Yes, we're all dirty

As a follow-up to my last post, I have to poach some material from my good friend Jeff (thanks JF! I know I didn't exactly ask for editorial rights here, but I'm giving a voice to a non-blogger ...)

"Watching television will make you crazy and begin to convince you that God should seriously consider pulling the plug on humanity. When the death on Anna Nicole is afforded 24-hour coverage, we need to ask ourselves why we will never hear about people doing good and making a difference, yet there is time for the shocking clarity that she MIGHT have been doing drugs!!! Who saw that coming?

I have been really tiffed lately with society and the role of status. What does that mean, status? We have all fallen so short of being perfect. Yet we have introduced status into our society to qualify our failures as less than those of others around us. If you see a dozen coal dust covered miners walking out of a mine do you find yourself asking which of the is the least dirty? They are all dirty, as are we. If the World could accept that and choose to see each other as true equals where could we go, what could we achieve?"