According to Fox Sports News, in anticipation of 300,000 revelers in Dallas on Superbowl weekend, gentleman’s clubs in the area are facing a serious shortage of strippers. 

I’m outraged. Didn’t we learn our lesson from watching Johannesburg struggle to import enough prostitutes for the World Cup? That fiasco almost resulted in millions of lost revenue if it weren’t for the quick thinking of entrepreneurial madams across Africa. 

It’s been a tough week for Americans. On Monday I learned that China was beating us in math and science; now we learn that Texas gentlemen are getting shamed by third world pimps. The Lone Star State’s lack of business savvy is giving our country another black eye. 

The club owners should study carefully the response of the Red Cross last summer who, when faced with a blood shortage, took out a full page in the Washington Post begging for critical donations. The recruitment for new donors allowed some doctors to continue with surgeries that might have been postponed if not for the generosity of the public. In other shortfalls, aid organizations like World Vision are working against food shortages throughout the world. One organizer states, “People are still sharing the little food they were able to harvest last season. But this coping mechanism won’t last.” 

Did you hear about the Christian School that fired its coach because his team won a game, 100 to 0? Christian school basketball does not often make it in the New York Times. Covenant Christian School, a private Christian school in Texas, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 victory over Dallas Academy. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition," said the statement, signed by the school’s Headmaster and the School’s Board Chair, Todd Doshier.

Hmmmm. In the same paper, I was shocked to note the outcome of another conflict with a score that is far worse: 1,300 to 13. Imagine a “conflict” in which the deaths are 130 to 1. What would we call that? A massacre? Are we talking about Darfur? The Russian/Chechen conflict? Tiananmen Square in China? No, we are talking about the tragedy of 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead in the most recent version of regime- change military actions. This act includes documented systematic destruction of Palestinian infrastructure, including film of burning chunks of phosphorous from Israeli missiles in a Palestinian school. Every death is a tragedy, but such a crazy disparity points to something different than war.  Did you know that a UN poll recently found that nearly 90% of Palestinians want peace with Israel? That monitors of Palestinian elections (greatly encouraged by the US) found them fair and the outcome untainted?