On the home shopping network tonight, a product so vile, so silly, so gay (well, i guess they aren't that insipid and evil, but wait till the first kid slips backwards, careening down onto his or her soft melon-skull and SMASH! brains all over the new, imitation 13th century Persian lamb wool rug), was being hawked, that i could scarcely believe my eyes. The hosts were highlighting the selling points of little flat plastic bits that attach over gleeful feet. They are meant to be used as skates; carpet skates. "Fun for the whole family", they said; "your children will love them!" they mused.
They sell for $29.95, down from $39.95, tonight only. They make for "great fun at a church picnic, and the Sunday school students will slide with joy." Are they insinuating that their target market will introduce flat plastic sliding feet-bits and stop focusing on the Bible? What kind of people watch the HSN anyways?
