Appearances

I want to know why a person seems to need the "it" fashions. Gucci glasses, Louie Vitane bags, three hunred dollar high heel shoes, why does the name brand be the standard of fashion? Why is the three inch label worth $500, when for the same amount I can get nearly an entire wardrobe off the discount rack at the back of the store. I think that way to many Americans are concerned with how things look from the outside, the appearances, that they cannot see the gross economic and social diaparities in our country. One pair of Gucci glasses can equal two weeks to a month's pay for the working poor. If we spent more time trying to help each other rather than play a game of one upsmanship, may be we wouldn't be in such a mess.

Gunsmoke, the western that drives me crazy

I like to watch the old television show Gunsmoke. Not only was it the longest running television program of all time, and James Arness has the distinction of playing the longest running character in television history, it is a wonderful way to kill an hour if you need to. The only thing that bothers me about the program is that every single bullet that strikes one of the main characters hits them in either the leg or the shoulder. I recently watched six episodes in a row and the Deputy, Festus Haggan, was shot in the shoulder in three of the episodes! If this wasn't bad enough in two of the episodes the bad guy was captured after being shot in, are you ready for this, THE SHOULDER! If Gunsmoke was to be believed, no one in the Old West could hit the broadside of a barn when they were aiming to kill someone. They even shot Miss Kitty, the town saloon owner and brothel madame, AND THE ENTIRE TOWN RODE OUT AFTER THE BAD GUYS! I highly doubt that if a saloon and brothel madame was really shot in the Old West if anyone would really care that much. If she lived, fine, if she died they would simply fight over her property and women in her whore house would strip the place clean and move on.
I love the show dearly, but it drives sometimes the inaccuracy between the plots and the historical period drive me insane!