The cult of celebrity.....like I give a rat's tail about who Paris Hilton is going to vote for......we have transformed this country into people who think being "cool" is the driving force for life and existence. They are clueless. As Bob reports about Little Richard, an Icon in American music, or I post about a young British Band, it becomes apparent that we are all guilty to an extent on believing that entertainers somehow have some higher place in our society. I think about the old man who owned the brass foundry I first worked in at 16, and how he build a viable business from scratch. How he reinvested all his money back into the business. How he lived in the same neighborhood as the folks who worked in his factory. How his castings fed into other business where other owners reinvested in their business. They wore these God awful polyester suits and golf clothes.....they were usually overweight and had very little hair.....they all drank too much.....most served their country in WWII, and they were the furthest thing from being hip or cool.....they would never be considered a celebrity....nope....they simply made America......now we have the vulture capitalist who rape our country, and Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Brittney Spears giving opinions on public policy.....yep the Oligarchy who is stealing America is smiling like a cat who just ate a mouse.....celebrity.....piss on celebrity.