The Exploitation of Minors....

I have no idea why this crap is hanging on in my head like a bad pair of drapes in a guest bedroom, but hey it is. Jon and Kate plus 8 keeps spinning in my head. This is a summer of my daughters 16th year and I am busy around the house, and from time to time the cable TV is on in the background of my life making noise.

Occasionally, I have watched the show "Jon and Kate Plus 8", and I have, over the last few months, turned it off because, quite frankly, a bunch of kids whining and learning to pee is not entertainment for me. However, earlier in the development of the show, I thought it an interesting peek into the lives of these two people who, with the help of fertility docs and their christian faith were blessed with twins and then sextuplets and thus became saddled with the huge (and daunting task) of raising a small army. I remember thinking controlling Kate won't be so chipper and able to controll when they all hit puberty -but by the looks of reality, there is much more to the misery than originally thought.

Now with all the buzz in the media, about Jon and Kate being anything but what they portray on television, it makes me sick to see TLC (The Learning Channel) camping out in the Gosselin's life and marketing the demise of the family for all the world - for the purpose of ultimately profiting the parents and the sponsors all at the children's expense.

Anyone who tunes into any of the crumbling drama, or spin-off shows in the works - ('Kate Plus 8'), will be contributing to the ugliness of these two people, as well as to TLC's contribution in the exploitation of minors. The privacy of these small children's lives is at stake.

Mafia Posers...

I have posers on the mind. Maffia type posers who dress in dark suits and coats in 100+ degree weather and make B lines for the caskets at wakes to see the wax like faces of the dead - then these same maffia type people complain at the way a lifeless body looks - well DUH...that is what dead is you Maffia man - and woman...dead dead dead - now go feed your parking meter and shut up.

Monday's

Monday's are so oblivious to the fact that if we ignore them - they won't exist. However, Monday's are creepy and they lie - the only reason they exist is because we let them. Just try reading your Sunday paper on Monday. And go to BRUNCH - see how your Monday likes that. Careful because Monday will show up in your mail box - but ignore it there too. Which will undoubtably piss your Monday off so bad it will land on the hood of your car parked in your drive way and slide down onto the ground and roll all over the drive way with the leaves and grime. Let it. Mondays love to throw temper tantrums. If this happens to you, I suggest getting your power hose out and hosing down your car directly on a Monday. Yep washing your car on Monday will send it into a rage and most likely Monday will get all choked up and won't be able to speak for a good three hours - and the best thing is after you have washed your car right on that Monday, you will leave a water and suds trail which will eventually travel down the gutters of your neighborhood and will disturb all the other Mondays' that have been successful at infiltrating other's lives in your hood. This is a great taunting technique and often causes your neighbors to envy not only you and your clean car, but your lovely tan. Yes tan because you are wearing shorts and a halter - or no top at all if you are a hairy man or a buff boy. Yep Monday's demand you wear their uniform which smacks of 'respectability' - - Ignore that rule too. And refuse to go to any place of business unless it is a mall or a restaurant where you can flit away the hours as if drooling while napping. Mondays need to hear papers shuffling and phones ringing in order to survive until Tuesday comes and bumps it over with it's terrible bad breath.