Music To My Ear

 

Admired: The Dixie Chicks, who continue to avail themselves of their constitutional right to dissent through their music despite the heavy financial cost to themselves. Redneck country stations continue to pillory them by not allowing their voice to be heard. I mean, how American is it to take away someone’s livelihood by not playing their music just because you or the few listeners who take time out to complain don’t agree with them? The Dixie Chicks are making their own kind of music, which is music to my one good ear.

 

More Dumb-Assity: Kenyan First Lady Lucy Kibaki told high school students last week not to use condoms, urging them to practice abstinence as protection against HIV and AIDS. Speaking to female students in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, on May 18 Kibaki said, "Those who are still in school have no business having access to condoms. Those who are in university and are not married have no business having condoms in their halls of residence." According to the Agence France-Presse reports quoted in this BBC story, AIDS or HIV-related illness has taken the lives of 1.5 million Kenyans since 1984. Sound familiar? When will so called moralists realize that our children will do what they will do, and educating them on how to prevent pregnancy and disease will help us sociologically, economically, and build stronger families, not tear them down?

Whatever: Representative William Jefferson (D-LA), an eight-term lawmaker representing a New Orleans district, is subject of a criminal probe into allegations that he accepted bribes in return for using his office to facilitate business ventures in Africa. After an FBI raid on his Congressional offices, Jefferson is using constitutional arguments, filing a motion in U.S. District Court on Wednesday seeking return of property taken from his office in the raid and that law enforcement authorities be prevented from reviewing any of the materials. Too bad he still doesn’t have the $90,000 cash agents found in his home refrigerator last year. He’ll need it, me thinks, to pay his lawyer to keep his allegedly corrupt ass out of jail.

Yeah?: Surprise. Bill and Hillary Clinton aren’t spending much “quality time” together leading two lives in NY and DC, respectively, averaging only 14 nights per month together. Imagine. Do we really need to know and do I care?

 

So?: The arrival of the Brangelina progeny is imminent. Regional Namibian chief to name baby.

 

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
~ Robert A. Heinlein

Published on: May 25, 2006