Musings on the News.

As you all know the big news of this week is Don Imus and his comments on his radio show about the young ladies on the Rutgers University Women's Basketball Team. Comments that I will not of course repeat here since I do think that they are inaccurate and disgusting.

My opinion on this:

What he said was wrong on so many levels - that he thought that this was okay to say about these particular young women, that it was okay to say about women of color, and that it was okay to say about women period. Should he loose sponsers because of it? YES! Should he loose his show? Probably if I had anything to say about it.

However this whole incident bothers me on a much deeper level. Don Imus is a "shock jock" it is his job to shock and provoke. And though this is not a genre that I listen to or am fond of there are a lot of people who LOVE this type of "entertainment". He thought that this comment would be acceptable and even be found humurous by his audience. And I am afraid that it probably was. There are probably a goodly number of people out there that thought that type of statement was acceptable. THAT is what bothers me. Everyone is getting so wrapped up in shooting the messenger that we are not dealing with the message.

Don Imus will probably be vilified in some very public way and then the matter will die down and be forgotten. But the underlying issue will still be there. And there will still be people out there that think that saying such things about women and especially women of color is okay. To me THAT is the problem and the issue that needs to be addressed.

On another issue.

I read today that some of the leaders of the conservative Christian Leaders are demanding that Richard Cizik be removed from his post as a Christian Advocate to the White House, Supreme cout and the Congress. The reason------ he has been voicing his concerns over climate change, torture and poverty and not advocating enough on THEIR anti-gay marraige and abortion agenda.

My view: First off I need to say that I was at one time an Evangelical Christian (I am no longer). What I was thinking as I read this was what would Jesus think? I studied Theology in college and I can't remember anyplace in the New Testiment (or old for that matter) that mentioned gay marriage or abortion. I do however remember LOTS of passages about carring for the poor, loving and looking out for others.

I think that so many of these people are so wrapped up in thier own agenda's that they have totally missed the message of the person/prophet/Son of God that they say they folllow. Won't they be surprised to learn at some point that HE had a different agenda entirely and that they are NOT doing HIS will at all. Not even close.

Also, I learned something new today.

In the arctic it doesn't snow. What looks like snow is actually frozen bits of sea ice that the wind blows off the sea onto the ice flows. Sort of akin to a dust storm in the Sahara or other desert. The Arctic is really a desert and gets very little real water percipitation.

On a personal career note - I had to e-mail the director of a Student film that I was cast in that I would not be able to do her film after all. Even after I told her at the audtion that I was working at a temp job from 9-6 for the next couple of weeks she went ahead and booked the shoot for an afternoon next week and just "expected" me to take the time off. Unfortunatly, finances just don't allow for that at the moment. Between paying the rent and having a non-speaking role in a student film at this point in time -- paying the rent wins. So wish it could be otherwise but hey!