Angry Old Man Rant #2

So, my 16-year old cousin from Hawaii is in town with us for several weeks during the summer. This is not a rant about relatives visiting for extended periods of time...he's a good kid, so no problems there.

However, early one evening I walked in from work and my cousin was asleep on the sofa with the television on. I wasn't really paying attention to what channel it was on, but then suddenly, I hear this guy say something about "talking about sex in front of your parents" and my ears perked up. He then went on to say some moderately surprising things about sex (the details of which I honestly don't remember, but I do recall being surprised at what I was hearing). The thing of it was that I was hearing these things at 7pm at night. I wondered what channel this was on and discovered that the bastion of pop culture, MTV, was the station.

Now, the prude in me is gonna come out here. Do I really need to have (as I would soon discover) relationship expert Dr. Drew explaining sex to teenagers at 7pm in the evening. Okay, I can understand if you put the show on at 10pm, but 7pm? Really?

Whether it be talking about sex or Sacha Baron Cohen's bare ass tipping precariously close to Eminem's face during the MTV Movie Awards (let's not even get into discussing that Twilight-fest), MTV is the epitome of what is wrong with youth and the values they covet.

In this "me-me-me" culture, MTV does all it can to promote wrecklessness (this is the station thought made Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass buddies stars for 15 minutes)...I could go onto the rant about "Where's the music," but I'll save that for another day.

As a matter of fact, I think I may examine this station a little closer. So, for the time being, this is really just a "surface rant." I haven't dug deep enough here to prove my point. Maybe sometime in the near future I may watch a day of MTV and see what I learn. Will I learn about my parents' first sexual encounter (because Dr. Drew said I would if I watched his show)? And, if I did become knowledgeable about such a thing, would I tear off my ears and gouge out my eyes after I learned it?

FYI...No MTV in the most Magical Place on Earth...they know better...