Don’t tell me what to do.

Celebrities just love to tell the rest of the world what to believe, how to think and act. If it’s important to them, by gods, the rest of us ordinary folk need to sit up and take notice.

I would be less annoyed if all this celebrity cause-promotion was a tad less self-serving or hypocritical.

A very few cases in point:

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
The Faith Hill Family Literacy Project
The George Lucas Educational Foundation
The Alonzo Mourning Charitable Fund
The Britney Spears Foundation
The Justin Timberlake Foundation
Garth Brooks Touch ’em All Foundation
Mike Tyson Foundation

There are plenty of good organizations doing the exact same work as these foundations claim to do. Organizations that were there all along. But these celebrities and more, choose to form their own foundation. Why? Duh, to get their name on it. To give themselves another 15 minutes. It’s not to say their foundations (the ones that actually have money, that is) aren’t doing good works. It just seems to me that more good would be done by combining their celebrity and efforts with an existing charity.

Check out this story. Plenty of celebrities contribute nothing but their celebrity to the charity they represent, and many of them get cash and perks in exchange. Nice, huh? While they are telling us to send our hard-earned cash to the charity of their choice, they aren’t contributing a dime.

Oh, and Bigshot Celeb, I’m telling you now not to inform me any further about all the starving children, disabled homeless people, and how just $100 would make a big difference. Why don’t you put up and SHUT UP!