The Prince Vs The Insurgents

It looks like the British Army is still going to deploy Prince Harry to Iraq. I wonder why? What difference will he make in the war? Will he single-handedly change the course of the war? What do you think the insurgents will do when Harry is in Iraq? It doesn't take an expert to figure out that they will go all out to try to get Harry. So deploying the Prince will actually endanger the British troops as they will be subjected to attacks that would not been taking place if the Prince was not there. I understand that the Prince doesn't want any special treatment. But do you think the insurgents will not treat the Prince differently?

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People

I wonder how many people the Virgina Tech gunman would have killed if he did not have a hand gun. When are we going to do something about the easy access to guns (both legally and illegally) and the violent video games that is readily available to our kids?

The Duke Lacrosse Players and The Central Park Jogger

When I learned that all charges have been dropped against the Duke Lacrosse players, the one thing that keep coming up in my mind is the Central Park Jogger case. In the Duke case, three rich white young men were accused of raping a poor black woman. In the Central Park case, five poor black young men were accused of raping and beating a rich white woman. The Central Park five were convicted and sent to jail. But a judge later threw out the convictions after a convicted serial rapist and murderer told New York prison officials that he alone raped the jogger. DNA testing confirmed his story. I wonder if the outcome of either case would still be the same if the race and social standing of the accused and victim were reversed. Would the lacrosse players suffer the same fate as the Central Park five had they been poor black young men and the victim they were accused of raping a rich white woman? Would the Central Park five been wrongfully convicted had they been rich white young man and the victim a poor black woman?

What got Imus fired

Radio shock jock Imus was fired for the remarks he made about the Rutgers Women Basketball Team. Even though he manged to kill two birds with one stone since his remarks were both racist and sexist, he had said things that were a lot worse before. So I wonder why this time is any different than before. Different enough to get him fired. I wonder what actually got him fired, the racist and sexist remarks, or what he said in one of his many apologies, that he will change. People listen to him because of the shocking things that he says. Afterall, he is known as a shock jock. Would anyone listen to a shock jock that's not shocking? Would anyone hire him as a non-shock jock? Apparently not, not CBS Radio at least.

Honey We're Killing the Kids!

Finally a reality TV show that is worth watching. TLC is doing a show based on childhood obesity titled Honey We're Killing the Kids!. As we are making breakthrough in many different areas of medicine, childhood obesity remains a big problem in the US. It is about time someone shine a spotlight on it. One family featured on the show was on a morning TV show this week. Both parents are overweight and are suffering medical conditions due to that themselves. I wonder why it takes a reality TV show for them to do something about their children being obese when they themselves have firsthand knowledge of the negative effects of being overweight. Sadly I know parents who are overweight and are raising obese kids myself. I hope that this would be a wait up call for all of them.

First Gentleman/First Husband/First Spouse

Hillary Clinton has raised an unprecedented $26 million in the first quarter this year for her presidential campaign. I probably don't have to tell you how important money is nowadays in presidential election. So her chances of winning her party's nomination and the presidency looked pretty good. I have always wonder how we would address the spouse of a female president. First Gentleman? First Husband? In this age of political correctness, I am very surprise that the spouse of the president isn't being addressed as First Spouse. I did some digging around and it turns out the the United States Mints has already done so.

But it looks like we may have more time to decide since it was made known yesterday that Barack Obama is almost neck-to-neck with Hillary and had raised $25 million in the first quarter. So Hillary doesn't look like the inevitable nominee that she was looking like the day before yesterday.