What to Watch When You Get Tired of Watching Jon and Kate + 8

Kate Gosselin is the mother of twins and sextuplets on the popular reality series 'Jon and Kate +8'. People either REALLY love her or they can't stand her. Her defenders are always talking about how 'real' and 'not phony' she is, whining in Kate's defense: "How would you feel if YOU had sextuplets and twins?! Think you'd be so nice all of the time with all those cameras in your face?"

What I think would be exceptionally non-phony, would be to film a show in the projects with a single guy, his 3 baby mammas, three kids each and all the accoutrement's of ghetto living. They could call it '3x3=9'.

Since at least for today, the world isn't ready for that show I have some alternative viewing ideas: National Geographic's 'Human Footprint,' and from VBS.tv I recommend 'Garbage Island.' While 'Human Footprint' is chocked full of fascinating statistics about American consumption, it is presented in an almost too gentle manner to accurately portray the situation.

'Human Footprint' traces the resource consumption and waste of an American couple throughout a lifetime. The grand finale of the show features all off these items all organized, and neatly stacked up. This part is somewhat phony because it looks nothing like human footprint I saw on the street the other day. On a recent windy trash day, the garbage man left a colorful trail of rancid broccoli, fish heads, and dog turds. That stuff is biodegradable I guess. This show just stacked up things like 7 refrigerators, 15 computers, 12 cars, artistically arranged miles of beer and pill bottles. Excluded from the imagery included dirty diapers or other yucky things people pile up over a lifetime.

It is noted that for everyone on the entire planet to consume like the average American, we would need to spread ourselves over 4 planets. This brings us back to the place where 'Human Footprint' and 'Jon and Kate + 8' intersect.