Is it just me or is the E! Network the most consistently horrible channel on television? It’s bad enough that they have those creepy stalkerazzi shows, but if I see one more of those pseudo-documentaries about how wonderful rich people are I’m gonna scream. Yesterday while I was flipping through channels, I saw part of the E! True Hollywood Story on “Trust Fund Babies”. These aren’t actors or musicians or entertainers of any kind, they’re just the spoiled children of really, really rich people. So not only did this mean that the subject of this program do absolutely nothing to gain the attention they were receiving, but that I’d have to endure the overuse of the words “diva” and “socialite”. Ugh. The most maddening part of this program was that the few decent Republican tax cut recipients who had “devoted” their lives (or at least a few hours a week) to charity were treated as if having ambitions greater than getting high and screwing celebrities all the time is something worth celebrating. I know this may shock the people over at E!, but I’d be willing to bet a lot of us would do something like that if we didn’t have to spend so much time worrying about making enough cash to buy food and pay the rent. At least it wasn’t one of those 30-minute chunks of bling porn about how celebrities throw away millions of dollars on jewel-encrusted bullshit.

In other news, I was driving through downtown Los Angeles last weekend and the sidewalks of some streets were filled with homeless people trying to escape the cold. While many were stuck in cardboard boxes, the “lucky” ones had tents. I wonder how much better their lives would be if they were treated as well as, say, Paris Hilton’s dog. Oh well, as long as she doesn’t have to pay the “death tax” I’m sure everything will work out. Pass the gravy.