ENOUGH ALREADY
Carolyn B Healy
I turned on the Today Show this morning for the first time in weeks, and they’re just lucky I was prepared to gi
ve them a second chance. I had to put them on probation back on the second day of the Michael Jackson death marathon. If they were going to act like the entire world screeched to a halt just because one exceedingly troubled entertainer died, then they’d have to do it without me. I am not without compassion for M. Jackson, as he was clearly victimized first and repeatedly before he turned his attentions to young boys. I just sought some balance and the slightest recognition that he became a predator himself.Soon after, I left on a lengthy trip where my morning viewing switched to the cruise director’s daily closed circuit TV show, for which he donned a turban and received a lovely facial from the spa staff, and talked on and on about shopping. I didn’t miss Today at all.
Once back, I needed a week to overcome jet lag, and was finally ready to resume my usual habits. Certainly Today was over the pop star immersion by now and back to actual news. I switched it on. What filled the screen but the entire Duggar family, the reality show crew who unapologetically shows off their incredible flair for reproduction, a 21 person mass seated somehow - they must have bleachers in the living room - around the parents.
“The Duggars are here. And they have an announcement,” the off-screen voiced teased. “We’ll be right back.” MORE . . .
HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Ellie Searl
. . . they lived happily ever after. THE END.
"Night, night, sweetie girl, sleep tight.”
“How do you know?”
“How do I know what?”
“That they liveded happily ever after.”
“Lived, not liveded.
Well, they just did, like in all your other stories.”
Well, they just did, like in all your other stories.”
“Bambi’s mommy didn’t - she got shotted by a bad hunter.”
“Shot, not got shotted.”
“And the poor little match girl got frozed.”
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