Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Pop culture update...

In a follow-up to a story I commented on yesterday, one of the teens in the car with the little girl who appeared (from a YouTube video) to have taken Ecstasy claims the toddler was not given the drug. No word however concerning why, on the video, several in the car were heard saying that the little girl was "rollin'" from having taken the stuff. No word either on why anyone would want to post a video like this in the first place. Maybe we don't talk enough about the dangers faced by the YouTube generation...

In brighter news, take heart Bruce Springsteen fans--the Boss apparently plans to release a new album late this fall. And good news for Miss New Jersey---it appears the blackmail attempted against her isn't going to work. Good for her for standing up to the bad guys. It's another part of the danger of today's 24/7 cable news world, perhaps---blackmailers perhaps believe their job is easier these days, that just the prospect of loud accusations of wrongdoing, having them broadcast and repeated, as surely they always are, for at least 24 hours on a number of different networks, will be enough to intimidate someone, guilty or not, true accusations or not.