New Interview!
Ξ September 13th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Please check out the interview with me for SheStory.tv that went live this week — thanks!
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Blatant Advertising
Ξ September 8th, 2007 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Other Musings |
As I was driving home from work the other day I saw a black Volkswagon Bug tricked out with chrome rims and the words “F*ck You, Pay Me” written in pink script on the rear side windows. Was this a case of Hollyweird or a plausibly deniable advertisement for illicit sexual services? I’m not sure.
If the former, one must chalk it up to the bizarre world of Hollywood, some wannabe trying to be funny but coming across as simply bizarre. If the latter… well, that, too, would be truly Hollywood, marketing oneself in the most blatant of manners. And what sells better than sex?
If prostitution was indeed being promoted, I must admit to admiring the pure brazenness of the car’s owner. Such a completely public flaunting of legality lands the driver in the same league as the bong vendors on the Venice boardwalk and the stoners who dare to smoke pot on the street (the smell of which, incidently, I caught a whiff of on the sidewalk outside of work that very morning). Regardless of my opinion of their activities, I have to respect the absolute attitude, the completely cocky confidence it takes to do such so openly.
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Innocent Victims
Ξ September 8th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ World News |
The L.A. Times reported how several nuns at the Sister of Bethany house in Santa Barbara were informed by the Los Angeles Archdiocese that their convent will be sold to help pay for the Archdiocese’s recent $660-million priest sex abuse settlement.
The number of innocent victims of the sex abuse scandal continue to rise.
Due to the high cost of rent, the three nuns who make up the convent will most likely be forced to move away from the area where they have lived for years serving the people. The youngest of the three is 49; all are still active in the community.
What the priests did was horrible; the cover-up, inexcusable. Unfortunately a few bad apples have sullied the good work that the majority of the clergy do. What’s worse is that the pain caused could have been minimized if a few people in charge had done the right thing in the first place. Who should we as a society be more angry at–the priests or those who let them continue?
It’s a lesson in responsibility that our society as a whole needs to learn. The lack of action taken by Church officials reflects the raging epidemic of abdication of responsibility by parents with their children, by corporate officers with their companies, and by public officials with our government. Considering the overall good done by the Church, its thrashing in the media has been particularly harsh, but perhaps that’s because we expect more of our religious leaders than these other societal elements.
Like most abuse crimes, the number of victims extended far beyond those directly abused. The victims’ families… the perpetrators’ families.. the community at large… and, in this case, three honest nuns, beloved by the community, who pay a steep penalty by way of association.
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