MTV did WHAT?

I woke up this morning in what I consider to be a "hate fog". Not sure what brings these moods swings on but I'm sure that being a Monday didn't help things along. Every aspect of my surroundings was beginning to make me not mad, but furious.

Here in the last several weeks our family's devil dog, Sophie has began utilizing her internal alarm clock. She used to wake up when my alarm would go off and she would jump up on the bed and begin her pee-pee dance almost demanding that I rise immediately to let her out. Well, a few weeks back I changed her diet and for some reason that's when her clock began to go off on its own. So that's how my day began. A fluffy mutt that I didn't want in the first place waking me up without the option of a snooze button. Grr.

These moods of mine are somewhat manageable as long as my interaction with humans remains fairly low. Unfortunately, for my wife, she doesn't go to work until 10, so she bears witness to my shitty attitude. This morning consisted of:

Watching the Today show (as usual) and wanting to yell at Justin Bieber for not realizing that he, just like every other little shitty boy band, will not make it. Why do I even care?

Wanting to give out an OHS to Ann Curry for being a really bad morning show host. "There's a reason you are not the main host you dumb bitch! Cause you SUCK AT YOUR JOB!"

The coffee was really bad this morning and it's all Tracy's fault.

This pimple on my hairline refuses to go away and I'm approaching the moment of sawing it out with a pocket knife.

Let's make this look fun to some kids. WTF?

Then Tracy reminds me of last night’s conversation. We just came off a long weekend of dance competition with two of our girls and while at dinner with them and JJ (Al's Bonus mom). We somehow ended up talking about the shows on MTV, mainly of course the about the sitcom 'Skins'. This is a show that MTV has decided was such a ratings monster that they thought it would be good to put it on air. One problem: It's child porn. I mean, it has little kids screwing while on a blitz of drugs. Just who the hell are they targeting?

I see it one of two ways:

1) MTV is either targeting kids that are old enough to watch soft core porn, which puts them into an "Over 17" category. Then in turn means they are marketing kiddie porn to adults, or:

2) They are targeting my kids and wanting them to watch high school kids binge on alcohol, pot, pills and sex..umm..really?

Either one of those legal? Anyone? Anyone? I know that there are several people out there that want to make an argument about how we "shouldn't watch" if it offends us. I got something to say to that. "You’re a piece of shit looser and you love kiddy porn. You should be arrested and executed by hanging in the square downtown so that everyone can watch you squirm in pain you dirt bag pedophile." If your mind tells you that it's entertaining, then you should seek help before you hurt someone's kid.

I have children of my own. At the point that they were born, I decided that there were certain things that they were not going to do. These things involved anything I have ever done wrong. Yeah, I know. It makes me a hypocrite, right? Well shove it pal. If anyone out there thinks it ok for kids to watch, I have a simple question for those folks: "Do you have kids?" Simple question. Because if you do, you don't want them watching it, and if you condone it, your kids should be taken away from you.

Just because a show depicts real life events or some of the situations involving drug use are things we may have done as kids, does that mean we should train our kids to think "if they did it, it is ok for us to do it"? I'm sure that there's not a single parent out there believes that. I firmly believe that I got lucky by making it out of my adolescence without a felony conviction or an addiction that I couldn't shake.

I watched this one hour show for all of 15 minutes. It was just long enough to see a girl popping pills, sneaking out in hooker clothes and having sex with a girl. This while her other friends were sharing a joint in a bathroom stall in school. Had this been adults it would have been a pretty racy snippets of film. But it's high school kids! There is no mistake by looking at them that they are truly under 18. This is what your kid may be watching in their room. This isn't HBO. It's not Cinimax. It's MTV for crying out loud. Unbelievable.

If anyone reads this and disagrees with my reasoning, I DARE you to speak up. I'll go toe-to-toe with you for a little debate on how this shit is ruining the youth of today and just exactly how your helping..

And to think that I thought for awhile there was no reason for the parental block on our DVR's. Lesson learned.

J.C.