Stopped to wash the car and get the oil changed. In the lobby, we were under assault from the Maury Show – OMG, the humanity of it all. Can the people who watch this be so unfathomably stupid? This kind of broadcast tragedy is more vulgar and violent than the worst war pictures, and yet every lawyer promising to help the drunken wife-beaters sees an audience to advertise to, as does every trade school promising the misfit viewers the chance to work in the vacation industry in exotic locations either serving drinks, massaging fat ladies, or fixing the air conditioning.