Continued from here, where we've been talking about getting a life ...

Formulating any opinion about how far apart Angelina Jolie's children should be spaced, or anything else, is about as much your right as it would be for the guy that pumps your gas to decide he has something to say about whether or not your kids should be baptized based on what sort of car you drive.

This celebrity-life-sucking-vampire-stuff has got to stop! It's not good for you. It's not good for society in general. Plus, it's embarrassing.

If one's life isn't interesting or exciting or upsetting enough, one should not take to draining the interesting, exciting or upsetting from another like some pathetic parasitic creature incapable of anything more than dangling uselessly alongside the useful, but rather do something to create vitality in one's own day-to-day.

Imagine if the energy and resources expensed in America alone on taking normal people whose jobs put their faces in places and ramming them down the throats of everyone with a buck-fifty to spare on glossy birdcage liners were used instead for education or healthcare?

What if hours spent watching celebrity bios and reading Oprah's weight stats were instead passed volunteering to help stressed mothers or spending time with bedridden people or planting trees or raking zoo poop?

How about if folks took the time they're spending yammering on about Angelina's life, family, travel, adoptions and such on web groups and forums and instead took a course or learned a language or got themselves a pen pal?

Whatever.

Please, if ever you find yourself tempted to dip into the sleaze pool that is "star gazing", remind yourself that life is too short to spend any time building up a head of steam over things that are 1) none of your business, and 2) way beyond the scope of you ever having any real information. In other words, a complete and total waste of time and energy.

It's also simply not nice.