Ahh, yes. Just when I really need a vacation. Just when I’m looking for someone to be mean too, for an excuse to be all grumpy, it’s handed to me on a silver platter.

Once again, the hypocrisy of the Republican party, starting with the moron leading the pack, our very own President, is just outrageous.

Think back, way back, deep into your memory from years ago when this man residing in the White House, acted like a good Republican, and spread his family values around town by means of leaving no child behind.

Yes, how very Republican to care about children and their growth and development. It’s so obvious how much the Republican party cares about children and families – I mean, our federal policy for maternity leave ranks what, third lowest in the world, before some under developed African nations. How many children and mothers live below the poverty line and have no access to housing and health-care? Let alone education.

And yet, this man stands up and claims that he cares about education, he cares about family values. Better not let anyone have access to abortion, better not let teens have access to condoms – let’s instead focus on religion and God….

BUT – let’s also do away with funding for PBS – let’s take away Sesame Street – because we care about kids and values.

Seriously.

Again – who voted for this man, and can you tell me why? And actually face yourself in the mirror with any dignity when you do?

Not only do kids across the United States adore the characters on Sesame Street and actually learn by watching it, kids around the world benefit from this programming. While our President is busy sending Karen Hughes around the world in a failed attempt at mending fences and spreading democracy, Sesame Street is being watched on television screens across the Middle East and providing some level of education for little girls and boys. Not to mention, leaving behind a positive impression of what comes out of America. Is it possible that Big Bird is a better diplomat than Karen Hughes? I think so.

Click here if you’re interested in a posting from USAID’s site about Sesame Street in Egypt, a country where millions of poor little girls only receive three years of education. Sesame Street is viewed by almost 90% of children in those rural areas, providing them with an invaluable opportunity to learn: http://www.usaid.gov/stories/egypt/ss_egypt1.html

Once again, our president is talking out of both sides of his mouth. His family values clearly means – let’s cut educational programming and funding for kids across the country and the world.

Unless you are really in an even worse mood than me, I encourage you to click here and sign the petition to keep the funding for PBS and Sesame Street:

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/momsrising/signUp.jsp?key=2004

Dedicated KT readers will recall a posting where I lambasted some moron on the Today Show who declared “Hair is Biblical.”

And while I stand by how useless and embarrassing that particular piece was, we all can agree that a woman’s relationship with her hair is significant.

It’s true. We’ve all done this. We’ve all chopped our hair, dyed our hair, layered our hair, asked for bangs, or cut our bangs – as a reaction to something. Did your boyfriend just breakup with you? Did you just get fired? Did you just grow your hair out for your wedding and the next day, chop it because you just can’t take it one second longer?

We’ve all done it. Doing something drastic with your hair is a way to make an immediate change in your life when you really need it – be it for a good reason or a bad one.

Kitty Time believes that we make the most dramatic changes in our hair when something negative has happened. It is a way to control something and fix it – right?

While it’s not a biblical relationship, per say, a woman’s relationship with her hair reveals a lot about her and her current state of mind.

Which brings me to Britney.

By now, we all know that she shaved her head and clearly wanted the cameras to capture her new look on Friday night.

Brit is no Sinead O’Connor. She did not shave her head to stand for something, to belt out against the Church. She’s also not Kylie Minogue – she is not staring down breast cancer and fighting it with every ounce of her being.

She is a baby who is spinning out of control and just clearly needed to do something. Did she do it for attention? Did she do it to throw her sexuality and all the ways her managers try to control her image – right in their face? Did she do it because she was all hopped up on Mountain Dew? Or something a little stronger….

It’s possible.

But the point is – she did it and being a woman, we all know she did it for a reason.  And it’s pretty safe to assume she’s in a terrible place mentally.

Now – don’t go thinking that I’ve changed my tune and am no longer criticizing her, like I was on Friday.

What I’m really getting at here is that she is a baby who has two babies.

She has been acting out for months and while we’ve all gobbled it up and dished about it, along the way, there are two babies involved. Where is Jayden James, anyway? Again – we still haven’t really seen a picture of him.

And what about little Sean P?

We all might like KFed a little more now than we did before, but let’s not forget, he is still the father of those babies (and two more, at that). So far, he’s not on track to win any fatherhood of the year awards.

So really – what Britney represents – is the danger of babies having babies.

And where the hell is her mother in all of this?

Sometimes hair really can be a window into the health of our soul and our minds, as trite as it sounds. Right now, I’m looking in Brit’s window and not seeing her happy place. I really don’t care about her but the idea of two little babies being lost out there in the midst of all this – weighs heavily on my heart.