A little bit of Everything


There have been lots of little things happening lately that someone needs to say a reasonable word on, so I thought I would.

Jon Benet Ramsey

Everyday in this country a 5 year old kid dies. It's sad, depressing, and sometimes shameful -- but it happens. Usually it happens to poor underprivileged kids that no one seems to worry about. But when it happens to some rich, pampered, white kid -- we have to spend months (ed. note now years) obsessing about it. If this little kid had been poor & black instead of rich and white, noone would have cared -- there's the real shame.

ellen

As in the TV show. I know that some of you will start thinking me narrow minded and priggish, but I do believe I'll stop watching her show. I'm not a big fan of homosexuals, but it is a free country, and they have the right to be whatever they want to be. I also have the right to think they're wrong -- and I'm tired of everyone telling me I have to accept their lifestyle as normal -- even genetically predisposed. Think about this people -- if homosexuality was truly a genetic matter -- there would be no gay people. If you remember your biology, it take a male and a female to reproduce -- not 2 males or 2 females. Even Melissa Etheridge and her gay-pal had to have the assistance of a man sometime. A true homosexual -- genetically predetermined -- would not reproduce, and they would eventually die off. But now we have ellen coming out of the closet as yet another homosexual on tv, and me deciding that whatever else is on at that time isn't such a bad show after all.

(ed. note 5/1/98) Apparently a lot of other people thought any other show was better than ellen as well. I suppose you can only laugh at so many lesbian jokes -- and when the show became a one joke program.......

OJ

Well, we had a black jury decide he was innocent, and a white jury decide he was guilty. So what is he? Who knows? In absolute truth, niether jury was truly a jury of his peers -- although the white jury was probably closer than the black one. A true jury of his peers would have been one of rich, black, former sports stars -- such as Marcus Allen (who, if you remember wanted nothing to do with helping OJ -- maybe he knew something we didn't.)

Dennis Miller

I like Dennis Miller -- he seems to be one of the few reasonable people on the planet. But after listening to the first tape of his Rants audiobook I have to wonder. Why would a person so intelligent and eloquent feel the need to use such foul language. Perhaps the occasional expletive to express great distress -- but the constant use of insultingly stupid language demeans Miller more than the people he's ranting about. He's still funny, just hard to listen to.