GMA

So, as I watched Good Morning America this morning, I happened to catch a segment on the latest in plastic surgery trends. Liposculpting, Doctors go in, suck out the fat, then re-inject it into places for 'enhancement'. Now you too can have a well defined six pack. Or shapely ankles. Or a bootylicious onion.

My first question is, who is it exactly that is getting these surgeries? Celebrities? They hardly count for enough of the population to make this something 'everyone is getting'.

I know a lot of people. I've lived in seven different states. I have friends in NYC, LA, everywhere in between. And never have I met anyone so vain, so shallow, so self absorbed that they would even consider having elective surgery to improve, oh say, their toe cleavage.

My second question is: is this really what Americans are spending their money on? Again, I don't know many people who have random wads of cash to blow on such things, but of course most of the people I know are struggling for their art. But in a time of hurricanes, tsunamis, famine, disease, war, corrupt government and rampant greed, people are actually spending money on this bullshit? It makes me sick.