I just read this on a forum today, and don't know whether to laugh or cry:

"I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the
poison control centre.

Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little
daughter eating ants.  I quickly reassured her that the ants are not
harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the
hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to
kill the ants.  I told her that she better bring her daughter into the
emergency room right away."

Confucious, Socates, Solomon. People who think we're evolving because we drive cars and have central air are delusional. As long as Paris Hilton and the Kardashians are who we are trying to knock up, we are doomed as a species.

Unless we find better criteria for attraction we are fucked. I'm starting to get the impression that being articulate is actually a turnoff to twenty somethings these days. It means you aren't cool. If you don't write and think in text, subsitute Ss with Zs, you are old fashioned, and out of touch.

Yes, I'm out of touch. I don't want to be in touch. I can no longer talk to a generation who's idea of a retort to any argument is, "Whatever, dude."

Is it our education system? Rap music? Reality television? Entertainment news? Yes, all of the above. It's the worship of idiocy, and the moron is the medium.

When daytime talk show hosts give microphones to people too stupid to reproduce, so they can address millions of Americans with their opinion on child rearing.

Forget the crude language. It's the crude thinking. And they talk about euthanazing old people? Hell, old people can still speak the fucking language.

Maybe we should just administer I.Q. tests all around and force everyone under 90 into a given area. Oh, yeah, it's called Los Angeles.

Ok, Dick Cavett and Charlie Rose were dorks, but they didn't talk to the Kardashians. Didn't put them on a list of fascinating people.

It's getting hard to live in America, surrounded by biological waste matter. I don't care how cruel that sounds, something has to give. We simply can not keep putting stupid peope on television and expect our culture to survive the admiration of the clueless.

As for Paris Hilton and the Kardashians? Drag them out and shoot them. Twice.

Enough already. It's no longer cute or funny.

Can they please find someone with an I.Q. over 110 to put on television? Hell, why not 120? 130? This is how George W, the special education president, got elected. Our culture is so enamored of colorful idiots we even put them in office.

Enough. Stop. Apply the brakes. No more gossip magazines and E news. No more text lingo filtering into modern language and conversations. It is nauseating. Tragic. You don't elevate the bottom of the evolutionary barrel to celebrity status and sell posters of them. You round them up and force them into Minnesota. Or maybe scientology centers. I don't really know. I just know that a culture that makes me yearn for the intellectual stimulation of The Battle of the Network Stars is on it's last legs.

When Gabe Kaplan and Ed Asnwer in shorts starts to seem respectable, you know the well has run dry. Stick a fork in it. We're done. Fucking A. And people wonder why I'm a hermit.