A Few Quick Hits

After a long absence I'm back. Things have been pretty busy lately, but here's a few short thoughts.

* Watching this Sarah Palin-David Letterman thing unfold, I have to say that there's little doubt in my mind that the joke was directed at the 14-year old daughter. But here's a few things/questions:

1. The joke was in poor taste and not funny at all.
2. The joke was a obvious sexist one, but the outcry is not quite as much as it would have been if Palin were an liberal woman, and Letterman a conservative.
3. If the 14-year old daughter of Palin is now fair game, does that mean that the Obama daughters are also in play for such wisecracks? It would be interesting to get Mrs. Obama's opinion on this whole ordeal.
4. Should Letterman be fired? That should be up to CBS, not any kind of government legislation.
5. How come nobody has talked about how this might piss Alex Rodriguez off? I personally wouldn't take a joke about me committing statutory rape very lightly.

* When Christians as a whole become more Christ-like in their actions and not so judgemental and hypocritical, other people's opinion of them will certainly rise.

* Supporters of democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Barnes should ask themselves this question: Why do they support a candidate who has already proven he can polarize a state and lose an election as an incumbent with a huge money advantage?

* The video on the news of the cop pulling over the ambulance and putting the EMT in a chokehold because he didn't yield at a yield sign (despite having a patient in the back) shows that unfortunately, there are some law enforcement officers who feel they are above the law. I see this a great deal in Milledgeville.

* While I would say I generally watch Fox News more frequently than other news networks, I will say the new Fox Nation commercial they've got is WAY over the top.

* The radical who shot the abortion doctor in Kansas has succeeded in giving the media the opportunity to paint the entire pro-life movement as a fringe one. I watched a PBS documentary the other night, with two colleagues of Dr. Tiller basically saying the "anti-abortion" people are domestic terrorists. This deranged man obviously was - the peaceful protesters are not. It's sad that a disagreement could lead to a murder. Maybe one day people will accept that abortion is not a black and white, clear-cut issue. There are way more gray areas involved, and regardless of whether you agree with it or not, sometimes there are extraordinary circumstances. But people need to be able to make their own choices, which is why I am pro-choice. But let me remind you that not all people opposed to abortion or abortion rights are going to go kill abortion doctors. Honest disagreements and civil discourse is part of America.