WHEN WILL SENSELESS violence in this country stop? The murder of32 college students at Virginia Tech boggles the mind and senses.America must stop showing so much violence and needless brutalitythrough TV series such as "The Sopranos," "CSI: Miami," "CSI: NY"and "Law & Order," where the shows' creators are vying for ratings;in movies such as "Saw" and "Saw II" with their gory scenes; inreality shows, music videos, the Internet and especially video games-- where kids sit for hours watching and participating in violentscenarios, etc.
These images are DESENSITIZING Americans . . . especially ourkids. Yet, the United States is always meddling in other countries'business, telling them how to live. WE better clean up our ownbackyard.
The Virginia Tech killer, 23-year-old senior Cho Seung-Hui,obviously was nuts, and now it's been revealed that in a 2005 courtorder, Cho was said to be "an imminent danger to others."
There was a time when peace officers who suspected someone ofbeing mentally unbalanced and possibly a threat to himself or othershad the right to take that person into custody and request, before ajudge, that the person be given a mental evaluation. But due to achange in the law, it is almost impossible to detain such a person.
We all have run across overly aggressive panhandlers or streetpeople who make you want to cross the street because of theirerratic behavior . . . but as a citizen, what can you do?
Banning guns and gun laws won't stop a person determined tocreate carnage. You can't police an individual 24/7 . . . and yousurely can't determine if or when that person may wake up and decideto kill.
What's an unarmed and defenseless person supposed to do?
CHAKA KHAN . . . CHAKA KHAN: The Music Experience store and hostDedry Jones presents an evening with Chaka on May 1 at the ChicagoHilton.
"THE APPRENTICE" finalist, Naperville's Nicole D'Ambrosio, willbe the special guest at the Marklund Golf Classic May 8 at IndianLakes Resort in Bloomingdale. . . . Cheryle Jackson, new CEO of theChicago Urban League, will be interviewed by John Callaway on his"Friday Night" program Friday on WTTW-Channel 11.
THE RL COOL SET: Boy, the trendy RL restaurant was just jumpingwith fashionable notables Monday evening, such as top photog VicSkrebneski, Marsha Brenner, Dorothy Fuller, Chuck and Candace Jordan(on their way to a rare-book fair in New York), Ald. Ed Burke andstate Supreme Court Justice Ann Burke, who was chatting with goodbuddy and former Chicago FBI Agent in Charge Kathleen McChesney (nowvice prez of threat assessment and crisis management for Disney),Steve (Gibsons) Lombardo, Ald. Brendan Reilly, Vonita Reescer, Dr.Linda O'Bannon, Bev Blettner, Mamie & Julius Walton, and the newvice chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, BradleyGriffith, with wife and lifestyle diva Tiffani Kim.
Whew! Did I miss anybody? Heck no! I know this is a long "SightSeen" . . . but my head was spinning saying hi to everyone!
LONGTIME comic/actor Shelley Berman, 81, is to be honored byChicago's Great Vest Side Club May 7 at the Crystal Palace Banquetsin Park Ridge. . . . WMAQ-Channel 5 anchor Dick Johnson is set tohost the National Able Network's "Outstanding Worker" awardsluncheon May 15 at the Palmer House Hilton. . . . Award-winningcelebrity chef Rick Bayless speaking at the Executives BreakfastClub of Oak Brook at the Drury Lane Theatre and Convention CenterFriday. . . . Deborah Gray Young of E. Morris Communications isspeaking today at the National Alliance of Market Developersconference at DePaul University.
THE HAPPENINGS: The rock group Chicago with special guest America-- June 30 @ Charter One Pavilion. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.Saturday. . . . Brooks & Dunn with Alan Jackson June 2 at FirstMidwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, with tickets also going onsale at 10 a.m. Saturday. . . . Gwen Stefani with Akon and LadySovereign June 8 at First Midwest Bank.
JOAN RIVERS and daughter Melissa are out as the divas of the RedCarpet shows for the TV Guide Channel. Actress Lisa Rinna is in.
THE BIRTHDAY SET: Politico Mike Madigan, WBBM-Channel 2's MaryAnn Childers, WBEZ radio's Claude Cunningham and belated to MarvinDaniels. Friday: Ryan O'Neal. Saturday: Tony Danza, and anniversarywishes to Thom and Ann Serafin. Sunday: D. Michelle Flowers, TanyaMitchell, Paul Robin and limo driver Jim Nelson. Monday: GeorgeO'Hare, WLS-Channel's 7's Leah Hope, Sue Carey, Flynn David Toomeyand Richard Miller.
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