This was only a matter of time. Johnny Weir has been forced to switch from real to fake fur.
Weir wore a costume for his free program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships two weeks ago that included a small amount of — gasp! — white fox fur on his left shoulder. Not surprisingly, he received enough protests and hate mail from animal-rights advocates that he has decided to replace the fox with faux fur.
The death toll in Haiti is more than 150,000. Soldiers are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq. One in 10 Americans is unemployed, and homeless shelters are swelling. But hey, Johnny Weir wore a piece of fur on his costume! We can’t have that!
