Yet another justification to stop the madness

What is this madness, you ask? The madness of overindulgence of today's children. Indulgence is one thing. My friend Teresa takes her daughter to the book store any time she wants to go and buys books for her. She doesn't like to go to the library because she very often wants to read the same book again and again. That's indulgence.

However, the child who has a GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, GameCube, Xbox...do you know what junior is getting for Christmas this year? A Wii, yet another game system. That would total approximately $2,000 in game systems alone. Never mind the games, memory cards, multiple controllers, etc. No child needs a toy, a single toy, that is over $200. And that is generous!! Do you know why the Wii is $250? Because we pay that for it. Do you think that if the consumer would stop paying that much money the price would come down? Duh.

But I digress.

The story in today's paper that caught my eye is that today's children are getting rickets.

RICKETS!

Freaking RICKETS.

All all because of what the reporter called the "anti-bone trifecta": not enough milk, not enough sunshine and not enough exercise.

I'm too disgusted to continue my rant at the moment. I may have to go out and sit in my van so I can watch a movie on the DVD player. NOT.

More tomorrow, after my Zoloft kicks in.

And maybe a damn martini.

Rickets, for goodness sakes.