It Makes Me Wonder

From the Files of Winston Smith

All last week we were treated to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3201 in the loony bin? Lindsay Lohan in rehab? Paris Hilton posting a negative score on an IQ test? Naw, none of that. This latest scandal is serious stuff, and could result in the deaths of who knows how many young girls.

“Please, Winston! Just tell what it is!” Okay, but you’d better prepare yourself for real shocker: http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3174 didn’t wear a seat belt in a scene of her “Hannah Montana” movie. And to make a bad situation worse, neither did her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus (that “Achy Breaky Heart” guy).

Yes, my friends, Miley Cyrus has an ironclad obligation to use her stratospheric status to influence teenaged girls toward good habits and safe, healthy decisions: don’t smoke, cuss, or chew, and stay away from boys that do; eat your vegetables; study hard; buckle up, dammit. Good advice all, I assure you. A teenaged girl should always be mindful of her safety and think about the future consequences of her present actions. And teen pop stars should do their very best to encourage girls in clean living. Which makes me wonder why we haven’t heard much of an outcry against Hillary Duff’s upcoming movie about a pretty, wholesome white girl who strikes up a http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2865 record.Which is more dangerous – not wearing a seatbelt, or allowing your European American daughter to date a convicted black criminal?

2008-02-20