In the Name of Tila Tequila

If only Karl Marx’s theory that religion was the “opiate of the masses” still rang true. That would make my parents happy at least.  Instead, it seems that Reality Television has muscled God aside as a placating, if not mind-numbing, device for the rabble, and no one sits higher on the proverbial pulpit right now than Tila Tequila.  Her MTV show, “A Shot at Love”, raked in viewers during its first season all the way to the final episode, in which the bi-sexual siren promised her heart to a man, Bobby Banhart, over a woman was one of the channel’s highest rated of the year.  So it’s no surprise that MTV is bringing back A Shot at Love for another year—not because of the promise of oodles of advertising dollars, mind you, but as a source at the station suggested, to give Tila another chance at finding a soul-mate.  Alas, she and Mr. Barnhart, after not seeing each other for several months following the airing of the last show, have parted romantic ways.  While it’s rather meaningless to point out hypocrisy in such a vapid medium (like handing out soy snacks at a slaughter house), still we feel amiss not to mention (again) that Ms. Tequila is rumored to have a long-term steady (a guy, no less) hidden away somewhere (the MTV version of the Witness Protection Program).  But please let that not stop you from tuning in when the series starts up again—it is called faith, you know.