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When your 7 year-old wants “to test a hypothesis”

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Disclaimer:  My son is adopted so I have nothing to do with his intelligence.  He is crazy smart.

The good news is that his big words are juxtaposed with imaginary and cartoon worlds, so he isn’t our own Little Man Tate.  Tonight, he wanted to test his hypothesis — HIS words — if a mobile post office car (like the ones in his train documentary videos) were added to the train on the new show, “Dinosaur Train,” would the mail be distributed faster to the dinosaurs in their dinosaur towns?  Hmmm.  He does know this is make-believe, but a show with his two favorite things, trains and dinosaurs, well, it just doesn’t get better than that.

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Kym Kardashian?

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Ok, I am a little behind on the latest Reality (which is, as Lily Tomlin said, for people who can’t deal with drugs).  I thought the Kardashians were an alien species on Star Trek: The Next Generation.  Since there was a Star Trek craze this summer (spring?), it seemed on-the-edge of reasonable.

So, now I know they have nothing to do with Star Trek, although the little I have read about them suggests that they are IN FACT an alien species.

I don’t need to watch someone else’s reality.  Mine is hard enough to follow.

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Health Care Lobbyists on Capitol Hill

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According to Bloomberg, there are FIVE lobbyists for every one member of Congress and the ratio is growing.  These lobbyists fall along the entire health care spectrum.

The burning question is:  Is this our legislative body or an episode of HBO’s Entourage?

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Newsflash: Watching TV is even worse for your kids than you think

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Apparently, not only are their minds going to mush but there is a link between blood pressure in children and their choice of TV as their inactive pastimes.

To some it may be a chicken-and-egg issue, but I am going for broke on this one to say that the brain mush-ification is causing kids to choose TV and leading to all these other bad things.

I watch cartoons with my son on weekend mornings and I was so sad when he moved from Arthur and Animalia to the Cartoon networks and WPIX.  Some serious weird stuff on those channels.  But watching this stuff prepares them for adulthood.  Look at what the average American watches:  American Idol, I am a Celebrity–Get me Out of Here, Survivor, Dance your A@@ Off, Deal or No Deal.  The real worry is that if the mushification of the brain starts too early, then by the time a person is 25, his or her brain will be liquid and pouring out of his or her ears.

Now, THAT is something to worry about.

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