Relativism: So What? (Part Five: I kissed a girl)

How does it stand in light of the biblical message/worldview?

"Because it serves to direct young viewers and listeners, 'I Kissed a Girl' is more than a song kids will listen to. It actually serves as a map to life, guiding impressionable kids into accepting and practicing the values, attitudes, and behaviors that are depicted and promoted in the song. This includes a postmodern ethical relativism, and homosexuality."

"We suggest that after securing parental permission, youth workers view the video and deconstruct its message with their middle school and high school students. The exercise will not only offer opportunities to bring the light of God's Word to bear on the song's faulty messages, but will serve to teach kids how to think Biblically and Christianly about their media choices."

Lively, lonely metropolis

All right, Londoners, does this have anything to do with your actual experience?

London Drama That Inspires A National Dialogue

Instead it was the characters' angular, embattled postures, every one of which spoke of discomfort, frustration, guarded hope, and defensiveness, as these people tried (and usually failed) to talk to one another in any meaningful way. Theirs was a physical attitude I had been encountering since I arrived in London — on the streets, on the underground, in lobbies — without being aware of it. Suddenly, there on the stage was the crystallization of my daily experience in a lively, lonely metropolis.

(I knew a Ben Brantley back when I lived in Manhattan in the late '70s and early '80s - likable fellow - don't know if this is the same guy, but he might well be.)

Year In America July 3 and 10, 2008

Was on vacation, so the Top 40 considerately added only four new tracks in two weeks.

( The Jonas Brothers )

( Sugarland )

( NKOTB )

( DJ Khaled f. Miami phonebook )