Am I the only one who thinks the media obsession with celebrity babies is a little creepy?  Apparently Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to be selling the first pictures of their new twins to some magazine for 11-20 million dollars.  To their credit, they’re only being good little capitalists.  If the market has determined that baby pictures are worth millions, they might as well utilize it, right?  Besides, they will almost certainly donate that money to charity.

The scary part isn’t that the parents are willing to capitalize on this crap…it’s that the demand exists in the first place.  Are Americans really so pathetic that they actually clamor to simply see something that came out of a famous person’s uterus?  Don’t all babies pretty much look like this, anyway?

I’m sick of the rationalization of celebrity worship, too.  Every time some piece of shit with a camera harasses a star while they take the trash out, we say that it’s just part of the job.  Celebrities should, in fact, even enjoy the violations of peace and privacy because they chose to create art for a living.  It just means that they’re important, right?

That’s complete bullshit and anyone who disagrees is an idiot.  Nobody deserves to be constantly stalked just because of their profession.  All TMZ-style paparazzi should be shot.  As should anyone still referring to couples by combining their first names, à la “Brangelina.”