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No single show can deem itself to be the information pinnacle -- and certainly not one with a journalist who appears, like our old friend Geraldo -- to be a lightweight journalist. Stossel may have valid past credentials that permitted him to get this job, but he always looks like if you disagree with him you are an idiot. But he never brings enough evidence about anything to make it provocative or true. It's as if he is the parent telling a child to behave because I say so. I do not choose to behave nor do I choose to believe someone who just wants to be right, without being real, or valid.

I stopped watching this show when Stossel's predecessors were gone. When they were around, he was mere frosting on the cake, now it seems he's been made with fake ingredients.

And by the way, lite things have had a way lately of being proved very bad for us -- like saccharine, margerine, and bad, uninformed journalism that offers no more than useless personal agenda.

First of all, John Stossel is a boring, pompous, know nothing.

Second, when Elizabeth Vargas saw the horrific suffering of the Silver Springs monkeys, all she could do was to view them in disgust. She could have been empathetic; however, she was not capable of empathy.

So... [profane] 'em both. I love 'news' programs, but I'll never watch 20/20 as long as it employs them.

go hug a jihadist suicide bomber. If you had actually watched most of Stossel's work, you'd see that he can't be so neatly categorized in your narrow-minded concepts of "right" and "left."

Thank you for a sensitive and insightful portrayal of how ‘Illicit’ would here fly in the face of the law. Humanity’s couched in sexuality by nature.

You present a paradox to moot – the nurse who trades in her vocation for that of a ‘harlot’; and the sex worker whose essentially unfulfilled aspiration is to trade places with the former.

Even as one of the girls torments herself on whether or not to tread the ‘trek,’ as last resort to survival, she’s already under patronage of someone stuck fast on that path. Yet, the latter took on the youngster even as she herself sat on the brink of eviction; not just from motel but from the ‘profession’ itself. There, ostensibly, was a pimp in the making. Yet she was female, and how a female portrays a madame will likely be as discernable as a black ant walking on charcoal on a moonless night.

Inject into the above a dose of fear, whipped by drugs and pimped by lure of million dollar mansions, and we see teary eyed Barbie, nibbling on a carrot of a quote dangling the nation to ‘cast that first stone’.

In a program entitled ‘women speak’ men were also heard, albeit profiled visually: pimp; filthy rich; fallen statesman, and a dab of the visionary; all in time for Easter. It’s intriguing all this happens within USA, a nation priding itself in having spent, at conservative estimate, trillions bombarding fellow human beings, but which cannot address the need of its own women to be, beyond safe and secure, respected.

Physical birth is but a first step, and it’s a marginal span onto the intellect’s flowering. But the nourishing of talent takes longer. And it takes both intellect as well as talent to step away from something that hardly takes any time to shape up within us: the personal ego. When intellect and talent are put in concert to subdue that ego, mind can be said to have begun; to have taken shape.

The seat of mind – heart - knows empathy. Yet, we are by far content to stay put in canoes of individualism, blissfully oblivious that our cultured mind paddles within a greater mindset of communal prejudice.

The mindful will know though that we eat to live; not live to eat. For, the latter’s binging. The mindful will know also that we live to pray; not pray to live, as this latter’s a plea for being spared. The mindful cannot even be, unless holistically integrated. You fringed on that in some of what you portrayed but stopped short of determined conclusions.

Amidst many in America, obesity is an ailment; it stems from innocence, yet has reached plague proportions. Those who’ve surmounted this bit of a blind spot have become fit, but the only fiddle they seem happy to then play is the field.

The mindful will know that sexuality too has parameters within which to function healthily. Sex is a physical appetite, not unlike food or drink. It has a nourishing aspect to itself, just as much as a wasteful one.

We learn since childhood that nourishment strengthens, while waste harms; unless ecologically degradable. Sex issues forth what can be a flowering of physical health, psychological well being and spiritual happiness. Yet, it can just as much result in issues of health; not least mental degradation.

Within home, cloister and school, we learn etiquette in the partaking of nourishment. We are also taught to respect the disposal of waste; lest it breed disease.

Yet we have left out the teaching and training of sexual etiquette and the need for its being couched in ethic. That nourishment of soul is direly lacking within our curricula. What your program portrayed then is a symptom of North America’s emaciated spirit. It is desperately ill. It has afflicted not only those who’re visibly on the street, but also our very leaders.

Holistic Education then is perhaps where it all comes to roost. By education I do not mean memorizing for exams. Nor do I mean knowing about umpteen different subjects, but nurturing the ability to apply such knowledge with wisdom so as to overcome what plagues daily life.

Wisdom lies in applying knowledge toward that which prevails constructively. It does not preclude choice in protecting the good, while weeding out evil. Once this aspect is included in defining Education, it means also considering the enhancement of the intuitive and inspirational nature of spirit; both personal as well as collective. Where, if at all, is the confluence between our sciences and the comprehension of our essence?

The all-inclusive or holistic training of the human mind toward this is what defines Education. That’s both set out in the defining articles of the American Constitution, as established by its founding fathers, and as depicted for time immemorial in various scriptures of faith. It incorporates accessing information and timely applications of knowledge, towards refining personal character, and the constructive betterment of the human lot in all its capacities.

It is not just in personal betterment but in personal effacement of that betterment that synergy then comes about. And that as we know is greater than the sum of its parts.

We need not be rich, but despite our ever changing economic profiles we also need not be impoverished. We need confine our prayerful acts neither to holidays, nor given time slots; neither to cloister, nor to community. Rather, we could seek to stay continuously conscious that we live, move and have our being within a synergetic force that’s mostly unseen, but one that every individual has a common origin in. If we either have more, or know more, then it is surely our responsibility to give a bit more. Such disposition stands not because of, but despite, our shortcomings; regardless of which strata of society we may be perched in.

The answer may well lie in personal effort. Yours was admirable. It is now for people to realize their responsibility in safeguarding those within their influence.