Janet Jackson, Outrage
As the “bra”haha of Janet Jackson’s bare breast at the Superbowl growls down to a low boil, I’m going to take the time to here suggest that this little incident is not worth the tittles nor the jots being spent on it.
Janet Jackson’s breast is not an outrage. In fact, it’s quite nice.
The exploding federal deficit, however, is an outrage.
Cutting taxes in the face of it is an outrage.
Over 500 dead since “peace” was declared in Iraq is an outrage.
Over 2 million American workers laid off is an outrage.
Going to war against another nation because of “planned program activities” is an outrage.
Coddling a non-democratically-elected government that made a hero of its top scientist because he stole nuclear secrets from the West and sold them to Iran, Libya and North Korea is an outrage.
Giving a multi-billion dollar no-bid contract to the company the vice-president used to run is an outrage.
Shifting the tax burden from the very wealthy, who can most afford to pay it, to the working and middle classes, who can least afford to pay it, is an outrage.
Giving away billions of tax dollars to an out-of-control medical market and calling it “reform” is an outrage.
Declaring “enemy combatants” in order to lexically circumvent the normative laws of war is an outrage.
Pulling out of the Kyoto environmental talks is an outrage.
Ignoring treaties on ABM technology is an outrage.
Billions of dollars in unpaid dues to the UN–the organization now expected to clean up our mess in Iraq–is an outrage.
Economic advisors who say shipping jobs overseas is good are an outrage.
Drastic security acts that ignore civil rights are an outrage.
A justice department that goes after a $40,000 stock trading indiscretion on the part of a celebrity and all but ignores the fraud of Enron, Global Crossing and World Com is an outrage.
No, Miss Jackson may be nasty, but, as exciting as it was to look at, her stunt was more sad and desperate than it was outrageous. Isn’t it about time that we got upset over things that really matter?