Celebrities and Causes

Let me sing the praises of Ashton Kutscher and Demi Moore-like they need more praise sung by a larger choir. They have beauty, talent, fame, AND each other!

I'm projecting here but if I had a "love" that fine, I'd like to think we'd hardly get out of the bedroom, let alone leave the house to do GOOD WORKS.

The recent brouhaha involving the Village Voice's accusations that the remarkable documentary that this extraordinary couple made for CNN contained flawed data on the actual number of stolen and enslaved women is so non-sensical it begs the question: WHY?

What is the motivation behind this publication's specious accusations that the number of women stolen and sold into sexual slavery was "exaggerated" but further they condemned the motivation and personal intergrity of Ms. Moore and Mr. Kutscher. Add that the debate takes an uglier turn when it turns on most celebrities who use their visibility to fight for right.

That was a run on sentence, wasn't it? Too bad, I'm grammatically unrepentant because the Village Voice ran on with unendingly stupid, mercenary mercantile venom against this couple. After SEEING their documentary about crimes in Nepal against women and children, my respect for these two people has sky-rocketed.

Watch it! It's strong, it's true. It's especially compelling to further the experience with a turn to google. I suggest you look into this same issue RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Sex Traffickers/Pimps can recruit a youngster (male or female) from the Internet and have them in motels and truck stops within days, even hours. (UGH Craig's List-how many more murders before they eliminate the possibility of another "Craig's List Killer" from their site?)

The Village Voice USED to be a fine alternative New York newspaper, it's still available free on most street corners. Used to be fine, now the back pages of it are FILLED with sexual services ads, often with pictures that loom leeringly at you. I've tried "not to look" but fat chance getting that chick's bare fanny out your face as you try to find the good old stuff that hallmarks this historically New York-ian publication.

Maybe the Village Voice has apologized to Mr. Kutscher by now. I'd like to think they would, but then: I REALLY WANT WORLD PEACE.

So IN PRAISE of George Clooney (yeah he's not needing my approval added either) Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and ALL celebrities who devote huge portions of their TIME and MONEY to RAISING AWARENESS, SERVING SOLUTIONS, SAVING LIVES: Thank you!

To whom much is given, much is expected. You have to give it away, to keep it.

HEY, WAIT: AN UN-ASKED FOR OPINION BONUS SHOUT-OUT:
To all the mega-BILLIONAIRES receiving humongo TAX BREAKS? VOLUNTARILY up your TAX rate from the special 15% income tax you now pay to the 35% the rest of us pay. I've read that would SOLVE our appalling National Debt within 10 years. YO-Daddy BIGbucks? dontcha wanna be a real HERO?

FYI: I'm a contentious dreamer: I have a pig, I'm trying to teach to fly:)