A few days ago I wrote a journal asking the question, "Is it the responsibility of celebrities to give political and social commentary?"

I got a bunch of awesome well-thought out responses, dang it guys you make it so hard to choose sometimes! Haha

Out of all of them though I decided that I'll give 100 to TWO people, rather than just one, since it was so hard to decide!  So congrats to =belle-of-kilronan and ~mysterymen! You can view their comments here and here.  

There is something to say for the power of celebrity, as a few of you noted with examples. There is good and there is bad, like =tearsofbreakingglass' example of Lady Gaga speaking out against DADT, or ~mysterymen's example of Jenny McCarthy speaking out against vaccinations for children.  

But yes, my position is pretty similar. It definitely is not a dedicated responsibility of celebrities to speak out for or against political and social topics, and I definitely agree that it's imperative for people to think for themselves instead of relying on the opinions of celebrities.


Now, I mentioned I'd be working on an In The News article a few days ago - you know how life is though it's sort of gotten in the way of doing much on deviantART as of late.  So what I'll do instead is put a handful of interesting links in here which might be interesting. Enjoy


-Bill O'Reilly's NSA Hypocrisy
-Snowden claims NSA has been hacking China since 2009
-NSA director claims that data mining is lawful and thwarts terror -- Just for comparison, here is the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

-Dr. Zhicheng Hu has finally been returned home from China.
-Russia has passed a bill that makes it illegal to tell kids that gay people exist
-Another republican has made comments about rape (sigh).
-A police officer reportedly has shot five feral kittens to death in Ohio -- in front of children.

-Another layer of the human eye has been discovered - Dua's Layer
-Astronaut Chris Hadfield is retiring