Sarah and Todd wannabe's.

Here.

(I'm holding out for the fishing and snowmobile "reality" videos myself. It's great for folks to become acquainted with the great outdoors in mid life though. Especially the East Coasters, I think, where playing outside and getting dirty as a kid seems to get in the way of organizational success... Only when you've secured your position on that gravy train, it seems, do you get to do the childlike things... too bad the kids are grown already, and were raised with those inside values that so often trip you up later in life...)

Speaking of,
how does retroactively enforcing a civility code -- isn't that what's being done here? -- against a man who did not make policy (thank the Clinton-era Dems for that) and yet managed to make the best of a bad situation (yep, we got gays on board, nope you can't ask/talk about it...) in a humorous way, gaining the respect of his crew, and getting the job done ... who is helped by kicking this man out for PC reasons now? Surely not the country.

It's one thing to equalize our employment and marital laws, so that heterosexual divorcees and the multi-married don't get the entitlement benefits for nothing. For being special, straight and all. It's one thing to permit workers to get the job done, and not have to pretend or hide personal characteristics that others might deem immoral or undesirable to be around. Suck it up.

It's another thing to pretend, 4 years after the fact, that, "people were offended" and "we can't let our (presumably weak) see humor like this!" nevermind that, for better or worse, you see the gay jokes on everything from Jon Stewart, to SNL.

Truth be told: if we treated our gay and straight citizens the same, measuring them by their personal committments, family stability and ability to compete effectively in the unentitled workplace -- no special points for women, gays, or disabled, just honest equal opportunities -- we'd have a big shakeup in the merit classes.

It's much easier to be benevolent, distributing "rights" as sugary sprinkles on a dessert treat, than to be honest and admit that the system as it is, the legalized discrimination that permits multiple marraiges/divorces/out-of-wedlock births as legalized family groupings: "One Man. One woman. One woman. One woman..." until they finally get it right, skews the stats.

Stats matter, but are easily manipulated. Multiple abortions by some women skews the stats to tell us that one of 3, or one of 5, American women will choose to kill off their developing life, before it can grow to viability or full term. Nope, thankfully. And as you travel into more and more of the states where life is still respected, and not commodified down to it's present market value, you see good healthy lifestyles while so many of society's "successful" (see Pete Orswag) screw up, again and again, take their legal "rewards" for the slipups, and then when they still can't stand on their own two feet, well that's when you get mandates forcing other people who have lived and stand by their own personal choices, to cover you. No thanks.

You can imitate a lifestyle, but you can't erase your past. And everyone watching -- those raised when critical thinking skills were considered more important than PC thinking -- wonders when the slipups will finally take you down. As the Boomers age, and their entitlement mentality proves unsustainable, it will be fun, I think, to watch them fall.