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I agree with what most of Deepak Chopra has to say. He never says anything negative, so it’s hard not to agree with what he’s talking about. He’s just trying to help people. But when he says things wearing those red glasses with the bling bling on the sides, I have a hard time taking anything he says seriously.

It’s like he put them on for a Saturday Night Live skit. It’s like if the Dalai Lama all of a sudden started wearing a Nike T-shirt with a gold chain, or Mikhail Gorbachev promoting bags by Luis Vuitton, actually that’s happened, so I scratch that. You get the idea though, there’s the good old disconnect going on, one of these things doesn’t seem to fit.

Really though, for Chopra, who espouses a Buddhist philosophy, it’s hilariously and a bit odd for him to wear something that makes a statement of perhaps vanity or ego, it’s hard to take, or more, it’s hard not to laugh at.

The same goes for Tom Daschle, who has taken to wearing some fire hydrant red glasses these days, all the while he promotes a pragmatic, logical and understated set of health care programs or economic reform“ in his support for Obama. As Maureen Dowd wrote in one of her recent articles: “It should have been a harbinger of doom when Daschle began sporting those determined-to-be-hip round red glasses.”

Is this an age thing? Do both of these men fall into a mid life type of crisis? Where these red glasses act as their means of making a change. Who knows, but it’s hard not to laugh at their pics.