I am beginning to think that responsibility, self-respect, postponement of gratification, etc, are evolutionary blips that are gradually being discarded by the human species, which finds them ponderous, difficult, and obstructive of the biological prime directive of contemporary American adults to flop in the trough and party down.
" ... the biological prime directive of contemporary American adults to flop in the trough and party down."
... Which virtually assures that, in contrast to the large-familied home-schooling types, they're well on their way to partying their particular subset of the genotype into extinction.
Hey, Al Kimel allowed his cat to kill poor innocent chipmunks. And you are concerned about some wives letting off some steam??
Good one, Convergent.
Well, it won't be embarassment they die from. Their husbands, maybe.
They'll die from their husbands, or their husbands will die from embarrassment, or both?
So that's what you are supposed to call "making complete exhibitionist asses of yourself in public"--"blowing off a little steam."
OK.
Once they see themselves on video tape, they will probably discontinue their "steaming". If they are any good, we will soon see them on Leno.
And if they are good and also Catholic, I am sure their Sunday contributions will greatly increase.
Then there are still those poor little chipmunks!!!!
Poor Alvin!
In Christian and biblical thought sacrifice and meal-event are closely allied -- the Passover meal. Augustine defined sacrifice as that which unites us to God in a holy community.
So then, are you saying that what Al Kimel's cat did to those chipmunks was both a sacrifice AND a meal-event?
They may suffer transfinalization at the hands of their husbands.
I wonder how that works out in Heaven? i.e. spirit cats chasing and eatig spirit "munks"?
Heaven is segregated based on what some of my friends tell me. Catholics on the highest clouds with "wantabe but don't know it" Catholics on the lower clouds with cats, "munks" et al in their separate zoos. Finally, I worked out a solution to this Heavenly problem of getting along with each other. A first "dogged-ma" has been articulated 
About the "moms on tour":
My generation fought censorship and tyranny against our musical expressions--and now the airwaves are filled with filth and near nudity....what did we fight for....most of these moms are also from that generation of Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and glam-rock....I'd like to see more news on the Christian bands that are making headway on secular stations and making it "cool" to talk about God!
Sorry--VERY opinionated -- Sam I am!
JoBeth,
Clearly, you are confused. My generation, which may or may not be yours, certainly did fight for "artistic license", "freedom of expression", and neat-sounding stuff like that. However, any teenage boy will tell you that such terms are internationally accepted code for "filth and near nudity", although he would probably quibble with "near". So we won. Savor the victory!
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