High School Never Ends

Bowling for Soup has a song out on the radio right now named "High School Never Ends." When I first heard this song, I took it with a large block of salt.

Yesterday was election day for most of the United States...a turning point in the power from Republican to Democrat. The day has as much significance to public policy as the day we invaded Iraq to discover the weapons of mass destruction buried all over the Iraq landscape. During this extremely important day, the breaking news was Britney Spears filing for divorce from Kevin Federline.

At what point did ANYONE care about Britney Spears' marriage? Did I just not get the memo? Are we so nosey that we need to be in the middle of EVERY "famous" persons life every minute of the day? Has everyone forgotten what type of people actually acquire this news?

They are called paparazzi. Paparazzi is a plural term (paparazzo being the singular form[1][2]) for photographers who take candid photographs of celebrities, usually by relentlessly shadowing them in their public and private activities. Celebrities claiming to have been hounded by such photographers often use "paparazzi" as a pejorative term[3] while news agencies commonly use the word in a broader sense to describe all photographers who take pictures of people of note.[4] (cite Wikipedia).

Have we as a society forgotten the circumstances behind the death of Princess Diana? Do we not care about another person's privacy so much that we need to PAY someone to photograph and hound them?

This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). As my Mother said, mind your own business. Don't get me wrong, if people need help, by all means step forward and do your best to help. But when the world has a fit about the divorce or Jennifer and Brad or the marriage of Tom and Katie, we as a public have overstepped our boundaries.

Ask yourself if you really want to have ten people following you all over the place taking pictures of you and your family going into the doctors office or school. Do you want them to talk to your friends and neighbors or combing through your trash for that one photo of you with your now passed grandmother? I know I wouldn't put up with it. Those celebrities that DO lash out are persecuted as being violent for protecting their family from the harassment.

Of course, having some paparazzi follow me into the bathroom could be fun...especially if I had a bag of corn and baked beans.

Did you know...

A recorded version, "Candle in the Wind 1997", then became the fastest selling single of all time, eventually going on to sell over 30 million copies worldwide, with the proceeds of approximately £55 million going to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund

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