Bubba Clinton Spawns Biebermania

Justin Bieber is a child celebrity and singer currently thrilling pre-teen and younger girls with his impish looks. (To me, he's a leprechaun who bears a striking resemblance to the lead singer of Herman's Hermits, a musical group popular back in the late 1960s.)  Justin showed up seemingly overnight and became a full-blown super star. In a recent Rolling Stone interview he was asked for his opinion of abortion. Yikes...he is 16! Apparently his answer was a tad immature, causing consternation among some people who have no real problems of their own.

Piggy-backing on this insanity, an op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times debated whether Master Bieber had failed to answer the question well enough, considering his place in society as someone wielding influence over young girls.

I place the blame for this nonsense squarely on Bill Clinton's shoulders. Owing to his lapse in judgment so many years ago--oral sex with a White House intern barely out of her teens--serious matters have taken a back seat to tabloid fodder, which has been elevated to the stuff of high-minded editorials. Life in these United States gets sillier every day.