I am watching "Good Morning America." Charles Gibson, one of those reporters whose swallow eyes always betrays the selling of their souls is about to begin the first big story of the day. It is a follow-up story about two women, twins, who first appeared on the show several months to talk about the life-changing, radical surgery they were about to perform. They were going to use lasers to make their faces look younger. The "revolutionary" method they were using was a way of fighting off aging without having to go under the knife or shot oneself up with bacteria to kill off all the facial nerves.

At first, we see the twins before, the surgery in all their middle-aged frumpiness. As Gibson breathlessly recounts their saga, as if the two women had managed to somehow climb down Everest in order to stave off frostbite, Gibson recounts how the two women spent every other week flying from New York to Florida and back to have their surgery done over the past couple of months. And now, today, is the day we get to see the results.

The camera pulls back to reveal the studio. With a large American flag in the background, the younger looking, positively glowing women are shown, smiles all around. With them is there doctor and an author of a book on the surgical methods, one of those books titled something along the lines of "Your Life Sucks if You Don't Look Young" or "Stop Being a Loser by Changing Your Face."

As the interview commences, I watch the news scroll on the bottom of the screen. More terrorist fun in the Middle East, the U.N. building in Iraq having been blown up by a truck bomb. There's bombings in Morocco too and fighting in Afghanistan. Charles tells the women how wonderful they look just as the scroll starts reporting about the inevitability of more power-outages. Also, in Phoenix, a city built in the middle of a desert, the mayor is pleading with the citizen's of his fair city to try and conserve on gas for their SUV's as there's a serious shortage going on. The doctor meanwhile makes his pitch that every woman should try this method of surgery and the women whole-heartedly agree.

Later today, I read that there's another suicide bombing in Jerusalem and the U.N. Diplomat to Iraq has been killed in the bombing in Baghdad.