This is what's on television lately: Shows about morbidly obese people, a 1,000 pound man, a 600 lb. woman; shows about miserable looking fat people jiggling and joggling and trying to lose weight, so many shows about fat people it's become nauseating. Now, mind you, I'm no skinny- minny myself, but I just wish those super large folks would do the decent thing and just go away and suffer in private.

Now A&E and TLC and God knows who else are airing shows about hoarders. At first it was fascinating in a "phew" "yuck" sort of way to see people living in trash filled filthy houses--one in particular comes to mind. A counselor, and trash trucks came in and tried to separate this couple from their garbage, and remove a house full of cats. Dead cats were found mummified everywhere under the piles of junk, and live sick cats roamed over the nasty house.
The counselor had to go through every little piece of trash before the hoarders would relinquish even the smallest scrap. It's obvious that anyone who would live in a dung heap is mentally ill and needs treatment. I don't get the soft words and placating attitude of the counselors. Get those people in a hospital and give them shock treatment.

THEN--there are the shows, very numerous now, about midgets and dwarf's. (I know, I know, Little People is politically correct.) The Roloff family, The Little Couple (the wife Jen, is a doctor, a doll sized woman who is so cute and smart,) The Little Chocolatiers and so on.

Then there is the show about drug addicts and alcoholics, called Intervention, and I have no desire to see druggies and hurt families for an hour at a time, week after week.


Also endemic on TV are the large families, that used to include Jon and Kate Gosselin; now there are others with 10 kids, and 15 kids, broods, packs, litters of children, including the Duggars with 19!!

I know somewhere out there in TV Land there is a scout looking for the perfect combination of all of the above: An obese hoarding dwarf with drug and alcohol problems and 15 kids. Yep, I'll bet that's coming soon to your TV, and you heard it from me.
susil