Two things I saw on TV that made me feel a little ill at ease....

[WCGreen]

First was the way the people at the super dome reacted when the National Anthem was played.

Let me come clean, I think that playing the national anthem at all sporting events is a little jingoistic to me, especially if the only time the anthem is played is at sporting events.

Tonight it felt a little over the top, the response by the crowd, the way the people on the field reacted.

I may be off base but it just felt threatening.

Maybe because it was in New Orleans, a place that the government at the time of Katrina, basically said you're on your own, and still...

Again, it felt a little dangerous to me.

Then there was the Victoria Secret commercial where they were flaunting a size for all and all they showed was waif like women who ran the gamete from size 0 to size 1.

Granted it is Victoria Secret, but still...

I may be paranoid, but it seemed like I was living back in the Bush Administration when people displayed a love of country that was a mile wide and an inch deep and that women should be objectified.