay your taxes! Don't extend unemployment insurance! Don't waste tax dollars on hobos who won't take menial jobs!

(But if the unemployed guys had a little money, they'd spend money, and don't people who spend money help end the recession?)

REBELS: End the wars! Bomb Iran!

(Gee -- end the war/start a war -- won't we have a bigger war to end?)

REBELS: Take America back!

(Uh ... take it back from whom? The Democrats? Didn't we elect Barack Obama.)

REBELS: Join the Militias! March! Be prepared to kill the "Anti Christ!"

(Golly, that s what the Hutaree militias in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio were plotting, and they're in jail, aren't they?)

REBELS: Do what Sarah Palin says, what's wrong with being the party of no? Don't retreat. Reload,

(Hey, guys -- fight the government -- "overthrow" the government -- isn't that treason?

And Nevada's Sharron Angle, the Tea Party nominee, says that the second amendment is there "for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government." And Minnesota's Michele Bachmann wants folks "armed and dangerous because we need to fight back," and Alabama's Rib Barber, Republican candidate has an ad with George Washington declaring " "Gather your armies."

And Oklahoma legislators are actually, right now, trying to pass laws that will allow them to gather their own armies and fight the federal government.

Hey, gee, golly -- I feel as if I'm watching an old movie -- "Rebel without a Cause," a big bunch of restless, troubled, complaining adolescents getting together to do something -- it doesn't matter what -- as long as they get rid of the bad guys, but gee, who are the bad guys?

MALE MENOPAUSE

Before I ever read anything about Menopause and females, I was sure men suffered from monthlies. I noticed that men got moody -- got pent-up feelings the same as I did, as most women do, as their time of the month approaches.

It's bloating, inner tension -- headaches -- crampy feelings down there somewhere -- cranky, picky sensitivities -- these so-called PMS symptoms come on and take over every 25 days or so.

The "blue boo-hoos" is what I called them (still call them). (Out of nowhere, for no reason, suddenly I'd find myself shedding tears, feeling very sorry for myself -- I'd focus on my looks, or some stupid, tactical error I made a week ago, a year ago -- I'd find something that was bad, wrong, sad.

So if I'm right about guys, what brings on their monthlies? Is it a monthly thing? Or is it merely that every so often a man gets into a blue mood, and tries, gets very frustrated, when he can't throw it off?

I think it's a time-passing thing that has to do with life -- the seasons, the months, monthly routines, and the rhythms of a week -- weekend for fun that often isn't much fun -- anticipating the back-to-the-grind of Monday -- Wednesday, the sigh -- it's the middle of the week and the chores must be done today, or postponed, because it's practically Friday!

Work, chores, deadlines, recreations -- all of it's ordered (or not ordered at all), in a person's mind, and you feel time-passing -- you feel yourself ageing.

The sense of undone things, things, things accumulates! And builds, swells in a man mind, creates a pressure that bloats him, irritates, makes him cranky, picky, sensitive depressive -- he's got "MPS " (Male Pressure Syndrome). He needs to blow off the steam, let it out, let it go.

Maybe it's monthly because males and females echo each other -- moms and pops, gays or straights -- what affects one affects the other. Whether you're half of a couple, or all by yourself, you feel 25 to 30 days going, going, gone -- the name of the month, the season, is changing and you can't get the beginning of the month or the start of the season back.

Dr. Em says that's "Menopause." It is a pause. You might as well enjoy it. The regular, normal, ordinary, rhythm of life gets boring, annoying, infuriating, intolerable, keeps bothering you, swelling -- yes, swelling till you pop -- you yell, complain, punch a pillow, pick a fight, boo-hoo and you will feel emptier, skinnier, sort of energized, ready to reach out and grab on to the next bunch of new days.

NEW GUYS

I have to keep checking on who's-who in Iraq. And not get it mixed up with the guy in Iran, or the Afghan guy. I can't pronounce the names quickly and spelling defeats me, so ...

Here's a jingle:
Allawi's the guy in Iraq --
Not the guy to mock, or whack.
King-pin Al-Sadr says Nouri's out,
And he knows what Iraq's about.
TV "Iraiya" says hurrah -- it's him --
Nouri-al-Maliki's future is dim.

Here's the cast list:
Nouri al-Maliki -- current prime minister.
Al-Sadr -- powerful Shia cleric.
Iraiya -- Satellite news that 85 % of the Iraqi people watch.
Iraiya's head guy, Jaml al-Bateekh says it's Allawi.
But Iyad Allawi is four seats short of the majority needed to form a government.

So, who's who in Iran?
The President is still Mahmoud Ahmadinajad, who wears American suits and insists there wasn't a holocaust, who lost the election last year, but claims he won it.

The Ayatollah Kahomeni, head religious guy, said the voter turnout during last year's religious holidays was a "divine assessment" and pardoned 81 of the 530 prisoners, diverting attention away from Ahmadinajad, who's proclaimed the election was "completely free, a great victory for Iran," dismissing the protests as little more than "passions after a soccer match."

Well, one of the candidates, Mousavi, who probably won, lodged an official appeal. Karroubi, the reform candidate, who supports civil rights and women's rights, demanded the election be canceled, and says, "We'll fight to the death."

A graphic video showing a young girl, Neda Soltan's death on the street during the riots was posted on YouTube and viewed by millions around the world, turning her into an icon of Iran's "Green Movement." In a new documentary that investigates Neda's killing, with no mention of last June's election/riots/protests, a guard, Abbas Kargar, is accused of shooting her (he's Persian so Iran's blaming it on Persia).

Here's my jingle:
In Iran, resident President Ahmadinajad can
Play things his way, and say
Down with the Jews -- that's old news!
There's no green revolution.
Nothing needs a solution.
Karroubi didn't win --
Mousavi's a has-been.
There's nothing to fear --
We're doing nothing nuclear.

So what's confusing about that?

And Afghanistan? The head guy is Karzai, who's sort of on friendly terms with Hillary Clinton and Obama, but doesn't want the U.S. training soldiers, or empowering other local guys, and he's openly opposed to General Patraeus.

So:
The do-or-die, Karzai
Says no,
Wants us to go.
Says pooh --
On what we want him to do.
What now? Holy cow--
The end of occupation?
Or continuing aggravation?

So, now you know what I know. Aside from who's-who, and what's-what, and a bunch of hard-to-pronounce/hard-to-remember names, I am worried -- bewildered -- not sure where we are heading, and why we're heading wherever we seem, more or less, to be heading?