Warning: Avoid Steve Wilkos

I am home sick today and had the misfortune of Steve Wilkos exposure, and my condition is quickly heading south.

I had never heard of this man until 10 minutes ago and if I am ever able to go back in time, I want to go back 10 minutes and warn myself to block channel 4 from my television set. The recipe for the show seems to be as follows:

Take the worst aspects of Jerry Springer, then add Dr. Phil, then add Red Bull, then add a Cal Ripken Jr. impersonator, then give the show to Vince McMahon to produce. 

It is worse than the words you have just read express.

I have always felt that one can make certain deductions about a society by watching its daytime television. When I was in Malaysia I learned why much of the culture is stuck in the 1950s. In India, I learned that it was possible for a country to be as self obsessed as is the United States. In Britain, I learned that it is possible to continuously run the film "Patton" on a variety of networks without retribution. 

But this is too much.

If I fully understood what the very possibility of this program implies, I would be without motivation to carry forth. My life would become an endless cycle of psychiatric appointments, aggravated assault charges and ex-wives. 

Can anyone out there help me with this? 

I have never wanted to be at work so badly...