My worldview just seems like a given to me, as though surely everyone on earth is on the same page I am. Yet consistently I am shown no, very few are on the same page with me. In fact not only are they not on the same page, but they may not even be reading from the same book, or in the same library!

For the record, here are the most recent opinions I've had that seem to be at odds with society at large and my coeterie of readers at small:

1.) Mel Gibson's comments in the back of the police car will not affect his movie career. However this latest movie about Mayans in the Mayan language...I smell a flop.

2.) Michael Richards probably wouldn't have said what he said if he hadn't been harassed for 10 minutes straight prior to saying it. The poor man was going out of his mind! Anyone got sales statistics for the Seinfeld Season Seven box set, by the way? Any better or worse-selling than the other seasons? And to one of my anonymous readers, yes, if I heckled Dave Chappelle mercilessly for 10 minutes not only would I expect him to call me cracker, I would expect him to bloody my nose, too.

3.) North Koreans may actually like their country the way it is. Even if I read a book written jointly by Jimmy Carter and Nancy Reagan I might not believe differently. These fantastic tales of James Bond villian dictators are often fabrications, I think. If we believed Kim Jong Il or Fidel Castro's way of governing was as civilized and legitimate as our own it would devalue our perception of our own way of life, sort of like how if gays can marry, too, then it somehow devlaues a traditional marriage. So of course, if they live differently, they have to be mad loons who hang people by their nut sacks in freezers and poke meat thermometers in their bungholes. That's why our way is "better."

I'll try to come up with a more conventional opinion soon.

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