Deep Thoughts With the Stars

Considering how stupid a lot of stars act on a regular basis, I can't believe I haven't thought of this before. I had thought about awarding a Tool for this, but it's more pedestrian than most Tool Award winners. So I'm proud to establish another semi-regular award here at Mod-Blog: Deep Thoughts With the Stars.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Sheryl Crow, she is a popular musician in the somewhat-folksy faux-emo rock scene who was one of the major sponsors of the Lilith Fair. She used to be most famous, outside of music, for her statement that all the "bad" we were doing in Iraq would result in "bad karma" coming back on us. Right. More recently, she has become well known for her engagement to Lance Armstrong. She is also well known as a has-been.

Having heard her newest song on the radio, I was shocked at the depth of her philosophical insight when she sings, "Good is good and bad is bad. But you don't know which you have." Hmmm...Yes. Never mind that this reminded me of a particularly funny moment in Thumb Wars. Let's take this profound statement and consider.

What she's saying is that Good is good. Are you still with me? A bit lost? Well, I'll explain. What she's saying is that good is good. Got it now? Okay. Next she says, bad is bad. Now, I'm not going to take the time to re-explain it again, just read the fifth sentence in this paragraph but insert "bad" where it currently reads "good." Then you'll get it. And finally, you don't know which one you have. Well if good is good, and bad is bad (a truly deep philosophical statement and a very bold statement in our post-modern world,) then there must be something more here. What is it? Only Sheryl knows. But one thing is for sure. Bad is bad, and so is pretty much every song she's released in the past four years. Maybe she should go back to political commentary.