Priorities and Meltdowns
I am completely baffled as to why the U.S. Congress is so interested in whether one citizen named Roger Clemens, a baseball player, has taken steroids, or why the U.S. news gatherers feel the need to report each and every day on the difficulties of one singer named Britney Spears in holding on to custody of her children. And if it wasn't that it would be something else. In her case that has been true for three or four years.
Meanwhile the ice is melting at a great rate at both the polar circles, and we are inexorably sliding into a global oven of our own making. And meanwhile all the conditions seem to be in place for a gigantic financial meltdown, and for some people, especially homeowners, that infinitely painful process has started. And meanwhile events keep happening, such as the one two days ago at Turkey Point in Florida, that remind us of how close we always are to a nuclear power plant meltdown somewhere, with the potential to cut a chunk out of our country for centuries, when it comes to being habitable. And also meanwhile a humanitarian meltdown that was started by some Americans has already been well underway in Iraq for five years, and, in spite of the claims made by a man allegedly serving as the President plus another man who would like to succeed him, it still shows no signs of abating.
But, in the face of all those catastrophes, most in various stages of actually taking place -- and if the news reports are any gauge -- the personal pharmaceutical affairs of a baseball player and the personal domestic affairs of a singer are the situations that matter most, and we are expected to understand that.
If they were to pop up in front of me, I would be unable to recognize Roger Clemens or Britney Spears even a little bit. I've never seen Clemens hurl a baseball or heard Britney Spears trilling some lyrics.
That must be the answer. By doing nothing to correct those glaring deficiencies in my cultural life, I have failed to meet those two overriding obligations of all good Americans.
Meanwhile the ice is melting at a great rate at both the polar circles, and we are inexorably sliding into a global oven of our own making. And meanwhile all the conditions seem to be in place for a gigantic financial meltdown, and for some people, especially homeowners, that infinitely painful process has started. And meanwhile events keep happening, such as the one two days ago at Turkey Point in Florida, that remind us of how close we always are to a nuclear power plant meltdown somewhere, with the potential to cut a chunk out of our country for centuries, when it comes to being habitable. And also meanwhile a humanitarian meltdown that was started by some Americans has already been well underway in Iraq for five years, and, in spite of the claims made by a man allegedly serving as the President plus another man who would like to succeed him, it still shows no signs of abating.
But, in the face of all those catastrophes, most in various stages of actually taking place -- and if the news reports are any gauge -- the personal pharmaceutical affairs of a baseball player and the personal domestic affairs of a singer are the situations that matter most, and we are expected to understand that.
If they were to pop up in front of me, I would be unable to recognize Roger Clemens or Britney Spears even a little bit. I've never seen Clemens hurl a baseball or heard Britney Spears trilling some lyrics.
That must be the answer. By doing nothing to correct those glaring deficiencies in my cultural life, I have failed to meet those two overriding obligations of all good Americans.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 9:48 AM
1 Comments:
Is the situation surreal, or what?
Personally, I'm a baseball fan. And I'd like to see any and all cheaters tried in the court of public opinion and convicted in the pocketbook and ego - where it hurts them worst.
I'm not exactly a pop music fan, but as to Ms. Spears - let her and any other of her ilk suffer the same.
Congress only demeans itself by this sidetracking. They're grandstanding to get their faces on camera and names in print.
If they want to join the pop/sports culture, let them suffer the same process - trial by ballot box and punished in the pocketbook and ego.
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