The second TV season is now under day. These days they try and bring back shows that have been buried or gone off the air mysteriously. Some good shows go off the air forever like “Alley Mc Beale”, where people were commenting that they were right in the middle of a major plot and the show just was dropped with no reruns or anything. There are shows like ‘Jesse” with Christina Applegate, or that comedy with Brook Shields in it, that didn’t last long. Now they say there will be new episodes of “Bones”, and “Hell’s Kitchen” is coming back. What we need now is some new spring time fad like streaking was. Something to take our mind off of the elections for the next five months. May I suggest some new shows they haven’t thought of. Leo Le Port should go back on prime time TV doing a computer show. Television would greately help out a computer show because you could actually view the screen. What they need is a teaching show to teach people tricks and tips on the most popular software. Most importantly they should tell you how to operate things when they DON’T go wrong. You shouldn’t assume every case is a one in a million thing where nothing works. Personally I could go for iconoclastic shows, shows that attack cherished beliefs and institutions and provide that all important “Political Balance”. They could do a show on gay people called “What they’re really like” where the two leading characters are nerdy geeks with bad hygene and do all the stereotypical things you associate with gays. They constantly engage in crude suggestive conversation about everybody. They are constantly propositioning people, and when people call them names you’re rooting for their taunters. And they have flashbacks on how they became by and how they blew perfect opportunities to go out with the prettiest girl on campus all because of their gayness, and how they constantly day dream pedophiliac fantasies. You could have a show called “Salem PD”, which is a take off on how the Salem PD on the soap opera never seems to catch the bad guy. Every sting is foiled by an inside mole in the department, and the criminals are constantly getting the better of them and even so Abe always says “You need to go by the book” even if “the book” is an ass. You could have a new version of “Prison Break” where the bad guys don’t get caught or fight among themselves. You could make it political like have a cause like de-criminalize all drugs and you could have the first escapees organizing break-outs in prisons all around the country. You could always have another “President” series. What ever happened to that show with a woman president? How about a Jehovah’s Witness president, who refused to salute the flag? That would be a fascinating campaign to show. How about a show about a person like myself who winds up in a board and care facility? The question is what to name it. There are euphamisums such as “Happy Haven” or “Golden Twilight” or something really pretentious such as “Gothen Manner”. Or perhaps a Spanish theme such as “New Barcelona” or “Casa Del Sol” or something generic like “
I would like once again to attack this Dennis Prager belief that genetics don’t mean a thing. More and more children who were conceived in a test tube or what not want to know their origins to know if they have any diseases they or their children need to be concerned about inheriting. I really think we need to work on offspring’s rights laws and how jacking off into a test tube doesn’t give you infallibility or anonymity. Of course you could have two people who want to get married who are really half sister and brother or something. This plea for “privacy” is a bogus one. If you put a trash baggie out on the street and someone looks in it and sees a computer or other substance you aren’t supposed to be throwing out, you are accountable. And yet these people see their own egg and sperm as trash receptacles where they don’t have to face consequences.
George Will says that he doesn’t like his children using the term “fairness”. I’ll tell you who loves that ruling; the one of his kids who is a natural bully. He loves it that he gets a “pass”. Meanwhile the other kids learn that raw power is everything and that laws and justice don’t mean squat. Oh well, they’re his kids. The "bottom line" on this whole "fairness" rap of George Will is that he wants Hillary to be the Democratic nominee, and for her to lose in November.
There is talk about raising the driving age to eighteen, since none of the high schools apparently offer Drivers Education any more. There is this trend to delay the maturation of our teenagers. It starts when kids are taught “self esteem” rather than academic performance. These echo boomers Demand a good paying job and not to have to work for it. Apparently you don’t dare slight or criticize them or else dire things will happen like you’ll be sued or something for violating their self esteem. There are those who say you shouldn’t marry till ate 25 and shouldn’t have sex till you’re married. The parents buy their kids cell phones that are expensive to use, and them keep their kids on a really short tether. And when I was a kid I don’t think we were as obsessed with these kiddy shows like sponge Bob square pants or whoever. I can’t think of any age I was at the past where I would have been comfortable watching a show like “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood”. I know Dennis Prager is one of these people who wants to delay the maturation of kids for as long as possible. In the job market I’m sure they regard people over fifty as Yesterday’s News and they are the “beautiful people” of the future. Often they use religion as an updated version of Disney for a hope of fulfillment of all their fantasies. Pretty soon it’s going to be rough for teenagers when we take their internet out of their lives, and deny them the junk food they crave, and tell them sex is for marriage. Tomorrow’s teenagers will long to be able to commit the sins of their parents.
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