I Don't Get It

I haven’t watched the Academy Awards in years and had no clue why Seth MacFarlane was the host.  I don’t watch cartoons so I have no idea what “Family Guy” is all about.  That being said, the next day my news page featured several headlines about him and some stupid song he sang at the [...]

I generally muse about the political, social and cultural life in America but sometimes I see or read something beyond our shores that has me shaking my head.  Stories about the “Royals” are an example. First of all, let me say that I haven’t a clue why people are so fascinated with the English royal [...]

America is getting soft and here’s why.  Everyday, I see and read about more complainers, cry-babies, and thin-skinned whiners.  Whatever happened to the old adage, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me”?  It seems that, now, everyone is offended by something and everyone is willing to don a cap [...]

Bioethicist Daniel Callahan, in a recent editorial published in the Hastings Center Report, suggests that fat people should be shamed into losing weight.  His strategy involves “social pressure combined with vigorous government action.” There are lots of reasons why people are fat.  I’m not about to sit in judgment of why someone is fat because [...]

Ok.  When I was a MUCH younger person, I did a lot of stupid things for attention.  For whatever reason, any attention (whether it was good or bad attention) was better than no attention.  But that was then, and this is now. Madonna hasn’t figured this out.  For her, any attention is still important. I’ve [...]

I’ve written before about the results and consequences facing children who are born out of wedlock.  The whole “I don’t need to be married in order to have a child” lifestyle, encouraged by the example of numerous celebrities who the media glorify, will continue to have an enormous negative impact on society.  Legitimate studies already [...]

Celebrities crack me up.  Not all celebrities.  There are some actors and actresses that stay out of the limelight and relish their privacy.  I’m talking about those who are attention-seeking junkies who spend every waking moment trying to be relevant.  Then, when something goes wrong in their lives, they want the cameras off, the lights [...]

A few stories in the news piqued my interest this week. One was the story of the eventual death of a 2-year old toddler who, a week earlier, was run over by not one, but two vans in China and left in the street to die while 18 bystanders rode or walked by before someone [...]

I don’t know much about Katy Perry but I do like some of her music.  Although I’m not quoting it as a viable source, wikipedia says she grew up in Santa Barbara with parents who were Christian pastors.  That being said, how does someone with what appears to be a decent upbringing get so out [...]

I find it very difficult to separate a man from his opinions.  If I don’t like an actor’s political views, I won’t spend one dime on a movie if I know it will end up in his or her pocket.  For example, I never watched Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior because of Janeane Garofalo and her [...]