Before I get into this, please know that I couldn't care less about the political situation in California, outside of the fact that it could possibly affect my higher-order life-liver sister Jilly in some way.

Anyway, David Letterman showed a video clip of Arnold Schwarzennegar, circa 1980, surrounded by belly dancers and he jumps in the middle and puts his hands on the buttocks of one of the dancers and dances. It was in a "fun" spirit and it was obvious the dancer wasn't offended. Naturally, Letterman had a great line and the crowd howled at Arnold's expense.

But here's the deal. We all have those moments in our youth that we were acting silly, or having a good time, or wore clothes we wish we hadn't, or had the hairstyle we regret, or made the stupid mistake, or saying the wrong thing...whatever.

It's bad enough looking at the birthday party photos from 1975, or seeing the Easter Super 8mm films of me and dad in maroon leisure suits, or even some of those college fraternity pics reveal more than we might like...and don't even start about living through the 1980's and the horrible fashions that simply occurred naturally. And, being a youth minister, man, I've done some ridiculous things.

But I'm thinking of a minor cultural shift. See, I lived my youth before everybody had a video camera...with sound and everything. Can you imagine living the years of youth with the potential to have it all on video? Or, more importantly, when we choose to do something stupid our friends get out the video camera?

Think about it. In or out of context, those clips of our lives could come back to haunt us. Maybe we should work on some self-policing of the video technology. Or maybe we should work on some self-policing of how we act.