On Lamar Odom

So I'm sitting at Midas this morning, waiting for the nice folks there to finish the oil change on my car, when a local morning news show cuts to its entertainment reporter, and the first question she is asked is about the condition of Lamar Odom.

Now I don't want to imply that any life is more worthy than another, but it dawned on me that in the days since Mr. Odom's trauma somewhere a mother or father simply going back and forth to work was killed by an idiot driving drunk, that somewhere else a child was shot to death because some fool left a loaded gun where another toddler could get to it, and none of it registered more than a blip for a day on local news stations.  Meanwhile, because a man could shoot a ball through a hoop--a feat for which he was paid millions--we have been inundated in print, radio, television, and the internet with stories about the condition of Mr. Odom after he put himself in a coma by snorting cocaine while taking erectile dysfunction drugs in a whorehouse.  Has it occurred to anyone that Mr. Odom was using illegal drugs, that his use supports drug cartels, and that he was a participant in an act that objectifies, demeans, and exploits women?  Why on earth is such a man worthy of such an outpouring of concern in the media?

Sometimes, this country is just a little too fucked up.

Peace,
emaycee