If someone invited me to a really obscure (to me) part of the world, I think I would get at least a leetle bit if info prior to departure. It was not a short flight!

Ugh. Mostly I don’t care a bit what celebs do, there are an astonishing number of genuinely famous people I’ve never heard of, and they can get into whatever trouble they want to. This one is obviously shallow as hell.

Note to self: JLo (or however that is popularly abbreviated) is shallow. Okay. Done

(And then there is the Washington Post, L.A. Times, and Salon. They expected an apology, something was said, ipso facto, it must have been an apology. Shoddy.)

Double ugh.

SMcC

Jennifer Lopez doesn’t sound like a geopolitical genius, but how many Americans know anything about Turkmenistan, or would know better than to take a million dollars to sing at a party there? It’s not like she got up and shimmied for Stalin — well maybe it is, on a reduced scale. But it seems far less blameworthy to cozy up to a dictator out of ignorance than to aggrandize one of the few foreigners (like Stalin) to crack the US media bubble, where JLo gets more column inches (and whatever the internet equivalent is) than all of Eurasia. Maybe an apology from her is less in order than a shared recognition of how cut off we are from the wider world.