OUR NEW CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE
I can't help but recall Mark Twain's pithy wisdom: "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination." It makes special sense when you consider how many Americans are happy about Lingerie Football's big success and Christie Brinkley's white-after-Labor-Day cause c'elebre....!
You can't make this stuff up. Mike Ditka is touting the new ladies football league, and Ms Brinkley is touting the new fashion breakthrough. We are left breathless here at the edge of these two new trails-to-glory. Who said progress has slowed?
In the Lingerie season's first game, the Chicago Bliss beat the Miami Caliente 29-19. The crowd at Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates was predictably mostly male. The players were predictably mostly naked. I speak with authority on this matter, for I recently fell in serious love with Misty May of beach-ball fame where the players also perform mostly naked.
This is not to play male chauvinist, simply to admit evolutionary genes have determined the male of the species incapable of watching mostly naked female athletes with their eyes mainly on the game. Coach Dikta, who has ownership in the new Lingerie League, didn't address this neuro-biological matter directly. He only remarked, "This is a pretty unique opportunity," without defining any of his terms.
As for Ms Brinkley, it has been reported she will boldly wear white even after Labor Day, thereby smashing another old social prohibition. Brinkley's decision reflects a recent survey in which 66% of the women believe the rule about no-white-after-Labor-Day is outdated, and 21% never even heard of it.
Does this make Mike and Christie America's new champions of change....? I thought we had elected someone else for that job.
LOCK AND LOAD, KIDS.......!
In a recent survey, 80% of Americans said they favor a "public option" health insurance plan. In the same poll, only 40% could correctly define what a public option means. God bless the people....!
But while there may be some confusion about healing, there seems to be less about killing. Ammunition makers report they will produce 9.5 billion bullets this year, a 2 billion jump over last year. Lawrence Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation says, "Nobody has seen this kind of demand before."
We are left to decode what this trend means. Are gun-touting American stocking up in expectation of new federal gun restrictions? Are they reading the ancient Nostradamus/Inca stars about cataclysm striking the planet December 21, 2012? Or are we just ready to shoot more animals and people in the name of the 2nd amendment?
I was an educator before the days of campus metal detectors and mass shootings, so I never heard any governors or even NRA officials recommend students pack weapons for self defense. But then maybe I'm missing something. Maybe the idea has caught on, and the ammunition makers are just keeping up with their teenage market.
You gotta love the way the free market works....!
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As a woman, I find the Lingerie League an insult to our intelligence....but what else can you expect? I'm sure it will do famously because what do most men enjoy more than looking at half dressed women! Just another knock to women growing out of their 2nd class citizen status.
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