Rosie O'Donnell Reminds Us That We Need To Look After Each Other...

... by kicking the crap out of people (in absentia, no less) on network television.

I'm not qualified to say how we do a better job of looking after each other if in fact we're looking for scientific facts or medical precedent.  All I know is that at some point most of us are guilty of succumbing to the pressures of day to day life (most of which we heap on ourselves in self-mutilating fashion) and we then externalize our stress by lashing out when the load becomes too great.

But I really don't know what to make of Rosie O'Donnell's latest public joust.  Is it just me, or is she angry (about l o t s of stuff)?

In the aftermath of yet another outburst against a fellow celebrity, Rosie now insists that she trashed Lindsay Lohan personally and professionally on the Today Show last week because she's uh, well, worried about the young star.  Indeed, Rosie has capitulated and now says that Lindsay is a bit out of sorts and needs time away from the entertainment industry in order to recover properly before taking on any more acting roles.  She also states that as she watched Whitney Houston's funeral that she wondered why somebody didn't try to save the singer before it was too late, and in building on this thought is now concerned that Lohan will meet the same tragic fate as the singer.  I can't fault her for having this thought as I wondered the same thing in my April column for InsideToronto.com.  Of course I didn't paste anyone on a nationally syndicated morning show the day before I pondered whether or not Whitney could have been spared.  Just sayin.

Where I struggle with O'Donnell's current stance on all of this is that at no time in her appearance on the Today Show did anyone seem to think she was even remotely worried about Lindsay Lohan.  In angrily declaring that Lohan's life is "...still a disaster" and that ergo she is a terrible choice to play Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming biopic on the screen legend and her tumultuous relationship with Richard Burton, I didn't really get that Rosie was worried about Lindsay... not at all actually.

But yes, Rosie, I agree wholeheartedly that we need to do a better job of looking after one another.  In this instance I'm just not sure that you're right for the job.