Ramblings of a Desiccated Mind

So, some young surfer girl, whose arm was bitten off by a shark, is now getting to make the talk show rounds, and is intending to parlay her notoriety into a line of clothes. Apparently, from her show of faith during her ordeal, she's also heard from other young girls who've turned to the lord because of her. Now, although it's not spelled out in the CNN article, I can only assume that she's grateful to her God that He saw fit to keep her alive.

Of course, isn't that the same God who told that shark to bite off her arm?

It's all in the spin, isn't it?

Anyhow, this annoys me because if she weren't some cute little surfer girl, but rather some portly bitch who'd been lying in an inner tube, she'd just be another one for Shark Bait Monthly, and no agents would be circling her and trying to exploit this event so we could get more crappy clothing on the market.

If she were a real hero, and a really dedicated surfer, she'd be out there trying to so what she does with one arm.

But who the hell am I to say what's right or wrong, something about reading that just didn't sit right with me, though.

Seems like a hollow gesture.

On a darker note, an actress who appeared on Six Feet Under is dead at 36 from some medical condition her doctors were unaware of.

That's a shame, and a real tragedy, unlike this confluence of fortunes for the surfer-chick who'll probably never have to work again if she plays this out right.

Damn this country, and its ideals.

Candlelight vigils?

All over the world?

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

This guy is not Mandela, people, or Biko, or any such thing.

At the very best, he's a generous pop-star that doesn't even barely have the courage to leave his bedroom.

Does he give to charity? Yeah. But he also spends far too much money on himself buying ugly crap for a giant mansion that houses one human being, and a petting zoo that has a curious habit of keeping their butts on the ground. He's selfish, people, anyone who makes an effort to purchase Joseph Merrick's bones from the London Hospital just to display them for his own viewing has some very serious issues.

How much leeway are we supposed to give him, even if he is innocent . . . which, by the way, you're fooling yourself if you really believe that.

Even if it comes out that he's innocent, the things he's done even superficially, are wrong.

A forty-something year old man paying you off to "sleep" with your kids is wrong.

If he were that generous, the money would go out without any request on his own behalf, but that is hush-money, let's face it.

It bothers me that he's probably going to get away with this one too.

There is something flawed here, and it's got less to do with M.J. than it has to do with the green that greases the justice system that is, at it's root, not corrupt, but able to be manipulated by those with enough "grease."

And then there's the rest of us to blame for just sitting back and watching it happen.

Apathy . . . what a thing.