oh hello Mr. Clooney

CNN.COM headline from the entertainment section - "Clooney, Nobel winner demand Darfur action." Will someone tell me what is entertaining about that?

I suppose it might be a well placed story considering that PEOPLE magazine readers could probably take a break from the "usual" and get a taste of what’s going on in the world. Perhaps they will realize there are greater tragedies than missing the latest gossip on Brittney and Kevin or even just George Clooney.

My concern is that this is going to turn me off to reading entertainment news. It's where I go to find stories that will not challenge me, and certainly not be a considered a "downer." Whatever you may think of Mr. Clooney or celebrities who are "getting involved" this story seems like real news to me, and should be grouped thusly. This whole thing reeks of a "you got chocolate in my peanut butter" type situation without the delicious results.

In some REAL entertainment news, I see that Ashton Kutcher is in a movie with Kevin Costner called The Guardian. Apparently, one plays a young man who joins the coast guard to fill a void in his life and is taken under the wing of a gritty hardened yet renowned rescue swimmer, and I can’t wait to find out who plays what.

I also want to know which one will be the “port in the storm” and which will be the “line in the sand.” And I can’t help but wonder if and when this movie bombs at the box office if Kevin Costner won’t jump into Ashton’s face suddenly and shout “I punk’d you BEEOTCH!”

In the real world, I’ve recently been getting really tired of comments made by some of my co-workers at the soulless retailer concerning other employees who they think are beneath them. It’s getting to the point where I might choke on the smug, and that pisses me off. Let me let you in on a little secret: Even if you are better than everyone else at S-Mart, you are still only the best at S-Mart and that doesn’t mean shit.