Real Life Pirates?!

I was reading an article in Time today, and it was about the rescue of Richard Phillips, the American ship captain held hostage since by a bunch of Somali PIRATES. I just think it is very interesting that we still have piracy going on in our world. When I was little, I always thought it would be SO cool to be a pirate or even get captured. The movies all made it sound so adventurous, but in real life they are a huge problem around Europe! This just blows my mind that there are people on ships stealing and kidnapping like a childhood movie fantasy. I feel bad and worried for those people who actually stand a risk of being taken or stolen or even killed by pirates, and I truly hope that the countries fighting the war to stop them will come out on top.

GAY IDOL?

In the Mother Jones article I read today, they were talking about a contestant on American Idol, Adam Lambert. The big controversy over him is that he is gay, and the article noted that if he came out on idol he would probably lose a lot of votes... If you ask me, that shouldn't matter if he is a good singer. When a song comes on the radio you don't think "hmm. if this person is gay I don't wanna hear him sing." If a song is good or a singer is good then that's it. I'm not a big fan of some groups or things that some singers do, but if I like a song then I like it. Music is made to make people feel good!!