Over it

OK, enough is enough. I realize that there's a better-than-average chance that I'm going off half-cocked, but, just as they are expected to invoke their 5th Amendment right, I'm exercising my 1st Amendment right.

Frankly, I'm hoping they do invoke their 5th Amendment right, because I'm tired of hearing the story.

To the members of the press: Is is really that much of a slow news day? Are you that starved for the next attention-craving media whores that need to make some big spectacle of themselves in order to fill some empty void in their lives? Is this the next Octomom story that you need to make your career on?

While I admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the WHPS's back-handed slap to the reporter who was chasing this story at the news conference last week (?), can we please move on?

Is it really "news" when a doctors make a huge judgemental error and impregnate a woman with 8 viable embryos? Or when a hot air balloon allegedly carries off a child who then goes missing, only to be found in the family's attic? Or when a pop star's funeral is turned into a complete freakin' circus at taxpayers' expense? Is this the next installment of ridiculousness?

The one underlying commonality is that all of these people were making some sort of attempt at a reality show when in fact their lives are not worth the airtime. Well, except maybe MJ, but his life was a trainwreck, you must admit, and it was perfect for what has become the never-satiated appetite of those who feed on reality tv.

Congratulations to the White House party crashers: their names have just been entered into the public embarrassment record book right next to, not only octomom and MJ, but that dipshit dumbass Paris Hilton.

It's sad, really, when these are the people we idolize.