Some too soon, others not soon enough

The current list of stuff making me nuts:

Toddlers and Tiaras: Some network, I think it is The Learning Channel, has this show about beauty pageants for very young girls. We are talking like 4 and 5 years old. I have not watched it so I may be off base here (but I doubt it and if the president doesn’t need to know the facts neither do I), but the people would put their kids in these things are sick. Seriously, living vicariously through your kids is sad but exposing them to this should be punishable by law. They dress these children up in gowns and make up and parade them in front of America. How long before one of these kids gets kidnapped and killed by some pedophile.
For the sake of these kids, this show must die. But TLC has proven with Jon and Kate that they have no interest in children’s well being.

Apparently, Reading Rainbow is officially dead. They stopped filming new episodes a couple of years ago, but now reruns won’t even run. This is sad to me. I haven’t watched the show in many years but it was nice knowing it was there.

Speaking of dead, Tedward Kennedy and St. Michael of Jackson are still. I really thought they might come back after a few days and carry out their first miracles. It seems that the media has canonized these two men as saints, and the world just needs to acknowledge what they have known all along. The problem is you are not allowed to discuss any of their faults, because apparently they didn’t have any. We do no one a service by focusing on only the good. The full measure of a man is his life in its entirety.

Kennedy couldn’t be buried soon enough for me. The wall-to-wall coverage on 12 stations really got old. And, really it is time to bury Jackson. I realize four autopsies take a while, but really, it is time. Only problem is that his basilica hasn’t been built and no one knows where the body is.

John Hughes is still dead too, and that sucks. He meant more to me than these other two. In the 1980’s he was king of the teen drama. He seems to be an adult that really understood kids and their problems. His movies helped millions get through those tough years. I realize that kids from the 70’s and earlier or now probably place no value in those films, but to be fair, the stuff they liked is complete garbage in my eyes. I’m not arrogant enough to believe that only the suff from my formative years is quality, but I do believe it reflects the times and movies made for different generations doesn’t always translate.