Saving Your Children's Brains

Old Wahoo rejects censorship, though that belief was tested when his kids listened to a Miley Cyrus song last night. I want my kids to grow up to be smart, creative, open-minded people, and I believe in exposing them to different culture, music, art, etc. Heck, I don't mind them watching bad TV (partly because I'm lazy, and partly because I'm rediscovering Public Enemy right now), but Miss Miley is pushing it a bit far. 

I'm sure she is a fine person, but I her music begs for silence, either by turning it off or my obeying your mother. I will do both. I will turn it off, and urge my kids to listen to anything different. Menudo. Madonna. Matchbox 20. (OK, maybe not them.) 

And since my mother told me that if I can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all, I'll try to hold my tongue about "Party in the USA." Hey, I guess it's better than her dad's songs. That's not too bad, is it? 

(Warning: Some of these links will turn your brains to mush, just like the faces of those bad guys in "Raiders of the Lost Ark.")

"I'll Be There" will never be the same

With the death of Michael Jackson on Thursday, Mrs. Wahoo played some old Jackson 5 for the kids this morning. Matt loved it, but Old Wahoo started singing "I'll Be There" to Alex, who was not impressed. "That's the stupid song from the State Farm commercial," he said. 

Ah, the perils of commercialization.

P.S. Alex watched a video of the Jackson 5 on the "Today" show, and he thought it was cool that Michael was just a kid when he sang "I'll Be There"