or are we going on about the wrong things?<\/p>\n
For example:<\/p>\n
1) Miley Cyrus in the (red satin) sheet(s<\/strong>.) Okay, maybe it’s because I’m not a mom (of a teenage girl), but I don’t get it. Miley poses for an artistic lovely shot by one of the world’s best photographers and it’s a National Crisis. Meanwhile, Jamie Lyn Spears (same approximate age) gets pregnant and gets a RAISE, not to mention keeping her spot on her Nickelodeon show; girls a few years younger than Miss Miley are half-naked regularly (go to the mall, the jr. high dance, a bar mitzvah for pete’s sake); and today I turned on tv at 6 p.m (SIX!) to girls baring their breasts on an “E wildest spring break moments feature.” Oy.<\/p>\n Yes, maybe those girls are 18 in the spring break shot, maybe they’re 20. Still. But an attractive young adult, on the brink of womanhood, showing a tasteful glimpse of that in an artistic way? it doesn’t offend me. In fact I wish the Britneys, Tila Tequilas and Kim Kardashians of the world could have a sliver of this art and grace in their long-since-emerged sensuality.<\/p>\n To hear a counterpoint that considers a lot of sources and perspectives, please check out Mir’s Miley Cyrus headed down a slippery (half-naked) slope? | BlogHer <\/a>(and yes, I’ve just discovered “Blogher” in case you haven’t noticed by all the blogher references on my page lately.)<\/p>\n 2) Obama and Wright Again, I just don’t get it. I thought parts of The Historic Race Speech were intelligent, articulate, thought-provoking. I think some of what Rev. Wright says is similarly thought-provoking and afflicting in all the best ways that would hope a guide or leader would do, especially a spiritual one. But… as a Scandal? Controversy? I don’t get it, I really don’t.<\/p>\n Why should Obama control what his preacher might have said, ever, on any subject. And if he should? Shouldn’t John McCain It seems only fair.<\/p>\n
\nAnd no, I’m not condoning the prostitot-ization of our world. It actually disturbs me, greatly.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I swear an MS NBC special on this Big Controversy played the same portions of the same speeches (Obama’s race relations and Wright’s apology and then not and … well you get the picture) over and over in a one hour special. Type it in on google and you get a bazillion hits including this from our pal Christopher Hitchens Is Michelle Obama responsible for the Jeremiah Wright fiasco? – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine. <\/a><\/p>\n
\nMcCain\u2019s Pastors: Same Questions, Different Answers – America\u2019s Election HQ<\/a> answer at least the same questions?<\/p>\n