The Adoption of the Century

What is with the obsession with Madonna adopting a kid? I don't get it at all. Apparently neither does she.

"With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child…who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world," Madonna said. "To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems. And our desires to have distractions and to be consumed with people's personal lives and gossip."

Some sanctimonious people want to make it a race thing. How dare she adopt a, gasp, black child! I guess the idea is black kids are better left with their own kind than being seen with white women? How Klan-ish.

Others appear to be concerned that she will raise her child in Kabbalah. Teaching your child your beliefs? What is the world coming to?

Aren't there more important things in the world to discuss than who Madonna chooses to adopt?