Modern Day Freak Show

Just the other day I found myself proclaiming loudly "What
the hell happened to TLC?" I waited a few minutes for a response
then sadly realized that once again I was alone and talking to
myself. But really, what has this station become? The answer: a
modern day freak show. They can dress it up all they want, but they
can't hide the fact that more than half of their programming calls
out to the lowest form of our human nature. First off, the midget
shows. And yes, I refuse to use the politically correct term
"little people", even though TLC trys to shove it down our throat.
They put this on because we all love to stare at midgets, but even
I have my limits. First a family of midgets, then midgets having a
baby. Now midgets who run a chocolate shop! Are they trying to set
me up for an Oompa Loompa joke? If that wasn't enough, there is
also several family reality shows. And by family, I mean a couple
with an unaturally large litter of children. First we had he
pleasure of John and Kate. After a season or two of emasculation
that relationship ended as well as the show. So now we have the
creepy uber-Christian family The Duggards and "Table for 12." I
just don't get these. Where are the midgets? Oh, and don't forget
the antithesis of these, "I Didn't Know I was Pregnant", which
chronicles white trash women who think they have indigestion for 9
months. In closing, I think TLC should be forced to change their
name. I have never felt like I have learned anything watching it,
except that there are people in the world who weigh more than a car
and that whales can explode. In fact I think I am now dumber for
even writing about it.