Today on Oprah

A pastor beat his wife to death with a marble rolling pin. He dragged her outside in a comforter and beat her some more with a rock. Then he strangled her with a seatbelt. They had been married for 24 years. She was the youngest in her family and everyone loved her.

Also, a man and his wife separated after ten years. He had their children at his apartment for a visit. They were beautiful children, aged nine and eight. He suffocated the girl. He strangled the boy. He went to his wife’s house and stabbed her more than 59 times. She survived this and went on Oprah to let others know they might survive too.

Meditation after the show:

I will be aware that anyone can just ‘snap.’ I will look out for signs of depression, social isolation and loss of job. I will keep in mind that loving fathers and husbands can actually be brutal murderers underneath it all.

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Today on Oprah Oprah said she loved shoes and had five hundred pairs. Then she showed people who had lost all their things in a hurricane.

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Today on Oprah it was all about pathological liars. There was this woman who told her friends that her daughter had cancer. She also told the doctor that her baby turned blue. Because of this, the doctor gave her baby a spinal tap. Actually the daughter did not have cancer and the baby never did turn blue. She did, though, have the spinal tap.


Meditation after the show:

I will be careful not to believe everything I hear. I will be aware that my best friend could actually be lying to me.

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Today on Oprah the whole hour was about how to make one’s buttocks/ass/butt look good in a pair of jeans.

All different kinds of asses were shown in different styles of jeans. Two English ladies told us which asses looked best and why.

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Today the Oprah show was about buying the right bra. Apparently, 85 % of women wear the wrong bra size. Some Oprah staff went up to women in department stores and asked to see their bras and breasts. Then they told the women how bad their breasts looked in their bras. It seemed embarassing but the women didn't seem to mind.

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Oprah told today how she prayed to Jesus to get her an acting job in The Color Purple and then Steven Spielberg called her and gave her an acting job in The Color Purple.

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For her 50th birthday Oprah had all these celebrities beamed in by satellite to her show. They all said how wonderful she was. Oprah got really teary when Gwyneth Paltrow told her she should run for president.

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Oprah, were you really molested by a cousin, an uncle and a family friend?

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Today I read on Oprah.com that Oprah raised 3 million dollars for Hurricane Katrina victims. She raised this money from people who watched her show. Oprah, why do you ask for money from others when Wikipedia says you have a net worth of $800 million?

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Today on Oprah I felt kind of sick because Oprah showed a black bear getting electrocuted on a telephone pole in the suburbs. Also there was a woman who had a tumour cut off of her and the tumour weighed 200 pounds.


Then Oprah had these really famous ice skaters on the show. They were called Tanya and Mark. Oprah showed this video of the two of them dancing together on the ice. They were both in orange costumes. It was a big competition and thousands of people were watching. Mark had Tanya lifted way up above his head, he spinning around on one foot on the ice. Then he lost his grip and Tanya slipped from his hand. She fell fifteen feet face first onto the ice; you could see her face on Oprah’s video, landing on the ice and bouncing up and down there.

“What did that feel like?” Oprah asked her.