News Worthy

I've been waking up early lately and watching the news or a morning show of some sort. It's really great to spend an hour or so in the morning sitting, drinking coffee and learning about important world topics such as "Gigabyte Gangsters" and Meredith Vieira's opinions on faith.

First of all - thank you ABC News for giving such a catchy name to the ever troubling issue of identity theft! I believe it was the indie rap group, Cunninglynguists, who pointed out that "America Loves Gangsters." This is clearly further proof of that fact. We apparently need drama in our world so much that we will add the word gangsters to anything to make it interesting! Believe me - now even I am scared.

Next up - The Today Show special for last week was all about faith. They explored many different religions, explaining the beliefs and problems with each. Seems like an interesting subject, no? I mean - American's most definitely need to do them some learnin. But, let me explain to you the day that I watched the longest (before wanting to puke and changing the channel). It was a day all about Judaism (of course I watched the Jewday...come on people do you know me?!). Matt Lauer was sent allllll the way to Israel for this piece so it MUST be special, right? As the camera zoomed out from his face you saw the beautiful view behind him. Really, it WAS breathtaking. I love Matt Lauer! But then...Meredith interrupted to say the following:

"It's so beautiful there. You know Matt...I bet just BEING there would make you believe."

Thank you Meredith. You are truly inspiring.

With that kind of an introduction I just knew this was going to be worth watching. It reminded me of a VH1 "I Love The 80's" special. There were guests making funny comments about Judaism! I am NOT joking. Richard Lewis was a guest! Between these people making smart ass comments about their religion there were a couple of serious Rabbis explaining what it takes to get in to the Jewish version of heaven. And wouldn't you know it...the background music featured such songs as Heaven Must be Missing an Angel as well as The Los Lonely Boys, Heaven (How Far is Heaven...)

A big thanks to the Today Show for really inspiring me, as well as many others I'm sure.