Now Western Civilization is truly imperiled, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are approaching at a break neck gallop.  With all the issues facing humanity: oil spills, floods in Pakistan, rape as a weapon of warfare (notably these days in Africa,) the AIDS pandemic, the continuing economic slump we have to hear about BRISTOL PALIN’S T.V. MAKEOVER!!!!!   I feel as though I have in fact entered the twilight zone.   A de facto BABY MAMA is now a nationwide celebrity.   God bless the poor girl, she did what many of us did as teens: she fell in love with a cad.   That said, must we put her on the cover of national publications for the simple act of graduating high school (if this doesn’t epitomize Affirmative Action, I don’t know what does).  The week that happened, I attended a luncheon hosted by Ms. Magazine at which we heard about TRUE YOUNG WOMEN OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, among them, a Native American woman who had also been a teen mum but used her experience to help other economically CHALLENGED young women find a way out of poverty and the vicious cycle of unwed motherhood.  As I sat listening to her tale that afternoon, I wondered when any one of our national news or entertainment magazines would put this woman on its cover.   Perhaps it’s up to us, the consumers, to vote with our pocket books and remote controls.  Let’s let the media companies know we want quality not so called “reality.”