Honey Boo Boo, family 'really sore' after car wreck

I already see bloggers and Tweeters and others mocking the family and making some horrible jokes about this car accident.

Yes the show is deplorable. And no, I don’t watch it—not even the clips. But come on, people.. show some class, and interrupt your hate for a few minutes and just hope for the best for some of your fellow humans. 

Honey Boo Boo, family 'really sore' after car wreck

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? 

This is the world we live in: All within a week of news

The conversation changes rapidly these days.

Here were the topics—and they all took place within a week.

We started by complaining that NBC was failing at its obligation to provide good Olympics coverage. We briefly cared about Syrian refugees, even though their plight is horribly more important than Bob Costas bantering about athletes and how firm their muscles are. 

We moved on quickly to the Mars Curiosity Rover. How amazing. And yes, it is amazing. But in the shuffle we ignored Russia’s Pussy Riot being put in jail by Vlad the impaler in Russia—even though Madonna cared. 

Back to the Olympics for a while! Everyone got excited at water polo even though few understood what it was. I like soccer, so I ignored water polo. Bob Costas did not.

And finally, with all the mayhem in the world and juvenile leadership from the elite controllers, what are we left with this Friday? What is the conversation? You guessed it: Honey Boo Boo. 

Sadly, Hillbilly child Honey Boo Boo will be around in the news and conversation a lot longer than Syrian refugees, too..

Happy Friday.