My Sick Mind

It's here. You're watching, aren't you? C'mon, admit it, you're fascinated. "It's not television. It's birth control." The sad thing is that it is television. It's television at its worst. It's television exploiting life for its own gain. Commercial advertisements, promotion and exploitation. It's what television has become, and for them to say it's not television is a lie. Kids are "borrowing" actual children. It's not one of those cyber deals where it's like Robo-kid and they can cancel the game and start over. These are real kids with real parents - not the ones on the show - other parents who sold the kids to the show, and I can only imagine the family photo album and YouTube video that the kid will see when he's twelve. "Hey Billy, check it out. This is you when we sold you to this TV show because we had too much credit card debt and gasoline was $4 a gallon (you remember gasoline, right?) and w...

On Wednesday, NBC is treating us to a television program called The Baby Borrowers . The premise, so we're told, is that childless couples and/or teenagers are given babies to deal with for a period of time, giving them (so we're told) "a unique opportunity to peer into the future and see what they (and their partners) might be like if they remain together and decide to build a family." For three whole weeks. Now that television has run out of ways to abuse adults, they have figured a way to include children in their nonsense. The problem (among many) is that children don't have a way to defend themselves. They are at the mercy of their (so-called) parents, who apparently will sell them to television in exchange for a few dollars. NBC calls it a "social experiment" but what it really is is something more - or less depending on your viewpoint. NBC's upcoming reality series "The Baby Borrowers" is an intriguing new social experiment based o...