Anyone else have a friend who needs to stop people from having mindless fun? [View All]

I have a friend who, without fail, will bring up some fact about the sorry state of the world to try and end the frivolity. Things like:

- During the Super Bowl he asked how we could cheer for millionaires who care nothing about us personally when there were homeless on the streets.

- A few of us were discussing new music coming out and he said something close to, "I don't understand how you can discuss something so trivial when people are dying in Iraq."

- At a dinner party, my wife was sharing some wedding photos at the request of a few other guests when he brought up a bombing in Iraq that killed a wedding party.

- Most recently, we told our friends that we bought a house (I posted about it here earlier this week), and he asked if we knew how many meals at a shelter our mortgage would buy each month.

I know his examples are all truly terrible and awful events, but I don't think celebrating or participating in popular culture and being an activist are mutually exclusive concepts.