This is a list, in no particular order, of things I found hilarious or interesting today. Please enjoy my musings. Number one is Wednesday's episode of Dateline that featured an inspired Kirk Cameron (a.k.a. Mike Seaver) arguing in circular fashion that God exists in a circus-like forum. At least you can be sure that Dateline doesn't pull any punches in drafting the intellectual elite (or a television character with a friend named Boner) to advocate a given position at these sideshows.
On a more serious note, it's good to see Taalam Acey advocating for positive change in hip hop. The poet writes to Oprah Winfrey (who may be less knowledgeable about hip hop than Jamie Kennedy, or even less knowledgeable about hip hop then Kirk Cameron is about theology) and makes a case for the positive roots of hip hop that you never see in VH1 Behind the Music Specials. Acey advocated this position years before idiots like Don Imus used rap music to justify his racism. It's time to listen to somebody who knows what they're talking about in terms of hip hop history (and to start ignoring Harpo Winfrey if at all possible).
Finally, if Oprah wants an easy way to pay penance for her crimes against humanity, she could try spending 45 minutes in a vat of fish feces like the four workers who got an opportunity to float in the funk in Massachusetts earlier this week. Unlike Kirk Cameron, I don't know if there is a hell or what it is like, but I bet 45 minutes floating in fish poop is as close as it gets here on Earth outside of sit-com stars taking on advocacy roles.
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