This has gone too far!

I officially hate society.

Is Cookie Monster healthful enough?



Today it's Cookie Monster who's getting all the attention on the Google Doodle as part of the big Sesame Street 40th anniversary celebration.
This had me wondering: With all the focus on the problem of childhood obesity these days, and with Michelle Obama -- a champion of healthful eating -- slated to appear on Sesame Street this season, where does Cookie Monster fit in?
Turns out Sesame Street has been trying to make the gluttonous blue monster more modest in his appetites for some time. This 2005 article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shows what Sesame Street was doing a few years ago to get Cookie Monster in line with the food pyramid. He has more recently been part of a public service announcement about healthy living,

Jesus...what bullshit. Cookie Monster was my favorite character as a kid and I'm not a fat fuck. How about parents stop allowing their kids to sit on the fucking computer for 30 hours a week??? Seriously, kids are addicted to MySpace, Facebook and all of these other networking sites. But Cookie Monster, a television puppet, is the bad guy? Sad.

Blame this blame that blah blah blah.

Until parents are raising kids again, and not hungover daycare nannies with night jobs as strippers (I know two), Xboxes, TVs, or DVDs, there will be no accountability.

Save the family institution.

Saint John wrote:Jesus...what bullshit. Cookie Monster was my favorite character as a kid and I'm not a fat fuck. How about parents stop allowing their kids to sit on the fucking computer for 30 hours a week??? Seriously, kids are addicted to MySpace, Facebook and all of these other networking sites. But Cookie Monster, a television puppet, is the bad guy? Sad.

But Dan, dont you know that the majority of parents any more are far too selfish and more concerned about themselves than what their kids are doing. T.V's and computers are the cheapest babysitters and entertainment that a parent can buy. Sports leagues are shutting down because parents have better things to do that to take little Dick or Jane to baseball/softball/soccer/hockey practices/games.

I have coached softball for the last 4 years (girls 11-12). I get regular calls from the same 3 parents, "can you pick up and drop off....." The excuses range from, shopping to having dinner with friends. We play all 4 seasons here.....this fall season, the price was actually reduced, because of some funding, and we ended up going from 10 teams to 7. In making some calls to find out why the girls were not playing the reply is generally...."my schedule wont permit it".

People are just too damn important and busy to take care of their kids anymore. Check out the wonderful food they are eating at family dinner night at McDonalds.

doka wrote:

Saint John wrote:Jesus...what bullshit. Cookie Monster was my favorite character as a kid and I'm not a fat fuck. How about parents stop allowing their kids to sit on the fucking computer for 30 hours a week??? Seriously, kids are addicted to MySpace, Facebook and all of these other networking sites. But Cookie Monster, a television puppet, is the bad guy? Sad.

But Dan, dont you know that the majority of parents any more are far too selfish and more concerned about themselves than what their kids are doing. T.V's and computers are the cheapest babysitters and entertainment that a parent can buy. Sports leagues are shutting down because parents have better things to do that to take little Dick or Jane to baseball/softball/soccer/hockey practices/games.

I have coached softball for the last 4 years (girls 11-12). I get regular calls from the same 3 parents, "can you pick up and drop off....." The excuses range from, shopping to having dinner with friends. We play all 4 seasons here.....this fall season, the price was actually reduced, because of some funding, and we ended up going from 10 teams to 7. In making some calls to find out why the girls were not playing the reply is generally...."my schedule wont permit it".

People are just too damn important and busy to take care of their kids anymore. Check out the wonderful food they are eating at family dinner night at McDonalds.

You're tellin me... I got outta my last relationship cause it was JUST like that at her house. They had a younger kid 11 years after the first and were just too busy going out drinking, sailing their boat around, and sleeping off their benders to even so much as bother to take the poor little girl to swim practice. The kids were raising the kids. I couldn't be with someone that kinda shit rubbed off on for 22 years.

Cookie Monster speaks out about the healthy agenda:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/174545/june-19-2008/cookie-monster