At least Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a sense of humor about those satellite dishes on the sides of his face. I make this observation while kicking off today's batch of reader complaints and comments.
Donna Arnold-Dungy insisted that Tony Dungy, her brother-in-law and Colts coach, had nothing to do with her calling to complain about a column item that compared Obama's ears with Dungy's ears.
Donna gave me a sweet, Christian-toned butt-chewing. "I'm sad about the conversation you chose to publish regarding myself and Alon [her son, who volunteered a comment when I was videotaping his mom] about T.D.," Donna said. "Out of all the conversations we had ... I would have written more along the positive impact T.D. is having on the [black] community, the spiritual community. There [are] a lot of things I think I could have focused on ... versus the ears."
ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Writers always gush about Dungy being a lovely role model. I personally thought he was perfect until Donna tried to guilt-trip me with this: "Do you think that when you write something along those lines that could have an impact on, for example, my son's interaction with his uncle?"
If lighthearted quips from Alon could have any impact on Tony Dungy's feelings for his charismatic nephew, that's an unflattering reflection on the coach.
Because ears are not typically dressed in, say, pants, I don't think of them as an intimate body part of which you should never speak.
'It's just ears' Reader "Jamaican Babe" thought the ears item was funny. When told about the complaints, JB said: "Some people get to a point in their lives when they think they are so high and mighty, you should genuflect to them. I don't think this is Tony Dungy, I think this is his family. It's just ears."
Dude looks like a lady A "Christopher Coen" said he knew exactly why I wrote about the obnoxious behavior of RuPaul, who kicked the camera of photographer Hubert Bonnet and, by extension, butted his head when the diva was here for an appearance.