Yee-Haw! Another Notch in Jim Bob's Belt: Friday's Rant

Well, well, well.  Big news today.  I see Michelle and Jim Bob just gave birth to their 18th child.  Let me just be the first to say, good grief.  It's hard for me to be too critical, I guess - they're not on welfare, they don't beat their kids and their not asking for handouts (that I know of).  But seriously, people.  This isn't the 18th century.  You don't need 18 stinkin' kids.

I have a $5 bill that says they maintain a sweatshop in their basement producing knock-off Metallica concert t-shirts.

I still remember the interview of the mom where the reporter was like, "How many kids are you going to have?"  Mama Dugger replies, "As many as God wants me to!"  True enough, I guess.  But it kind of makes me wonder if somebody needs to have "the talk" with her.  The reporter sat their with a blank look on her face like, "you're insane."  

Anyway, I'm not sure why it annoys me.  But it does.  I guess more than anything, I'm tired of these people exploiting their families just to squeeze one more season out of their POINTLESS reality show.  Thanks to our good friends at google, I learned that this woman had her 17th kid in August 2007.  She's now had her 18th kid 16 short months later - just enough time to film the latest season. 

On a related note, we recently submitted the storyline for our new show - "The Iowa Blog Cabin Presents:  Anne 'n' Jase Plus One."  The pilot episode revolves around Anne doing the dishes, me scooping the snow and both of us fighting about who's going to change a crappy diaper while ol' Coll cries.  I have no doubt it will be a hit. 

I digress...But guess what!?  The oldest Duggar kid just got married!  Please standby for grandkids to appear sometime in the next year.  That'll be good for another season.  Mark my words.  I used my fingers and toes to calculate it - if 18 kids have 18 kids each, that is the potential for 324 grandkids.  In the sweatshop biz, that's pure gold. 

The skin crawls.

Breathe in, breathe out...this week's rant is over.