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Janet Jackson’s breast, gay marriage, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson–how easily the American public is distracted by the media from the important issues facing this country. Drugs and people of many nationalities are still pouring across our southern border, members of our armed forces die daily in Iraq, corporations are still taking advantage of the pool of cheap labor in the Third World, millions of Africans are dying of AIDS. But celebrities and their lives, that’s what’s important really.