Now... I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that the celebrity population has really been pissing me off lately. Whether it be celebrities abusing their standing or the obsession over the Christian Bale abuse case or the health of Steve Jobs, it is ridiculous and is really pissing me off.

Let's start off with last year. America's former sweetheart and then current example of what not to be (basically a self-obsessed, crazed lunatic who was still in the dark that she wasn't popular anymore) shaved her head, abused her kids, and got them taken away and given to someone who should never have kids either (really showing just how pathetic she was). Britney Spears had taken over the world again.

The tabloid media shoved her story down our throats and then YouTube shoved it up our asses with videos depicting a grown man crying his eye-liner ass off telling us to leave her alone. Besides the fact that he was obviously (and disturbingly) one of the people I am about to rip into, he was right. Leave her alone. She doesn’t matter. At all. She’s nothing in this world other than an attraction. Actually, disregard that last statement. She’s a distraction.

Now, let’s move forward a bit. Later in the year we found out that Britney’s younger sister and then current Nickelodeon star and teen idol got pregnant. Nickelodeon was suddenly screwed because they had been using the obsession over celebrities as a highlight for her show – Zoey 101. She was their big shebang. She’s the sister of Britney Spears. She’s still a teenager. She’ll take over the world just like her older sister did. Let the younger kids idolize her. Let’s make her out to be a good girl that should be a hero to little girls and should be an example of how to lead your life. Great idea, Nickelodeon. Well… until she got pregnant, that is.

Now you have a barely legal teenager (16 years, 8 months at the time it was reported) pregnant. And on top of that the studio was making her out to be an angel of all sorts. Someone people like my sister should be looking up to as an example of how to live. Now you have thousands of little girls finding out their favorite TV show star is pregnant and, if they are like my sister who has sadly been drawn into this demoralized and sad little world, are thinking to themselves, “Hey! Zoey got pregnant! It must not be so bad. It’s probably a good thing. Mommy… I’m going to get pregnant to be like Zoey 101!”

Help me. Shoot me. Do something.

This culture’s unnatural obsession over celebrities is leading us down a very rocky path. It’s getting to the point that people seem to care more about the lives of their favorite celebrity more than their own life, sometimes even their own children. Down the street there is a house that we have had major problems with over the years. This is the third owners of the house and the third time we’ve had problems. This time the parents are neglectful rather than abusive, though. The kids run around (they are 5, 7, and 13 years old. All three of them have A.D.D. and maturity problems) without clothes, destroying mailboxes, hitting things with sticks, telling my sister to pull down her pants or the 13 year old will tell everyone that she was drinking beer (Since I was old enough to be considered an adult, my brother had the pleasure of handing out the beating here), and where are the parents? The dad is a drunk who is hardly around. The mom is always there. She’s always on the porch in a bikini too. Always reading a different tabloid magazine. Her kids are going the right way for a criminal lifestyle and she is sitting there reading about how some celebrity is breaking up with another celebrity who they have never once said they were dating or ever even been seen with.

Bravo.

You see, Hollywood is something that is incredibly wrong with this world. Whatever a celebrity says must be true. Lebron James just endorsed Obama! I know who I’m voting for! Two words: Fuck you. Get your own damned mind. It is ridiculous to think that a celebrity should make all your decisions for you.

“OH MY GOD! Did Shaq just put his name and number on a bottle of Vitamin Water?! I’m gonna drink that day in and day out even though it tastes like shit! Oh. My. God. I’ll be able to play basketball just like Shaq!” (Please note that the last statement is probably true but not due to the beverage. Shaq really isn’t what he used to be.)

Whether you like progressive rock or not, the world would be a better place if they would listen to Ænema by Tool. Or even just read the lyrics. It speaks of how the world would be better off if California just fell into the ocean as some believe it will. Lose that entire society and forget about it. The obsession over that lifestyle is unhealthy and all it does is deter our society from what it should really be concentrating on, namely the election, energy crisis, and coming disaster that is Iran. If people paid more attention to the world around them rather than one super rich and glitzy city, maybe I would actually listen to the majority of people when they complain about they way things are run in this world.

I want to bring up an example from last week. Apple, Inc. announced their third quarter earnings. Earnings that were actually quite good and caused a bump in their stock after the meeting. In after-close trading, they lost about $3 a share due to reports of their current CEO, savior, co-founder, and the god-like figure of many a fan boy being very sick in appearance and later of rumors that his cancer was back. In 2004, he had to hand over his duties to someone else for a few months to recover from a seemingly life saving (and cancer ending) surgery he had to have. Back then, they flat out told everyone he wasn’t doing well and was going to go away for a little bit. This time around all that has happened is he lost some weight and his handshake isn’t as firm as it was in January at Mac World.

The fact is that this is none of our business and shouldn’t even be reported. Someone just cost Apple $3 a share (with roughly 30 million shares in circulation, that is a $90 million loss) just because they felt Jobs didn’t shake their hand very well. That is just stupid. We don’t have to know how well someone shakes a hand. Or whether they lost weight or even gained it. Until he gets so sick (if he is even sick at all. It is all just rumors) that he can no longer run the company and has to take another absence to recover, we don’t need to know.

Here is a question for all who end up reading this far – What is so special about the celebrity life? Why do they get this attention? I obviously don’t think they should. Should they receive it?