Hannah Montana and other Moon Sightings from Planck's Constant

Warning: NSFW

Blogger Becky over at Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whatever was only half-right about the Hannah Montana/Vanity Fair pics:

Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whatever, Hannah Montana and the Mooning of America
With the Iraq War dragging on forever, the economy in the tank, record high oil company profits—how do people have the energy to get outraged over an artsy fartsy Vanity Fair portrait of the bare back of a popular tween, or a prom invitation scrawled on the bare butts of some high school lacrosse players?

Becky's right that there are more important things to worry about than teen photos and moonings. However, the Iraq War is not a war, it's an occupation much like the half-century occupation of Germany and Japan where we still have more troops than in Iraq. It's not really a war because we lost more troops during Clinton's peace years than all the time we've been in Iraq. A little perspective please.

As far as the economy being in the tank, please, the rest of the world envies our version of recession where we experienced a positive gross domestic product increase these last two quarters. When other countries have a recession, they have a real recession. Inflation worries? Oh yeah, our core inflation rate is 2% [PDF].

The Mortgage crisis? It's the fault of government interference in our economy, and is a minor concern but we're talking about 1 or 2 million homes going into default out of more than a hundred million. Not really a catastrophe unless you are the idiot bank who gave a loan to people who could not pay it back on a house worth less than the loan and all because of ACORN and the bleeding heart promise of ending discrimination. Notwithstanding all that more people own homes, even after discounting defaults and foreclosures, than ever in our history so pardon me while I don't cry over our "recession."

As for record high oil company profits, the millions of people whose pensions are invested in these oil companies will now do well in their retirement thank you very much, or shouldn't we be concerned with retirees? High fuel prices? This is what Americans want. We buy SUV's, we don't cut back on traveling, we want everything delivered to our door, we don't want nuclear power plants, we don't demand fuel efficient cars from Detroit, we don't want oil drilling in America. We got what we asked for.

Otherwise I agree with Becky, let kids be kids.

Notes

(Hannah Montana/Vanity Fair pics):

Telegraph UK, Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus apologises for Vanity Fair shoot
Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old star of Disney's billion-dollar Hannah Montana franchise, has apologised to her young fans for a photoshoot in which she appears partially clothed.
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Cyrus appears apparently topless with a satin sheet draped around her in the photographs, which will appear in the June issue of Vanity Fair.

But they have provoked parental outrage and also speculation about potential damage to the wholesome family image of the lucrative Disney franchise.

Cyrus, who is on course to be worth a billion dollars by the time she turns 18, said: "I took part in a photoshoot that was supposed to be 'artistic'. Now, seeing the photographs, I feel so embarrassed.