Religious Right is Wrong

[LadyRiona]

Well, usually, we have a lot of stuff to check out and/or we are in a longish line, so I pass the time by skimming the headlines, investigating some of the interesting things. People magazine has labeled Matthew McConna-something, can't spell his last name, as the sexiest man alive. I agree with the sexy part, but alive? Hmm...*looks at Orlando Bloom calendar and goes through mental stores of uber hot guys* lol Matthew McConna-something ranks pretty high up there, though.

Yeah, she's really neat like that. Though I doubt that they would let her wear that at work. She's a hostess at a really nice restaurant.

[Anime Monster]

Well People's magazine's choices are opinion based, and it's their opinion not what the rest of the country/world would think. That's why I never believe what they say.

[LadyRiona]

I don't believe the tabloids, either...it's just hilarious to see what people think about cellulite on famous people, who's breaking up with whom, who's having who's baby...

[Anime Monster]

*sarcastic*Like that's important information*end sarcasm*

*grabs soap box from closet*Tabloid "journalism" is the reason for the break down of the English language. With all this "information" on Brad and Jen's break up, Brittney Whatever's baby, and whoever is breaking up with whom in Hollywood, who has time for important things like Anti-war protesting, Civil Rights, and the like? It's a shame.

After all, who wants to find out about world events when the headlines and top stories all have to do with Scott Peterson or some idiot teen in Aruba?

*gets off soap box*

Al, you can have my Journalism-vs-Tabolidism soapbox, now.

[LadyRiona]

My report from scanning the cover of People magazine! Pat Marito, the Japanese guy from The Karate Kid movies, passed away the other day. That's sad; he was really cool.

Brad Pitt has filed to adopt Angelina Jolie's adopted son. I think that's how it goes? Not sure. Did they get married now? O.o

This is coming from the movie-warped mind under the impression that the preppy girls care about seeing Brad Pitt's butt (yeah, he seems to be a popular person) in movies, their makeup, revenge (Mean Girls *coughcough*), and who just broke up with their best friend and why. But, I'm pretty sure that if you audited a class in a local high school and listened to the conversations carried on, you would probably learn more about tabloids and numerous other things in the space of an hour than you would watching the information channel.

However, if you asked the same students about what's going on today, the things you talked about Animon, and they'd look at you like "What?" and tilt their head to the side with a stupid smile on their face. If you asked the right ditz about the war, you'd probably hear, "There's a war?"

*shoves her soap box into the pile and flips two coins*

Sorry if that offended anyone there. That's just me and my weird self.

[Anime Monster]

I totally agree. There was a time when journalists actually cared about actual events, but now it's all the latest Hollywood garbage with two cents worth, if that much, of actual events.

Domestic Policy now envolves making sure Brittany and her whathisface husband stay together long enough for the baby to know who his father is. While foreign policy envolves making sure the Mongolians are happy (BTW, I have nothing against Mongolia, but we have a more pressing crisis in Korea).

You take a poll on the street, and this is fact, 85 percent of them couldn't tell you where Afghanistant, Iraq, or Israel, Americans were rated last amongst Canadians, French, Germans, British, Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, and Swedish. Then there were the startling facts that most couldn't locate India, thirty percent couldn't locate the Pacific Ocean, and only nineteen percent could name four countries that officially have nuclear weapons, and this is assuming that everyone tested was literate. National Geographic: Roper Geographic Survey 2002 (take the survey and see the results at the bottom--I got 19/20).

More people know "the details" to "Brad and Jen's" break up and that it's "old news" than know the location of the capital of the United States (including my own mother, it's on the east coast people on a river called the Potomac which flows between Maryland and Virgina...and no, that isn't the location of one of Brad and Jen's summer homes...).

More people know the Micky Mouse Club March than know the National Athem.

I'm fed up with it and blame a soft media which has forgotten the days of the whistle blowers and yellow journalism which was anything but yellow.

Tosses aside soap box and flips a quarter.

Oh, and all statistics above are for Americans, other countries, including Mexico, scored better.

[alanna]

In Australia the muslems are trying to change the name of christmas
to Festive or some thing like that
i belive that even if you aren't christian it has a lot of sentimental meaning and i don't think it is right that they are trying to comform us to their belives. i mean we don't go there and try to get them to stop Rammadan
LUV AL