Mary Kate Olsen Refuses to Smile for the Paparazzi

So you've seen it scream on AOL, Yahoo, and most other pre-masticated, re-masticated news outlets:

"Mary Kate Olsen Refuses To Smile For the Paparazzi".

Perhaps you to clicked through to a few waifish half smiles, and a gothic glare, or might have been too distracted by Britney's latest mama drama. Since the press seems to think this is critical news to be spread anywhere and everywhere, I thought an analysis of it was appropriate. Initially that analysis was short and sweet, yet right on target:

Who gives a damn?

Though it seemed apt, its not very fair to have you click through to four little words and leave you hanging. While reviewing my analysis about how the world feels like its going up in flames, if you bother to try to diversify your new sources, but media sources want to dip us in oily water, I realized I was wrong.

As I thought about how instead of caring about Lil' Miss Olsen's pearly whites, we should care that the Patriot Act strips us of fundamental rights, or that innocent civilians are being murdered in the name of US citizenry. We should care that 79,000 foreclosure actions were filed in the state of Ohio alone last year, and much more all over the United States. The oceans are rising, warm animals are heading north in "cold season", and oil and climate change are instigators for violence all over the world.

I can understand since it does feel like the world is on fire to want to slip into some nice cool nonsense for the brain. Its okay to want to relax and retreat for a bit to give ones mind body and soul some time to just be, without being bombarded. But Mary Kate's faux smile?

Youtube and Netflix can help with the need to veg out. Even stepping out onto your porch/yard/balcony and doing NOTHING but breathing in fresh air will do the trick. But what is relaxing or entertaining about a girl who won't smile for the cameras, and a handful of pictures. Not only is it boring, but the media is asking you to waste your time on some disgruntled paparazzi's grudge.