More teenage parents than myspace!

I just watched the season finale of Baby Borrowers. The only reason I know this show exists is because they sent a promo to the newspaper I used to work for with their first two episodes (which the network said we weren't allowed to review. Just watch and mock, which we did). So when I saw the preview for the finale that promised to tell which couples remained together, I made a point to watch it.

The premise of the show is that young couples, kids 18 and 19, live in this neighborhood together. The first two nights the couple stays alone and "goes to bed with nothing happening" (two teenagers are alone in a house, there's no way they didn't bone). Then the couple gets to watch a baby for a few days, then a toddler, then a pre-teen, then an old person.

Spoiler alert: none of the couples stay together. What I find extremely presumptuous is that the show tries to imply that its the reason for all the break-ups. Because high school couples don't break up before or during college? Because that's not perfectly normal, and would have happened whether these kids went on a reality TV show or not? Yes, NBC, its totally you're fault these couples broke up, and not the hot guy/girl living down the hall in their dorm.

Granted, the wedding I have coming up at the end of August is between two people who have been together since she was a sophomore in high school, but I'm gonna say they're the exception that proves the rule.

"Running for political office is like debating with a forum troll..."

Godwin's Law has been evoked, Obama has been compared to Hitler. And by Ben Stein no less, a name I haven't heard in a long time.

I don't like the idea of Senator Obama giving his acceptance speech in front of 75,000 wildly cheering people. That is not the way we do things in political parties in the United States of America. We have a contained number of people in an arena. Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that's something the Fuehrer would have done.

Right, something the Fuehrer would do, and something any politician who could get 75,000 screaming people would do. What is the fear here? That people like this guy? This isn't the way we do things in America because usually no one likes the candidates enough.

If you're going to compare someone to Hitler, do it because they have similar politics (like, say, a hatred of homosexuals), or have similar practices (like, say, detaining people in camps without a fair trial) [I'm sure you see where I'm going with that, so I'll stop rather than evoke the law myself...], not because they're the political equivalent of the Beatles.

Actually, new rule. Unless the person has murdered millions of people, don't compare them to Hitler. That's a hyperbole. It's just silly, and makes you look desperate. The next person who compares either Bush, Obama, Brittany Spears, or anyone except people like Stalin to Hitler gets a pie in the face. Sound fair?

And for the record, I agree with this t-shirt. People really need to stop acting like Obama is the second coming.