Like this:

Do you ever find yourself sitting on your couch watching television thinking to yourself: Why are these yahoos on TV and I am on my couch?  Perhaps you are at your desk watching some YouTube video and think to yourself: Fifteen minutes of fame for this??  I do, and often.  I just don’t understand why the threshold for ‘news’ is so remarkably low.  So much so that at times it seems like we get duped by people who crave celebrity and this is no more apparent than with Nadya Suleman.  Why are we feeding this woman’s insatiable appetite for fame and fortune??  So far she has proved to be two things; certifiably crazy and a liar.  Crazy because, um….uhhh…..errrrrrrrrrrr, she had eight more babies, bringing the grand total to 14.  From day one she said she wanted to remain anonymous which is interesting given her appearance on Dateline NBC and pictures of her everywhere.  Liar liar pants on fire.  She has also recently declared that she will not date until her youngest are 18.  I would argue that there is not a man crazy enough to date a woman with 14 kids.  Who doesn’t have a job.  Who lives at home.  If he exists she can have him.

Can anything good come of this?  Perhaps American health insurance companies will adopt the policies we see in Europe, where IVF is paid for but only one embryo is implanted at a time.  This will prevent future multiple births but it does nothing for this family.  TLC doesn’t need another reality show about families with lots and lots of kids.  Will Nadya et al be relevant long enough for public outpouring to support this many mouths?  How can anybody other than Oprah support 14 kids??  And speaking of the Mighty O, even she will not indulge Suleman, good on Winfrey!!!  Perhaps Winfrey is as insulted as I am at being treated like a kid in kindergarten with blocks.  This woman is telling us partial truths in hopes of getting our support, monetary or otherwise.  Hey Nadya, while you are updating us about your last relations with men and when you expect to date again; why not answer a couple of our questions.  How does a ‘student’ on food stamps afford seven rounds of IVF?  Have you had a nose job?  Have your lips been filled with collagen?  Should Angelina Jolie be worried?  Is Single White Female your favourite movie of all time??

All kidding aside, the only Nadia worthy of our time and discussion is one Nadia Elena Comăneci.  And the only number we should be talking about is 10, as in the perfect 10 Comăneci scored at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.  ’Nuff said.

JLM

 

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