RIP NEIL ARMSTRONG..

He made one giant leap for mankind..

And was one giant man for all of time.

This is America, 2012: Honey Boo Boo ratings rise as more and more people choose to laugh at others than better themselves

Apparently Americans like watching seemingly kind hearted people make fools of themselves on TV. After all, that somehow seems to be the real secret of reality television, doesn’t it? You can safely sit on a couch behind curtains, close off the world, and flip on the boob tube and watch someone else be the fool.. watchsomeone else get laughed at.. watch someone else’s life from a distance.

The latest example of our nation’s ability to find strange programming and make it a hit comes from HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO, the show based on the child from Georgia pageant fame. The show is now gathering about 2 million plus viewers for TLC.. and now that the new child star of the “reality” genre is getting more fame and fortune, she is also being attached heavily throughout the web world. A girl, simply living her childhood, thrust onto camera and forced to be a star—and now she will have the cloud of fame that follows her beyond into age. 

Ratings are rising, promising that the sick theater of reality programming is a sure bet to continue for a while, despite the probable detrimental effect he could have on the national psyche.  So with that, for those out there who want to be famous on TEEE VEEE, with reality programming being so young, there are plenty more chances for you to get yourself involved with the genre that can steal away your dignity for a couple thousand dollars—even though your image will be plastered all over everything for ever.. 

Honey Boo Boo will one day be an adult. I wonder how her childhood of television programming and giving up a pet pig on TV will help or hinder her eventual development… Don’t you? 

Just when I felt better, increased by vitamin intake, and began to exercise again, enter this scenario: My wife and I took Ayden to eat some pizza at PIZZA HUT today for lunch and we casually brought up to the younger waitress how we used to love the ‘book it program.’ She gave us a strange blank stare, smiling saying, “I never heard of that.” She seemed stunned of the knowledge we had on the past! It was like we told her we saw the ‘wheel’ get created.

She went on to tell us that her “older” manager “always talks about old days” of Pizza Hut.

I began to get stunned. And feel really old.

The waitress was only, say, ten years younger.. and I thought to myself in horror, when did “book it” end!?

I even told the server how, back in ‘the day,’ there would be a grand pizza party during the last week of school. I didn’t tell her, but I even have a newspaper clipping somewhere in my possession showing me and my friend Kevin in third grade waiting in line for pizza. Third grade for me was … the late 1980s. So the age begins to show, I suppose.. 

Soooo.. I did some research! AND feel a whole hell of a lot better!

BOOK IT STILL EXISTS! That’s right, server! Young punk! take your no-knowledge of anything and shove it! I have proof that YOU don’t know your own trade! ha! 

I still feel old, though.

After all, perhaps BOOK IT would work better if Pizza Hut changes it to “Kindle it.” Just saying.

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Greetings earthlings across the pale blue dot.It’s the weekend. Are you ready? Summer seriously winding down.

The crickets are chirping loud.. I see some yellow tint to some leaves. I just can’t believe that the long hot summer was so short..

This time of year may be the best. Now until October. Beautiful nights.. amazing mornings.. Sunny and warm but not oppressive.

But this time of year goes by rather fast, too.. Gone soon will be the noise of leaves rustling in a summer breeze. Soon a howl of cold wind

But we cannot be depressed. The midsummer night’s dream turns into an autumnal depression.. followed by winter suppression.

But at least we have Christmas……. And the Mayan calender excitement on 12/22.. if we make it through December we’ll be fine.

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The other thing that happens when Mitt Romney comes to town

There is a lot of fanfare this year about the chances that we could have the first Mormon president.. beyond that, the GOP platform is anti-gay marriage and pro-life.. But when Republicans party, they let their hair down and unfasten those striped ties.

The proof? Strip clubs in Tampa are prepping for the Republican presence. 

CNN is reporting this evening that while GOP officials are closely watching the track of Tropical Storm Isaac, strip clubs are getting their poles shined.  The strippers want the GOP to ‘make it rain,’ CNN says. CNN’s profile also speaks about a roof view where you can get a ‘quick launch’ lap dance. Or one called a ‘death lay.’ 

CNN is also reporting in the same dispatch that strip clubs are playing on thought that conservatives are stuffy. Clubs offering the chance to 'party like a liberal' are popping up around the city..One place called Thee DollHouse is even offering a VIP entry with a government ID, according to their sign outside. Republicans believe in voter ID. Perhaps it will translate into strip club ID as well..

How many clubs will paint the pole red, white, and blue for the week? How many strippers will come dressed or undressed in patriotic pride? G-strings with a small elephant.. lots of aspiring women working night jobs to support a day life, hoping the wealth of the Republican party will translate into dollars down  the pants and lap dances behind the plants. Interesting, though.. we will see how much play this strip club story gets. 

Some comments on the CNN article are speaking of the potential hypocritical nature of this story. After all, will CNN have a similar report about the Democrats…? Or is just expected that strip clubs will be busy when Donkeys act like asses? 

What CNN failed to talk about in their piece was just how many MALE STRIP CLUBS were going to try to get the same attention that the female folks do… and how many Republicans may sneak a show into one..? All the while cheering on the floor of the convention to have a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage…

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Caillou.. the kid all parents hate, but love.

Attention parents out there.. what is the deal with Caillou? My son loves him.. but I don’t get him. Is he real? an illusion?

Perhaps he is just an enigma. The imagination of an insane older grandmother who is intent on believing he exists. 

I cannot imagine a father in reality like  Caillou’s. Or a mom. Or even a sister. No fighting!? No drugs!? No alcohol at an early age!

No,  Caillou must be fake. He carries no knives, no weapons. Not like the reality of kids today.

But the fact he likes making crafts and enjoys doing laundry makes me happy my son watches him.. after all,  Caillou is a boy of peace. I think. OR a villain waiting to rear his ugly head..

Nude Congressmen!! "Legitimate rapes!" This is why Republicans will lose in November.

Just the facts first: A Republican named Todd Akin in Missouri was a favorite to win this fall in a Senate race against incumbent Claire McCaskill. Then he said this: It seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare, If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” .. Enter the firestorm. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have distanced themselves already, Akin has Tweeted constant sorrys from his account.. and he has vanished from the media glare as the firestorm continues across the political landscape. Now a woman who was set to lose in the fall, McCaskill, may have an issue, a new fire to hit back, and a chance to win and keep the Senate for the Democrats in November.

Second, this one more obscene than the ‘legitimate rape’ stupidity: A Republican Congressman named Kevin Yoder from Kansas went to the Sea of Galilee last year with lots of other Republicans. They decided to get really drunk and party, and in a sign of stupidity, immaturity, and absolute disrespect for where he was, took his clothes off and went skinny dipping into the sea. And now the FBI is looking into it!  Other Republicans were there, too—including former Vice President Dan Quayle’s son Ben.. OH, and one Congressman’s daughter swim with all of the others.. Hmm.. Yoder, thus far, is the only one making ‘waves’ for being completely in the buff in the historic sea of Galilee. He also Tweeted a sorry, too.

These two stories have intense political significant, and pop culture repercussions, too. Legitimate rape? Swimming nude in the Sea of Galilee? If this is how Republicans are without the media spotlight, just imagine how they’ll act next week at their own convention!?