As I'm sitting around the house waiting for new job to start, I came across a few items in the newspaper that I felt were worthy of comment:
Headlines courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Madonna blasted for stirring up lust": Yes, apparently the Material Girl is stirring up sinful emotions with the people of Chile, at least according to Chilean Cardinal Jorge Medina. Cardinal Medina spoke out in his sermon on Wednesday saying that Madonna was causing "crazy enthusiasm" and "impure thoughts" during her current concert tour in Chile, the first time she has ever toured the country. This is of course not a new accusation. Madonna herself tends to encourage such comments I would imagine (how else to explain Erotica?). What got me was the venue that Cardinal Medina chose to make his comments, a mass in honor of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. So I guess as far as the Cardinal is concerned making 3,000 or so dissidents "disappear" forever is OK but causing people to think lustful thoughts is not.
"Reid tries to clear air over 'smelly' remark": It appears that Nevada Senator Harry Reid doesn't like the smell of tourists that visit the Capitol. He too chose a very interesting time to make his disparaging remark, the grand opening of the new Capitol Visitor Center. Reid noted during the opening that in the summertime "you can literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol." What got me was Reid's response to the flak that he got from a number of sources including his hometown newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "Anyone who took the time to watch my statement or read it in full knows the point I was making: I'm always pleased when the Capitol is filled with citizens eager to learn about our country's great history and the work that we do in that historic building," Reid wrote in a letter to the Review-Journal. So is Senator Reid pleased about the tourists' smell? Does it smell like victory to him? (bonus points to you if you get the reference) That's the only way I can see his point. No wonder the car bailout bill failed.
"Study finds many kids use herbal remedies": Unbeknownst to most of us I would guess, the government conducted a survey and found 1 in 9 kids are using some form of alternative medicine, such as herbal remedies and acupuncture. This does not include religious healing, by the way, as the government was quick to point out. What got me here is who is using them and what they are being used for. The survey found that kids that were covered by private insurance plans were more likely to use alternative medicine than those who were uninsured. I guess it makes sense in that richer kids would be more likely to experiment compared to poor ones, no doubt with the encouragement of their yuppie parents, but what does it say about private insurance? The survey also found that alternative medicine was being used to relieve back and neck pain more than anything else. What does it say about our kids today when so many are suffering from pains commonly associated with old people?
"'Day Without a Gay' demo fizzles": Yes, if you were homosexual you were supposed to call in sick on Wednesday in protest over the passage of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California. However, it appears that few gay people did, even in gay friendly San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed some gay people (they are easy to find in San Francisco) and many of them told the Chronicle that they couldn't afford to take the day off because of the uncertain economic situation. Some gay store owners complained to the Chronicle that the gay boycott came in the middle of the Christmas shopping season. What got me was that for all the attention being paid to gay marriage these days it's still trumped by the economy in the minds of most gay people. Even gay people are more concerned about their pay checks then about making a protest. If that doesn't demonstrate just how normal gay people are I don't know what else will.
"Abdul says Fox ignored stalker issue": I cover this in detail at my other blog, The Armchair Idol Judge. Go ahead and click, I know you want to...
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