Where's my TV?

Has anyone noticed that ever since 2000 or so sitcoms have died? Sure CBS has an ok line up on Mondays with How I Met Your Mother, 2 1/2 Men and Rules of Engagement...(and some other show with the girl from Charmed with 3 geeks, wasn't one of them David on Roseanne?) But where are the rest of the shows... whatever happened to T.G.I.F??? ABC had a steller idea in the mid 90's which consisted of basically Nick At Nights line up today... Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, Step by Step and other various plug ins..... NBC had Friends, Blossom and Seinfield..... but what the hell is going on now?

There is nothing to laugh at anymore...America has gotten serious and not in the good way... sure 100 million people tune into American Idol, Surviver, The Amazing Race and Dancing with the Stars....but these are reality shows...which I blame MTV for creating...we all know that Road Rules and The Real World came first.

Then you have all the hour long drama shows that have held intrest but is slowly fading...Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, ER, and of course every Law and Order...but where is the comedy...

This rambler (and Mugs of course) has found that USA is most likely to show something with a little humor...step child of NBC, USA has gone from second run movies to 1st run shows... Psych gives a great laugh while solving crime....same goes for Emmy Award winning Tony Shalub and Monk....(who would have ever thought the mechanic on Wings would be winning Emmys)...and of course you could always watch the dramas like Burn Notice and In Plain Sight to catch comic relief....

But truely the sitcom is gone, and has been taken over by god knows what.... FOX's solution to this is of course Family Guy and American Dad...but new episodes get to be few and far between....thanks to hulu.com we could watch them over again.....

I give up... I'll go and look for my Box sets now... because syndication has just too many commerical promos....

Welfare, Child Support and America

Ok so is anyone else tired of watching everyone abuse the system. Sure we have all been complaining about it for years but everyone sterotypes...but guess what... WAKE UP AMERICA it's everyone!

Ok my first comaplint is single mothers who are abusing the system. I know of one young "lady" who not only is using welfare money to buy herself designer clothes, shoes and brand new cell phones, but has four kids while she's at it.... Three fathers, four children...yet she goes after only the last one, who is unemployed, an ex-con and has absolutly no money to help... due to all the hardships she has caused by throwing him in jail (now come on people if you throw someone in jail, how are they to work and get money for child support? I mean really?!) he is unable to even see his son, for fear of having to deal with her. Its no wonder the state made her tie her tubes...

But still should she be allowed to abuse the Welfare system? She never tried to work a day in her life...Look at the state of America these days thanks to certain administrations.... we are all between a rock and a hard place and you use that money that someone else could use to feed themselves and their family to buy a new pair of Seven Jeans?

Where is the welfare examiner to notice these things...obviously if all these fancy things were gifts...why be on welfare in the first place......

Just something to chew on people...

Celeberties In The Clink...

Ok - so what is seriously going on with the rich and famous... We have always been use to them going into rehab and having all kinds of eating disorders but now with all the violence and jail terms going on who's left to idolize?

O.J Simpson was aquitted years ago in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, however some of us look at it as the event to open the flood gates in a long line of celeb violence. Of course the Rap community has held longer ties in this dealing, which sounds stereotypical but factual no less... Biggie and Tupac murdered, 50 cent and how many others (T.I, Ja Rule, Lil Wayne to name a few) with gun charges...and now Chris Brown beating the ever love'n daylights out of Rihanna.

(Though to tell you the truth, was anyone suprised? Doesn't that follow a long line of domestic violence in showbiz? I'll take Ike Turner for $300 Alex...)

Of course there is corruption in the child star industry...parents always stealing this one's money or this one's innocence...give me a break...

But now! Phil Spector charged for killing an actress Lana Clarkston (who?)... but let's look at the history books shall we?

Fatty Arbuckle - Old Screen Star.. beat a prostitute to death and was aquitted

Robert Blake shot his wife and claimed he was innocent....

Matthew Broderick - drove his BMW into some women kind of like Matthew Perry who crashed his new car into a buiding the day after rehab ended....

William S. Burroughs - shot his wife playing William Tell

Laura Bush -killed a dude while driving drunk...how's that for presidential secrets....

Ted Kennedy - drove off a bridge, leaving his passenger underwater..then again do we expect anything more from the Kennedy's... John John was basically suicide...

Don King- shot a robber, also stomped to death someone who owed him money - maybe he insulted his hairdo?

Keith Moon - ran over his chauffeur (was he sober?)

Tom Neal - shot his wife in the back of the head with a .45

Anne Perry - beat her friend's mother to death with a brick...what a nice girl....

Albert Salmi - murder/suicide pact with his wife...always good but didn't live to see trial

Sid Vicious - stabbed his girlfriend, and then died before trial

Not to mention those who OD? Can you even name one classic rock star who was never on drugs?

You think with all the money they have an everything that they are capable of with their talents and what not why fall so far from grace? I'll take your fame...you keep the violence...

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