NBC4 was running probably one of the most bonehead news pieces yesterday that they were promoting the hell out of. The dangers of children riding on ATVs! I mean, really, if you're that evolutionarly stunted to think its a good idea to let your 6 year old get on an ATV, well, then probably its best that your genes don't get reintroduced into the gene pool. Liz Crenshaw must've been having a slow newsday to think up that piece, or her producer. I usually prefer it when she does the "does it really do that?" pieces that test out those "As Seen on TV!" products. Like, does the Sweep N Mop really work? And do we really get a free lifetime supply of replacement heads?

What cracked the wife up though on what happened last night on the eleven o'clock news. She also made it a point for me to point out in my blog since it involved her favorite love-to-hate local weatherman, Bob Ryan. They were going to commercial with lead-out of the "Adult ATV" story coming right up, and Bob, how's the weather coming along? "Talk about Adult! We've got some adult weather coming to you too!" Flash to George Michael about to go into his "coming up in sports" but then instead, we got a confused and I'm paraphrasing, "what the hell are you talking about Bob?" To which Bob Ryan tried to salvage by fumbling around and saying, "Uh, well I was trying to keep with the theme!" Cue the wife's schadenfreude.