October 6, 2010: If it's so damn cold outside, why the hell are you wearing that!

Today was a typical California winter, as in, it rained. And as expected we had the horrible drivers, but that's for another day.

What really got me today was watching a woman walking her kids in a stroller while they were dressed in clothes meant for summer! I understand that it's "Mommy's right" to dress the kinds until they're five or six in whatever the hell she wants. But since when is a tutu appropriate attire for cold, muggy, rain? You may be working out pushing that two seated stroller around town, but their little butts aren't!

This is a perfect example of Mommy pretending her kids are dolls, dressing them up in whatever cute little outfit she wants to see them in. While I'm not against dressing up your kids in cute outfits, I feel like you've just crossed the line from responsible parent to sixteen year old idiot. If it's cold outside, you would dress yourself appropriately, wouldn't you? You would wear pants, a sweater or jacket, and maybe a scarf or gloves if you're into that. Why? Because it's cold outside! So why do you think it's a good idea to put a tulle tutu skirt on your kid? Why isn't your infant wearing a hat? Those little bodies are more sensitive to temperature than you are.

Use your heads when you dress your kids, please. For their shivery little sakes.

Love, Polly.

September 30, 2010: May you live in interesting times

Right now, we have our pokers in so many things that it would be impossible to not live in truly interesting times. Sorry ancient Chinese proverb writer, your curse is no longer effective because living in interesting times has become the norm. Maybe we should start cursing each other with, "May you live in boring times" until that becomes normal. But because we're all idiots, this generation is going to take culture and society as we know it to hell in a hand basket. Instead of engorging our minds with things that will stimulate it we spend our time watching things like, "The Real Housewives of..." or "Keeping up with the Kardashians". I don't understand how we can be appalled that other countries are exceeding us intellectually when that is the kind of shit we watch and mimic our lives after. What are you thinking, America?

Old folks are actually great to look at as an example of where we are going wrong. Why doesn't anyone do cross word puzzles, read real news (not things that can be found on Fark.com), play chess, or hold debates? Are those things so outdated? Maybe do a sudoku once a week or something, those were trendy not too long ago. We no longer force ourselves to exceed, and are becoming stupider by the day as a general public while the world is becoming more and more interesting around us.

We don't give a shit about the world around us and the mysteries that we're uncovering. And do you know why? Because the brilliant scientist who did some gene therapy with a plant and changed it's entire lifestyle has no clue what Prada or Gucci cost and will probably never purchase them. But you know who does love Prada / Gucci / Designer's Name Here? Whatever big breasted, empty headed reality show TV star is the new "It girl".

Use your brains or they'll go to waste. We are living in interesting times, that are unfortunately completely unbeknownst to us right now. And if we continue not giving a shit about these things, some day when the sun implodes we are going to wish we kept making this fantastic strides. But it will be too late, and life as we know and accept it is going to be over. And when the interesting times as they are now end, the interesting times as they will be then are going to interesting in a way that we wish they weren't.

Love, Polly.