Madonna and No-Child

Madonna will not be allowed to adopt a second child from Malawi, a 4-year-old girl named Mercy James, the African country's High Court ruled on Friday. The ruling will please campaigners who say authorities have given the singer special treatment. Malawi's government, which came under fire after Madonna adopted a 13-month-old Malawian boy, had said on Thursday it would support a second adoption. Court registrar Ken Manda told reporters Madonna's bid to adopt Mercy had been rejected because the star was not a resident of Malawi.

An AIDS epidemic in the impoverished southern African country has orphaned more than one million children. In her ruling, Judge Esimie Chombo warned against celebrity adoptions, saying they could lead to child trafficking. "Anyone could come to Malawi and quickly arrange for an adoption that might have grave consequences on the very children that the law seeks to protect," she said.

Prominent rights activist Mavuto Bamusi defined said the decision was a "defining moment for child protection" but urged the pop star to continue her charity work. "We finally appeal to Madonna to take this positively and continue to help the children of this country," he told Reuters.

ISF: Uh huh. Ask the kid about her "defining moment" twenty years from now when she has a starving kid hanging off each tit and eating what resembles shit from a clay bowl.

"We finally appeal to Madonna to take this positively and continue to help the children of this country." We hate you, but please keep sending money!

Madonna Gets Inducted Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

After the announcement was made for this year's inductees, all I heard were people on the radio (and out and about) bitching that Madonna had been inducted. It pissed me off. Look at her contributions to music over the past 20+ years...and it hasn't stopped yet.

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is more of a "music" hall of fame, if anything. Technically, does Rock and Roll still exist? Or has it evolved into just Rock? This ain't "Great Balls of Fire" anymore! Nobody made a big deal when a contemporary, Prince, was inducted. Or how about Michael Jackson? Isn't he the "King of Pop?" How about Jackson Browne? Isn't he like soft rock or easy listening or something? The Bee Gees? Disco. Bob Marley? Reggae. REM (I wouldn't consider them Rock and Roll)? Alternative. Righteous Brothers? And the list goes on and on...

Maybe the thing to do is to rename the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to the Music Hall of Fame and bring it into modern day. With so much emphasis on diversity today, isn't the thing to do to be inclusive?