I may be the only person in the "civilized" world that feels this way, if the number of MSN.com and CNN headlines on the matter are any indication, but I frankly don't care that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just had their first baby together. I don't even care to look at pictures of the kid, which are somehow worth upwards of a million dollars. And I wish I could say that I only feel this way about Brangelina, but I'm ashamed to say that I really don't care all that much about the private lives of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, or even Charlie Sheen.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the attraction fans have with learning about their idols, and I realize that it's somewhat natural to want to find out more about those individuals that are part of great works that we all enjoy - films like The Lord of the Rings, The Dark Knight, and Star Wars are designed to draw you into them. I visit IMDB.com frequently so that I can find out a little bit of information about specific actors and actresses, but I really could care less about the intimate details of their lives (e.g. who they're sleeping with, who they've knocked up, and how many kids they've failed to buckle in). I'm a diehard Seattle Mariners fan, but the only things I really care about my favorite players are:

1. Have they juiced? and
2. How many hits did they have in their last game?

Did they recently have a baby? Are they engaged to a super model? I really could care less. I have enough personal issues that I have to address on a day-to-day basis without focusing on if my favorite 2nd baseman is feuding with his mother, or if he is going through a messy divorce. But I guess that is just me. Most TV shows now focus on "reality," so it's clearly evident that we're more interested in other people's lives than our own. Let's face it, focusing on other people's lives helps us to remove ourselves from our own reality and transplant it to another person's "reality" (forgetting that the reality we're watching has been conveniently edited for our viewing pleasure). Other than viewing for purely casual entertainment, that's just a reality that I refuse to accept.