Something needs to be said...

...about that Jojo song that gets played 5 times an hour on the radio, and its accompanying video, even more over-played. Jojo appears about 12 years old, maybe 13, and the song is about anticipating the desolate, hopeless wasteland that is the aftermath of junior-high love gone afoul. It's very easy to blame the music industry for producing this sort of thing, but the fact of the matter is that it's the public's fault for consuming it. (H.L. Mencken, were you ever wrong about anything? [German nationalism--ed.]) People who purchase this stuff, or ask for it on music request shows, should be tortured to death. Jojo might not be quite as huge an insult to every talented but struggling musician who has ever lived as, say, William Hung, but she's close.

While I'm on this subject, what the fuck is up with the recent (last 18 months or so) upswing in sexualization of underage girls. Back in the good ol' days when Britney, Christina, and Jessica were first breaking out, they merely hinted at inviting grown men to commit statutory rape. The celebrity status of the new class is almost exclusively predicated on flaunting their jail-baitness. Linsey Lohan's license plate (an accessory to her new tits, I think) reads "ILLEGALL" [sic], for fuck's sake. What are we turning into, this? I don't think I'm much of a cultural conservative, but I also don't think it's too hard to figure out what the effect of this stuff will be on even younger teenaged girls. ["Will be?" My friend's little sister's 8th grade class is divided into the BJ group and the non-BJ group. She's in the non-BJ group (or so she told him).--ed.]

On the upside, this phenomenon gives me a reason to get even bigger muscles and more tattoos (assuming I will have a daughter one day): to scare the shit out of any scumbag little pricks who would want to lay a finger on her.