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Too Deep for Daytime TV

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | Sara the Wife

I have *really* been enjoying my time off this past week.  My days have been filled with “junk” TV and one, simple productive task a day.  I feel like it’s okay to watch some silly court show if I’ve made the bed or unloaded the dishwasher.  In fact, I often make a game of it seeing just how much I can get done during the commercial breaks.  After all, there’s only so many UEI and Law Offices of Larry H. Parker commercials a girl can take in a given day!

Of course, filling my mind with junk isn’t the only thing I’ve been doing lately.  I’ve had a chance to visit a few friends, make cookies, and use my breadmachine too.  In fact, in a hour or so I will be heading out to take my favorite cousin lunch at her work!  The smell of warm garlic herb bread currently fills the house…

As much as junk TV (by that I mean talkshows, court shows, etc.) can turn my mind to mush, it sure gives me a great deal to think about.  For example, the first segment of the Rachel Ray Show this morning was a “kitchen table” debate about women and casual sex.  It was all very interesting and stimulated many, many opinions in my mind.  Dakota may have gotten an earful!  The next segment was about a stay-at-home mom with 4 absolutely unruly boys who have destroyed much of the house (damaged the outside of the garage with golf clubs, wrote on furniture and walls, tore up the carpet, etc.).  Rachel was sending in an “expert” to help the mom fix all of the damaged pieces and safeguard them against any future beatings.  Fortunately, I got a phone call before I got too into the segment.  I was enraged!!!!   The  issue isn’t the damage to the house, it’s the lack of discipline!  And yet, everyone seemed to laugh (uncomfortably, I might add) as one of the boys continued to pull up the carpet while talking to the expert about a home makeover.  Please!  Woe to the teachers who will have the little twerps in their classrooms next year!

All this to say, that perhaps I think a little too deeply for these types of programs.  And I don’t even know if most of them warrant the time it takes to develop an opinion.  Are there really people out there that think casual sex and safeguarding your stuff against unruly children are important enough to talk about?

(yes, yes, I see the irony!)

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