How disconnected am I from pop culture?  Last night I watched part of the Tonight Show for the first time in years.  First guest – Michael Douglas.  At one point, he complained that his six year old daughter, who attends dance class, was provocatively swinging her hips and really shaking it.  His gripe – he didn’t figure this would happen for at least another ten years.  Here’s a clue for you, Michael – don’t send her to a dance class that will teach her to do that.  And by the way, there’s no good reason a sixteen year old needs to do that, either.

The next guest was some strange chick who passed around nude photos of herself.  She complained that she’d been previously scheduled for the show, but had been bumped by Barack Obama, that attention whore!  She noted that his appearance on the show was more or less pointless – after all, He Won!   She’s evidently famous enough to have a magazine spread, a book published, and an appearance on the Tonight show, but I don’t even know who that woman was.  And I don’t feel deprived.

It’s just amazing how much of this stuff I used to take in, and take for granted.

“When our presiding bishop implies she’s more concerned about hunger, primary education, and AIDS and issues like that, then it’s clear that she doesn’t have her mind on the primary objectives the church ought to be following — which are the presentation of the gospel,” says the author. “And that’s what makes the church look like the Peace Corps in ecclesiastical drag.”

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