Isn’t the point of ABC Family to present good, relatively wholesome, programming everyone in the family can watch?  Unfortunately, ABC Family chooses present show after show featuring teenagers engaging recreational drug use, dangerous partying, and unsafe sex.  Take tonight’s offering, Falcon Beach, a kind of One Tree Hill meets Dawson’s Creek Canadian import that has, so far, presents a half dozens scenese of recreational drug use and at least one scene of unsafe sex.  This is kind of show the WB, now the CW, would air, but it is not the kind of show would expect to see on a network, even a cable network, which purports to be a family network.  If I was a parent I sure as hell would not allow my child to watch.

I may have never mentioned this, but I am an avid Yahoo user.  Even though some in the blogosphere consider it a dying breed of aggregating portals, I just love the idea having so many things right where I can easily find them; unlike Google, which basically sends you to other places.  Today, I discovered something on Yahoo that I think is great:  Donors Choose.  Basically, schools and charities list items they need or projects they need help funding.   The user can choose from a large list and decide who or what they want to help.  A good idea and a great way to harness the Internet for good.

So here I am watching the Game Show Network — yeah, I’m pathetic — specifically, The Family Feud, and these two commercials come on that I found rather stupid and disturbing.  The first one starts out asking men if they’re happy with their sex lives and proceeds on to some "testimonials" from "everyday" men discussing how much their sex lives have improved.  So I’m thinking that it’s yet another commercial for an erectile dysfunction pill, but no, it’s for Nutrisystem!  You know the company I’m talking about, where they usually feature the 40-ish mother of three walking around the grocery store in her teenie-weenie bikini.  Well, now they’re targeting men.  Telling them that if they want to improve their sex lives they should spend $300+ a month on their meals to lose weight and start getting laid on a regular basis.  Stupid!

Then, that commercial is followed up with a commercial for Stacker 2 featuring a woman and her recently-returned soldier husband talking about how she wanted to be in her best shape and have all the energy she needed to satisfy her heroic husband.  Disturbing!  What kind of message does this send to women?  That the only way they can keep their fightin’ men happy is to lose weight and have the energy to put out when her husband wants it! Shame on the makers of Stacker 2 for using our brave soldiers that way; and shame on that couple for participating.

If there was ever a reason to push us towards finding new ways of reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and oil in general, Iran is one huge reason.  Granted, I think Iran is stupid to make threats like, and more likely it’s just blustering on their part, but it still gives one pause.  Of course, we can count on the Bush Administration to make the right choice, can’t we?  Riiiight.

Apparently, our government thinks the life of an Iraqi citizens who may have been murdered by rampaging soldiers is worth…wait for it…$2,500!  Granted, that sort of money is more than any Iraqi will probably ever see, but still it’s a slap in the face to people who’ve lost their loved ones in such an horrific event.  Once again, we are living up to the biased opinion of people we were supposed to free from the brutal tyranny of Saddam Hussein.

Republicans hate Canada for a lot of reason:  all that cheap medicine, those marrying gays, those liberal attitudes.  Now, we find out the men have the best sex lives.  The bastards!

Stephen Colbert has one wicked sense or humor.  It makes me wish I watched his show.