Into The Battle

I’m getting lazy. It’s really bad when you start a blog and only write on/in it for a few months. What can I say? I have been busy… Yeah, yeah… excuses, excuses. I had new, cool gadgets to buy (a new 20 gig I-pod), cool shoes to purchase (the Keen Bronx is so cool!) and reading to do (just finished then latest Aurelio Zen mystery… excellent). So needless to say I have been a bit preoccupied. But here I am again in Blog-land with some observations on what has transpired over the past few weeks.

A slew of ‘hot-button’ topics have besieged our beloved country: Terry Schiavo, the death of the Pope, MJ’s trial (what a disaster!), and Charles & Camilla. (‘The simple girl with a dream’ and ‘the man who has his head up ass’ as I call them.) Some are important and are relevant to every one of us, while others are just food-for-thought.

My thoughts on the Terry Schiavo situation are this: Shame on Congress, the president (I use that term lightly, hence the reason why I refer to our ‘president’ in lower-case), and the religious right for interfering in something so personal and heart wrenching. I believe that dying with dignity is an intrinsic right for everyone, and if people want to die with grace— then let them! It isn’t my business, the government’s (this means you Mr. Daschle, ‘W’, and Jesse Jackson-- you hypocrites), or the church’s to step in and try to sustain life support when the person in question doesn’t want it. Oh yeah… where were all the politicians and religious leaders when Sun Hudson’s mother wanted to keep him alive? Apparently ‘W’ signed a bill while he was governor that would allow hospitals to terminate life support if the patient or the family couldn’t afford the expense. (Entitled The Texas Futile Care Law.) How’s that for believing in a “culture of life”? Why didn’t so-called ‘journalists’ like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Joe Scarborough do some investigating into this? I mean they are ‘fair and balanced’ news reporters, right? However, I must take mainstream TV news to task also because there was little or no coverage of what happened. I guess they are still afraid of the big, bad wolf (‘W’) and his henchmen (‘the republican party’.) I guess cowardice is a common trait if you are a TV journalist. On a side-note: I wonder if baby Sun was from a white family if the hospital would be so hasty in terminating the life support system? But I guess that question is politically incorrect in this day and age, right? After all this country is totally colorblind. If anyone who reads this believes that last statement, I have some wonderful property in Florida I have to sell to you.

The Pope’s passing has left me cold. I’m not particularly religious in the traditional sense, so that may be the reason why. However, I do hope that the bishops elect a new Pope who is more responsive to those who have been abused by priests and will be a tad bit more accepting of gays. But who am I kidding? This is the Catholic Church I’m thinking about. Progress isn’t in their vocabulary. Rumor has it that the next Pope may be black! Ha! I feel sorry for the brother who gets elected to run that organization.

The Michael Jackson trial is more of a freak show than I could have ever imagined. Friends have asked me if I think he’s guilty. For a while there, I just thought MJ was just being inappropriate for allowing young boys to sleep with him. Now, I think he’s just sick. He needed serious psychological help a long time ago and his friends and his family didn’t intervene because he was their meal ticket. I have a very hard time listening to “Off The Wall” right now.

As for Charles and Camilla, I would love to be at family gatherings when those two and Prince Harry and Prince William are in the same room. Can you imagine the conversations? Prince William to Camilla: “I will not call you mommy! You horse-faced b*#ch!” I must say that Lady Camilla has some very big shoes to fill, and I’m not sure if she’s gonna make it. But I’m sure the trials and tribulations of Charles and Camilla will make for good gossip in the tabloids…The Queen Mum should be proud.

Nuff Said.