you know, we as a nation really love to judge things, don't we?  i mean, we judge people of other nationalities (stupid, worthless, immigrants), people who are homosexual (just plain wrong), people who commit crimes (we're so much better than them!), people who don't have a job (lazy, homeless, poor).  we just love to pass (usually) undue judgement.  beyond other humans, we love to criticize pop culture.  movies, television, music, books, video games.  well, i got to thinking, what if we were to conglomorize our love of judging people with our love of judging the media?

imagine this, if you will: a television show that rates people's lives.  of course, to work properly, you'd have to do it at the end of a peson's life, since you can't really decide how good a movie is by the dailies, am i right?  what you'd do is get together a ton of the guy's friends after he was dead and try to find out his secrets.  then, you'd apply his various experiences to a how-good-did-you-live-o-meter (this is all early prototype).

ever done heroin?  minus ten points!
virgin? plus thirty!
own a barbara striesand album? minus twenty!
and so on and so forth.

i think it could work.  you could get siskel and roeper to come out at the end and say "two thumbs up!" or "thumb up!" or "no thumbs up!" depending on how good the person was in life.

i'd watch anyway.

breakfast this morning is mountain dew with nacho cheese combos and a snickers bar.  i am also listening to the vines album.  i like it.

does this mean i can openly criticize him in public (without the fear of being crucified) again?