This Just In! Britney Spears is has been hospitalized (again) for psychiatric evaluation! The kicker? $25,000 of your tax dollars were spent by the LAPD to ensure that Ms. Spears got to that hospital safe and sound. Motorcade with motorcycles, patrol cars, and helicopters. The whole nine yards.
Meanwhile…. a little over 12 hours ago, I was standing in a marsh. I had come to this marsh by going through a little slum area in Dhaka City. Garbage was everywhere. The smell of rotting trash filled my lungs with every breath. Some of the residents of this marsh were plucking grass and weeds out of the ground. They were going to grind it up, cook, and eat it for dinner. “Is it tasty?” I asked somewhat curious. “Very much so” the lady explained to me in Bengali. Then again, even if it wasn’t good – she didn’t have a choice. She couldn’t afford to eat anything else.
I am mindful that we can’t constantly refer to Paris Hilton or Britney Spears as a contrast to every problem in the world. It’s a poor argument. I suppose it’s the modern equivalent of Godwin’s law applied to the discussion of poverty. But, it doesn’t make the contrast any less mind boggling.
