A few days a go I was watching TV and came across something that was unbelievable. Apparently it is a very popular show about a chubby little girl named Honey Boo Boo and her obese family members.It started with family members weighing in at 370 pounds or more.Everyone seemed very happy as they were laughing their heads off (probably because nitwits watch their show every week). A couple of minutes into the show a huge woman started to talk about the amount of gas passed within the family.She was hysterical because one of her favorite pastimes was to pass gas in an elevator and get off at the second floor, thus leaving the other passengers to choke to death before arriving at their destination.Talk about fun! She was really having a great time just thinking about it.She did not use the term 'passing gas' however. The initial on the picture will fill you in as to the word she used.And she used it many, many times.We've come along way since the days of innocence, morality and simple consideration of other people, but the more of these shows people watch, the more they are accepted by the general population as being hilarious.Rolls of fat are not funny. and to have this little girl in the middle of it all is disgraceful. She will grow to be as obese as her other family members and will pass gas whenever she feels like it. Honey Boo Boo is not a cute little Shirley Temple-ish girl who can sing and dance. She is an overweight child who is being raised in a terrible environment...and millions of people watch this and cheer. To think that she is 'cute' is a real stretch of the imagination. It seems that TV is obsessed with hoarders, fat people and violence. What a shame this is when the medium could do so much good. But we've gone way past that and we now wallow in this type of mental sludge that is presented as entertainment for the masses.
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From "Doggerel", c 2000 Anya Laurence
The Great Dane
The King of the bow wows...the Dane
Is regal, imposing and vain.
When he's old and weak
And past his peak
He'll strut with monocle and cane.
Until next time, when I will write about more earth-shaking events, keep cool!
