Wine Blogging Wednesday

Today's Choice
   
Caravan Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Wonderfully structured, this wine is smooth, textured and elegant. Complex layers of blackberry, plum, and dark currant are accompanied by chocolate and coffee-bean nuances.  Toast and herbs are complimentary to the slight earthy characteristics that play off the complex fruit and soft tannins.

Around $37.00 a bottle - but oh so worth it!

So, just how far would you go to get your 15 minutes of fame? 

That seems to be  a question of the century.   If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny.  But pathetic is more like it - what others will do for a little dose of celebrity.

Take this woman who pumped out babies like they were puppies.  I'm not even going to name her....shhhh!  Don't let her name take shape across your lips - she would love that.  I think she's a real whack-job. 

I couldn't and wouldn't stomach watching the prime-time special about this mentally ill person - mostly because she is willing to trade her health and the well-being of all her children for 15 minutes of fame.  The status of her uterus is now a  docudrama and there are thousands willing to watch.  Not me.  Not after the first day of watching her touch her single pound babies and turn for the right camera shots over & over again.

I couldn't help but notice something - did you catch her perfectly manicured nails?  How does that work when your shoveling doo doo from the diapers of 8 new babies?  And just how can a new mother who doesn't work outside the home, receiving federal assistance (um - WELFARE) have the time and money for a french manicure?  She has six other kids - and 3 with  special needs?  I don't have the time for a manicure with 3 boys and a busy life, let alone the maintenance required to keep your fake nails looking good.  Truth is, there isn't much about this woman that WAS real.

Please - someone file a petition to take those babies away from this woman.  Now don't go being a hater of me.....just send me hate mail and tell me I'm not fit to judge.  I'd be fine with that.  And while you're at it, maybe you could produce a new reality show "Busting the BabyMama".  Sort of a social services dishing out social justice.  That would be a reality show I would watch.

What would you do for money and fame?  

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