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We’re watching you
Another long week, with the boy somewhere between healthy and ill, and me between sleepy and sleep-deprived.
A few notes:
If Bowflex wants my business so bad, why do they keep putting weirdos in their morning TV ads? First it was the ultra-buff 55-year-old grandmother, which is fine except the ads showed her cavorting poolside with 20-something guys. Ew. Then there’s the 50-year-old guy who is a “director of quality” (and he knows quality) and plays in a band at night and just seems like the type of guy who annoys the heck out of everyone within 100 yards.
Lately, we’ve got the creepy-eyed chipmunk guy who boasts that he “gave all his fat clothes to his fat friends.” What? What kind of guys are going to take another guy’s clothes? And if they did, I’ll be they’re a little miffed now.
This was going to be a joke about violence in entertainment and how the universe began with the big bang, but I couldn’t make it funny. Sorry.
CNN.com has its own categories: U.S. World. Politics. Health. Seems like they ought to have their own category for “Horrible Things Happen to Children.” Oh wait, they do. It’s called “Latest News.”
Seriously, check out CNN.com right now and I’ll bet their “Latest News” has at least one story about a child meeting a horrible end. I’m pretty sick of it. I’d like to declare March “Amnesty for Children on CNN.com Month.”
Remember, we’re watching you.
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