If you know me – you know I tend to anger easily. Stupidity, ignorance and the basic state of our world often piss me off. I’ve learned to generally get over each instance pretty quickly. Occasionally however, certain events come up to really make a statement to sum up just how fucked up most of what we view as our world really is.Two popular news stories are basically criminalizing recent heroes.Michael Phelps – he of the recent 8 Olympic Gold Medals, and Alex Rodriquez – the presumptive future “clean” Home Run King of major League Baseball. (Alright – not too many people, even ardent Yankee fans consider A-Rod a “hero” but you can’t deny his obvious talent)I’ll bother you with my inconsequential views on each in other postings – today I need to bother you with the story that is both disgusting and infuriating all in one.

That horror show recently revealed from California – dubbed most commonly as “The Octuplets Mom”. Now this one has been stuck in my craw for a few weeks since the media first started covering it. First off, there’s the ethics involved.

Science now provides people who desire children, yet who experience certain difficulties in conceiving a number of options. Invitro is one of them and a profound discovery. However, like in any relatively new scientific breakthrough, it is not without certain flaws, or side effects for that matter. Often, multiple births are among the chances that can be realized through the procedure. Folks who have tried and proven unsuccessful in other methods often choose this potential risk in exchange for the possibility of a pregnancy.

Terrific technology, particularly for child-less couples who desperately desire to be parents. If those who are able to enlist this technology into their practice are going to be granted the skill to do so, shouldn’t they first be asked to answer a few queries into their level of ethics? Methinks that the Beverly Hills quack who gladly offered this option to the horribly delusional unemployed mother of six would have failed that test miserably.

What sort of an argument can be made that this psychopathic moron deserved to receive the treatment? Any explanation, Dr. Litter can offer would no doubt shine him in only a negative light.

Here’s a single mother, on food stamps, only 33 but six kids already. Three of them receive state aid because they’re “disabled” of $793.00 per month, from California. Why is the state important? Because, it’s California, and it’s bankrupt. They have no money and have to borrow from the Fed at an interest rate too prohibitive to be paid back in full, ever. So, effectively, it’s you and me paying for those damned kids. Now, she’s squirted out another eight. With the low birth weight and drug induced inceptions, figure there’s going to be at least five of the litter who qualify as “disabled” in California. So there’s another $3965.00 per month for the future “Mother of the Year” who’s now taking in about six grand a month in subsidy from the state, plus about $1600 per month in food stamps.

Oh, and she’s a full time student, using government backed student loans for the next year or two until she’s able to graduate, and hopefully find herself a job.

Seems reasonable to think that she can raise 14 kids in a two-bedroom house with that sort of background.

Historically, the media has always loved these stories of multiple births.  “The Jackson 5”, “The Clarke Sextuplets”, “The September Septuplets”…all those regular families made into instant celebrities. This time however, I’m happy to see, that at least some media types are exposing this horror show for the rancid reality that it is.

Let’s not be mistaking this woman’s mental illness as a reality show opportunity. This is not something to be celebrated. Left to fend for themselves, there’s no doubt that half of that brood would not live to see their teens. I don’t trust that the lunatic mother doesn’t go ape-shit mental rather quickly.

No matter what the end game reads out for this situation, one truth is constant, in that in the long run, we’ll pay for it. Too often there has been no regard for the long term cost for virtually any decision we make, or worse, allow to get made. The sense of entitlement that this mother feels, and lack of responsibility attached to it unfortunately represent too high a percentage of the personality of this country. The lack of ethics and responsibility of the physician represent the materialistic ideals society has inflicted upon each of us. The combination of these effects obviously can only result in one inevitable conclusion.  We’re fucked.