Somalis Gone Wild...

I enjoy watching late night television. There is something therapeutic in the glow of late night TV. I could do without the "Girls Gone Wild" television commercials, which purportedly offer low-grade video of college girls on Spring Break exposing themselves in a drunken frenzy (all for the low, low price of $19.95 + shipping and handling). There is something unseemly about the advertisements for "Girls Gone Wild", and I shudder to think about just what type of desperate person would actually buy this crud. "Girls Gone Wild" is the worst of the worst in terms of the soap scum our society produces and throws out to the masses as something to be consumed. To be quite honest, "Girls Gone Wild" gives me the creeps. It brings nothing to the table other than to turn women into sex objects for the highest bidder.

I had a similar feeling of revulsion when I read the following blog post on powerlineblog.com: Click Here. Powerlineblog.com has been following the sad story of Muslim Somali cab drivers in Minneapolis refusing to transport any passengers from the airport who are carrying liquor. The reason for this "boycott" is because the Somalis state that transporting alcohol violates the Islamic law of sharia. Powerlineblog.com does a superb job of debunking the "sharia" claims, and correctly points out that this is just another power play by extremist Muslim groups in the United States (what the Prussian military strategist Clausewitz would label as war by other means).

I view the controversy in Minneapolis the same way I view "Girls Gone Wild": two examples of a broken society in the United States that offers nothing to the common good beyond selfish narcissism and mindless pandering.