Having grown up in the South, I know first hand about the controversy surrounding the Confederate Flag.

Good or bad, it’s a part of who we are and we accept that. Most of us don’t fly it on our flag poles but we don’t cringe when we see it like people in other parts of the country do.

I’m not exactly sure why Michigan born and bred Kid Rock feels the need to embrace it, but given his true love of Southern rock-n-roll I suppose one could stretch your mind around him defending it. Having said that, I do not believe Kid Rock is racist ..but these people do.

Bob was supposed to accept the NAACP’s Detroit chapter’s Great Expectations Award at their annual Freedom Fund dinner in May, but some members of the historic black rights organization are so unhappy about it, they’re boycotting the 10,000 person affair.

They are pissed off that uses the flag on stage.

“It’s a slap in the face for anyone who fought for civil rights in this country,” Adolph Mongo, head of Detroiters for Progress and a boycotting NAACP member, “It’s a symbol of hatred and bigotry.”

For his part, Rock defended the use of the flag in a 2008 interview with the Guardian. “Why should someone be able to own any image and say what it is?” he said. “Sure, it’s definitely got some scars, but I’ve never had an issue with it. To me it just represents pride in southern rock’n'roll music, plus it just looks cool.”

He also spoke about touring with a famed rapper and how it impacted his audience.

“I’ve got Rev Run [from Run DMC] on tour with me right now – we have fun trying to count the number of black people every night. We’re like, ‘There’s 14 tonight, yeah!’”

I won’t give you any of the tired ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree‘ expressions here. Besides it more like ‘the leaf doesn’t fall far from the coca plant’.

The pictures of Whitney Houston and Bobby Browns daughter …Bobbi Kristina Brown…allegedly sniffing coke have been  published in the National Inquirer.

Yes kids, an egg. Naturally.

A pun on her new song Born This Way I’m sure.

Yada yada yada…Pamela Anderson…Playboy….again…13th time….some kind of poem too…yada yada yada.

What should have been the best day of Nicole Richie’s life turned out to be a stress-filled, disappointed mess.

The first problem started when Nicole couldn’t get the price from the tabloids that she wanted for the exclusive rights to the wedding pictures. She ended up selling them to People for much less than her original $100,000 request. And she didn’t even get the cover..her big day was reduced to just a sidebar.

Then she had to have her security team confiscate any and all cell phones and cameras to ensure that none of the guests leaked any unauthorized pictures.

Then there was the drama over Paris Hilton not being invited, even though her sister Nicky Hilton was on the guest list.

And what happened to her BFF’s Christina Aguilera and Kim Kardashian? Both no shows. Xtina was even supposed to perform. That one really had to suck. I can’t imagine getting married without your girls around you.

See kids? It’s not always a fairytale in Lala-Land.